Retrieving the rules in a managed rule group - 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.

Retrieving the rules in a managed rule group

You can retrieve a list of the rules in a managed rule group. The API and CLI calls return the rules specifications that you can reference in the JSON model or through Amazon CloudFormation.

To retrieve the list of rules in a managed rule group

  • Console

    • (Option) When you add the managed rules group to your protection pack or web ACL, you can choose Edit to view the rules.

    • (Option) After you've added the managed rule group into your protection pack or web ACL, from the protection pack or web ACLs page, choose the protection pack or web ACL you just created. This takes you to the protection pack or web ACL edit page.

      • Choose Rules.

      • Select the rule group you want to see a rules list for, then choose Edit. Amazon WAF shows the list of rules in the rule group.

  • API – DescribeManagedRuleGroup

  • CLI – aws wafv2 describe-managed-rule-group --scope=<CLOUDFRONT|REGIONAL> --vendor-name <vendor> --name <managedrule_name>