AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain)

Starting today, AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced are available in two new regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain).

AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications from common web exploits that could affect application availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. AWS WAF gives you control over which traffic to allow or block to your web applications by defining customizable web security rules. AWS WAF can be deployed on Amazon CloudFront, Application Load Balancer, and Amazon API Gateway. To learn more visit the detailed page here.

AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards web applications running on AWS. AWS Shield provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency, so there is no need to engage AWS Support to benefit from DDoS protection. There are two tiers of AWS Shield - Standard and Advanced. To learn more visit the detailed page here.

AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced are now available on Amazon CloudFront and 18 AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), EU (London), EU (Stockholm), EU (Paris), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), South America (Sao Paulo), Middle East (Bahrain), and Canada (Central). AWS Shield Advanced is also available on Amazon Route 53.