Step 2: Create and apply a Shield Advanced policy

To create a Firewall Manager Shield Advanced policy (console)

1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console using your Firewall Manager administrator account, and then open the Firewall Manager console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/wafv2/fmsv2. For information about setting up a Firewall Manager administrator account, see Amazon Firewall Manager prerequisites.

   Note

   For information about setting up a Firewall Manager administrator account, see Amazon Firewall Manager prerequisites.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Security policies.

3. Choose Create policy.

4. For Policy type, choose Shield Advanced.

   To create a Shield Advanced policy, your Firewall Manager administrator account must be subscribed to Shield Advanced. If you are not subscribed, you are prompted to do so. For information about the cost for subscribing, see Amazon Shield Advanced Pricing.

   Note

   You don't need to manually subscribe each member account to Shield Advanced. Firewall Manager does this for you when it creates the policy. Each account must remain subscribed for Firewall Manager and Shield Advanced to continue to protect resources in the account.

5. For Region, choose an Amazon Web Services Region. To protect Amazon CloudFront resources, choose Global.

   To protect resources in multiple Regions (other than CloudFront resources), you must create separate Firewall Manager policies for each Region.

6. Choose Next.

7. For Name, enter a descriptive name.

8. (Global Region only) For Global Region policies, you can choose whether you want to manage Shield Advanced automatic application layer DDoS mitigation. For this tutorial, leave this choice at the default setting of Ignore.

9. For Policy action, choose the option that doesn't automatically remediate.

10. Choose Next.

11. Amazon Web Services accounts this policy applies to allows you to narrow the scope of your policy by specifying accounts to include or exclude. For this tutorial, choose Include all accounts under my organization.

12. Choose the types of resources that you want to protect.

    Firewall Manager doesn't support Amazon Route 53 or Amazon Global Accelerator. If you need to protect these resources with Shield Advanced, you can't use a Firewall Manager policy. Instead, follow the Shield Advanced guidance at Adding Amazon Shield Advanced protection to Amazon resources.

13. For Resources, you can narrow the scope of the policy using tagging, by either including or excluding resources with the tags that you specify. You can use inclusion or exclusion, and not both. For more information about tags, see Working with Tag Editor.

    If you enter more than one tag, a resource must have all of the tags to be included or excluded.

    Resource tags can only have non-null values. If you omit the value for a tag, Firewall Manager saves the tag with an empty string value: "". Resource tags only match with tags that have the same key and the same value.

14. Choose Next.

15. For Policy tags, add any identifying tags that you want to add to the Firewall Manager policy resource. For more information about tags, see Working with Tag Editor.

16. Choose Next.

17. Review the new policy settings and return to any pages where you need to any adjustments.

    Check to be sure that Policy actions is set to Identify resources that don’t comply with the policy rules, but don’t auto remediate. This allows you to review the changes that your policy would make before you enable them.

18. When you are satisfied with the policy, choose Create policy.

    In the Amazon Firewall Manager policies pane, your policy should be listed. It will probably indicate Pending under the accounts headings and it will indicate the status of the Automatic remediation setting. The creation of a policy can take several minutes. After the Pending status is replaced with account counts, you can choose the policy name to explore the compliance status of the accounts and resources. For information, see Viewing compliance information for an Amazon Firewall Manager policy