**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 console](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/waf/latest/developerguide/working-with-console.html). 

# Sharing a rule group
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You can share a rule group with other acccounts, for use by those accounts. 

**Sharing a rule group**  
You can share with one or more specific accounts, and you can share with all accounts in an organization. 

To share a rule group, you use the Amazon WAF API to create a policy for the rule group sharing that you want. For more information, see [PutPermissionPolicy](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/waf/latest/APIReference/API_PutPermissionPolicy.html) in the *Amazon WAF API Reference*.

**Using a rule group that's been shared with you**  
If a rule group has been shared with your account, you can access it through the API and you can reference it when you create or update your protection packs (web ACLs) through the API. For more information, see [GetRuleGroup](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/waf/latest/APIReference/API_GetRuleGroup.html), [CreateWebACL](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/waf/latest/APIReference/API_CreateWebACL.html), and [UpdateWebACL](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/waf/latest/APIReference/API_UpdateWebACL.html) in the *Amazon WAF API Reference*. Rule groups that are shared with you don't appear in your Amazon WAF console rule groups listing.