AWS waf documentation change
Summary
Updated terminology from 'protection pack or web ACL' to 'protection pack (web ACL)' throughout the document to clarify relationship between protection packs and web ACLs
Security assessment
The changes are purely terminological clarifications without introducing new security concepts or addressing vulnerabilities. The updates standardize phrasing but do not modify security guidance, requirements, or feature capabilities.
Diff
diff --git a/waf/latest/developerguide/web-acl-associating-aws-resource.md b/waf/latest/developerguide/web-acl-associating-aws-resource.md index d8d93f8c4..840e2c236 100644 --- a//waf/latest/developerguide/web-acl-associating-aws-resource.md +++ b//waf/latest/developerguide/web-acl-associating-aws-resource.md @@ -11 +11 @@ You can now use the updated experience to access AWS WAF functionality anywhere -You can use AWS WAF to create the following associations between protection pack or web ACLs and your resources: +You can use AWS WAF to create the following associations between protection packs (web ACLs) and your resources: @@ -13 +13 @@ You can use AWS WAF to create the following associations between protection pack - * Associate a regional protection pack or web ACL with any of the regional resources listed below. For this option, the protection pack or web ACL must be in the same region as your resource. + * Associate a regional protection pack (web ACL) with any of the regional resources listed below. For this option, the protection pack (web ACL) must be in the same region as your resource. @@ -29 +29 @@ You can use AWS WAF to create the following associations between protection pack - * Associate a global protection pack or web ACL with a Amazon CloudFront distribution. The global protection pack or web ACL will have a hard-coded Region of US East (N. Virginia) Region. + * Associate a global protection pack (web ACL) with a Amazon CloudFront distribution. The global protection pack (web ACL) will have a hard-coded Region of US East (N. Virginia) Region. @@ -34 +34 @@ You can use AWS WAF to create the following associations between protection pack -You can also associate a protection pack or web ACL with a CloudFront distribution when you create or update the distribution itself. For information, see [Using AWS WAF to Control Access to Your Content](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/distribution-web-awswaf.html) in the _Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide_. +You can also associate a protection pack (web ACL) with a CloudFront distribution when you create or update the distribution itself. For information, see [Using AWS WAF to Control Access to Your Content](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/distribution-web-awswaf.html) in the _Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide_. @@ -38 +38 @@ You can also associate a protection pack or web ACL with a CloudFront distributi -You can associate a single protection pack or web ACL with one or more AWS resources, according to the following restrictions: +You can associate a single protection pack (web ACL) with one or more AWS resources, according to the following restrictions: @@ -40 +40 @@ You can associate a single protection pack or web ACL with one or more AWS resou - * You can associate each AWS resource with only one protection pack or web ACL. The relationship between protection pack or web ACL and AWS resources is one-to-many. + * You can associate each AWS resource with only one protection pack (web ACL). The relationship between protection pack (web ACL) and AWS resources is one-to-many. @@ -42 +42 @@ You can associate a single protection pack or web ACL with one or more AWS resou - * You can associate a protection pack or web ACL with one or more CloudFront distributions. You cannot associate a protection pack or web ACL that you have associated with a CloudFront distribution with any other AWS resource type. + * You can associate a protection pack (web ACL) with one or more CloudFront distributions. You cannot associate a protection pack (web ACL) that you have associated with a CloudFront distribution with any other AWS resource type. @@ -49 +49 @@ You can associate a single protection pack or web ACL with one or more AWS resou -The following additional restrictions apply to protection pack or web ACL associations: +The following additional restrictions apply to protection pack (web ACL) associations: @@ -51 +51 @@ The following additional restrictions apply to protection pack or web ACL associ - * You can only associate a protection pack or web ACL to an Application Load Balancer within AWS Regions. For example, you cannot associate a protection pack or web ACL to an Application Load Balancer that is on AWS Outposts. + * You can only associate a protection pack (web ACL) to an Application Load Balancer within AWS Regions. For example, you cannot associate a protection pack (web ACL) to an Application Load Balancer that is on AWS Outposts. @@ -53 +53 @@ The following additional restrictions apply to protection pack or web ACL associ - * You can't associate an Amazon Cognito user pool with a protection pack or web ACL that uses the AWS WAF Fraud Control account creation fraud prevention (ACFP) managed rule group ``AWSManagedRulesACFPRuleSet`` or the AWS WAF Fraud Control account takeover prevention (ATP) managed rule group ``AWSManagedRulesATPRuleSet``. For information about account creation fraud prevention, see [AWS WAF Fraud Control account creation fraud prevention (ACFP)](./waf-acfp.html). For information about account takeover prevention, see [AWS WAF Fraud Control account takeover prevention (ATP)](./waf-atp.html). + * You can't associate an Amazon Cognito user pool with a protection pack (web ACL) that uses the AWS WAF Fraud Control account creation fraud prevention (ACFP) managed rule group ``AWSManagedRulesACFPRuleSet`` or the AWS WAF Fraud Control account takeover prevention (ATP) managed rule group ``AWSManagedRulesATPRuleSet``. For information about account creation fraud prevention, see [AWS WAF Fraud Control account creation fraud prevention (ACFP)](./waf-acfp.html). For information about account takeover prevention, see [AWS WAF Fraud Control account takeover prevention (ATP)](./waf-atp.html). @@ -60 +60 @@ The following additional restrictions apply to protection pack or web ACL associ -Before you deploy your protection pack or web ACL for production traffic, test and tune it in a staging or testing environment until you are comfortable with the potential impact to your traffic. Then test and tune your rules in count mode with your production traffic before enabling them. For guidance, see [Testing and tuning your AWS WAF protections](./web-acl-testing.html). +Before you deploy your protection pack (web ACL) for production traffic, test and tune it in a staging or testing environment until you are comfortable with the potential impact to your traffic. Then test and tune your rules in count mode with your production traffic before enabling them. For guidance, see [Testing and tuning your AWS WAF protections](./web-acl-testing.html).