Overview of the standard deployments for Amazon Managed Rules - Amazon WAF, Amazon Firewall Manager, Amazon Shield Advanced, and Amazon Shield network security director
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Introducing a new console experience for Amazon WAF

You can now use the updated experience to access Amazon WAF functionality anywhere in the console. For more details, see Working with the updated console experience.

Overview of the standard deployments for Amazon Managed Rules

Amazon rolls out new Amazon Managed Rules functionality using three standard deployment stages: release candidate, static version, and default version.

The following diagram depicts these standard deployments. Each is described in more detail in the sections that follow.

Four vertical swimlanes show different standard deployment stages. The leftmost swimlane shows the default version set to the recommended static version 1.4. The second swimlane shows the default set to a release candidate (RC) version for testing and tuning. The RC version contains 1.4 rules and RC rules. A note indicates that after testing, the default is returned to the recommended static version. The third swimlane shows the creation of a static version 1.5 from the rules in the release candidate version. The fourth swimlane shows the default version set to the new recommended static version 1.5.