AWS Firewall Manager is closely linked with AWS WAF and is accessed from within the same dashboard within the AWS Management Console. AWS Firewall Manager allows you to manage WAF rules across a multi-account environment when using AWS Organizations.
If, for example, you had a number of CloudFront distributions across multiple accounts, it would be administratively heavy if you had to create your rules within each AWS account where you wanted to utilize the benefits of AWS WAF. Instead, with AWS Firewall Manager, you can centrally organize and manage your AWS WAF rulesets from a single console. One key benefit of the service is that it will protect your resources automatically as and when they are provisioned.
To enable you to utilize AWS Firewall Manager, you need to carry out a number of steps first. These include the following:
- Adding your AWS...
