AWS WAF enhances integration with Service Quotas

AWS WAF enhances Service Quotas capabilities, enabling organizations to proactively monitor and manage quotas for their cloud deployments.

AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications or APIs against common web exploits and bots that may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. By leveraging AWS Service Quotas, you can quickly understand your applied service quota values for these WAF resources and request increases when needed. This enhanced integration brings three key benefits. First, you can now monitor the current utilization of your account-level quotas for WAF resources such as web ACLs, rule groups, and IP sets in the Service Quotas console. Second, certain service quota increase requests will now be auto-approved, enabling customers to access higher quotas faster. For example, smaller increases are usually automatically approved while larger requests are submitted to AWS Support. Lastly, you can now create Amazon CloudWatch alarms to notify you when your utilization of a given quota exceeds a configurable threshold. This enables you to better adapt your utilization based on your applied quota values and automate your quota increase requests.

You can access AWS Service Quotas through the AWS console, AWS APIs, and CLI. Integration with AWS Service Quotas is available in all AWS regions where AWS WAF is offered. You can learn more about AWS WAF by visiting Developer Guide.