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Using AWS Global Accelerator With AWS WAF

Difficulty: Beginner
Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes
Students: 51
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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

Intended audience

  • Candidates for the AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty certification
  • Cloud Architects
  • DevOps Engineers
  • Software Engineers

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:

  • AWS Global Accelerator
  • AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)
  • Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:

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Covered topics

Networking
Management
Security
Compute
High Availability
Amazon Web Services
Networking for AWS
Security for AWS
Compute for AWS
Management for AWS
Elastic Load Balancing
AWS WAF
AWS Global Accelerator
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  1. Logging In to the Amazon Web Services Console
  2. Creating an Application Load Balancer
  3. Associating AWS WAF With a Load Balancer
  4. Creating an AWS Global Accelerator Endpoint

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