Introducing Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Advanced

Today, AWS announced Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Advanced, a new set of capabilities on Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall that allow you to monitor and block suspicious DNS traffic associated with advanced DNS threats, such as DNS tunneling and Domain Generation Algorithms (DGAs), that are designed to avoid detection by threat intelligence feeds or are difficult for threat intelligence feeds alone to track and block in time.

Today, Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall helps you block DNS queries made for domains identified as low-reputation or suspected to be malicious, and to allow queries for trusted domains. With DNS Firewall Advanced, you can now enforce additional protections that monitor and block your DNS traffic in real-time based on anomalies identified in the domain names being queried from your VPCs.To get started, you can configure one or multiple DNS Firewall Advanced rule(s), specifying the type of threat (DGA, DNS tunneling) to be inspected. You can add the rule(s) to a DNS Firewall rule group, and enforce it on your VPCs by associating the rule group to each desired VPC directly or by using AWS Firewall Manager, AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM), AWS CloudFormation, or Route 53 Profiles.

Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Advanced is available in all AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more about the new capabilities and the pricing, visit the Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall webpage and the Route 53 pricing page. To get started, visit the Route 53 documentation.