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How to mitigate bot traffic by implementing Challenge actions in your AWS WAF custom rules
- AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps you protect against common web exploits and bots that can affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.
- Challenge actions is useful for detecting requests from automated tools without affecting the user experience.
- Properly handling bot traffic can reduce the impact, which can help you optimize costs and improve the stability of your infrastructure and the availability of your business.
- Implementing Challenge actions through a custom rule is a cost-effective way of using this action to help you reduce the impact of bot traffic in your applications.
- Option 1: Implementing the Challenge action through a custom rule involves defining the expected normal behaviors of the users who access your app.
- Option 2: Implementing the Challenge action by using Bot Control in AWS WAF is an easier, more robust and flexible solution than using a custom rule.
- Bot Control is a managed rules group that provides improved visibility and automated detection and mitigation mechanisms for bots.
- As your cloud infrastructure grows, you need to start managing your protection at scale and centrally. AWS Firewall Manager provides you with a single place to centrally configure, manage, and monitor your AWS WAF firewall, AWS Shield Advanced protections, and more.
- This blog covers the basics of using the Bot Control feature to implement Challenge actions as a more sophisticated and robust option.
- By implementing Challenge actions through a custom rule, you can set up basic, cost-effective measures to handle basic bots and control automated traffic to your applications.
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