hands-on lab

Using AWS Global Accelerator With AWS WAF

Difficulty: Beginner

Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes

Students: 27

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Description

AWS Global Accelerator is a service you can use to reduce the latency of your applications for your users by using the AWS global network. It directs traffic to the optimal endpoint based on the health of your applications and the location of your users. AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) can be used in conjunction with AWS Global Accelerator to protect your applications from common web exploits.

Learning how to use AWS Global Accelerator will help anyone looking to deploy secure and globally scalable applications in the public AWS cloud.

In this hands-on lab, you will create an Application Load Balancer, associate an AWS WAF Web ACL with the load balancer, and create an AWS Global Accelerator endpoint for the load balancer.

Please note: This lab involves deploying an AWS Global Accelerator, which can take up to ten minutes to complete. Please ensure you have enough time available before starting the lab.

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this beginner-level lab, you will be able to:

Create an Application Load Balancer
Create an IP set rule in AWS WAF
Associate an AWS WAF Web ACL with an Application Load Balancer
Create and configure an AWS Global Accelerator for use with an Application Load Balancer