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 concepts
Security assessment
The changes are purely terminological clarifications without addressing vulnerabilities, security controls, or incident response. No security implications were introduced or modified in the documentation.
Diff
diff --git a/waf/latest/developerguide/web-acl-testing-view-metrics.md b/waf/latest/developerguide/web-acl-testing-view-metrics.md index 86b892d21..420027501 100644 --- a//waf/latest/developerguide/web-acl-testing-view-metrics.md +++ b//waf/latest/developerguide/web-acl-testing-view-metrics.md @@ -11 +11 @@ You can now use the updated experience to access AWS WAF functionality anywhere -This section describes how to view metrics for your protection pack or web ACL. +This section describes how to view metrics for your protection pack (web ACL). @@ -13 +13 @@ This section describes how to view metrics for your protection pack or web ACL. -After you've associated a protection pack or web ACL with one or more AWS resources, you can view the resulting metrics for the association in an Amazon CloudWatch graph. +After you've associated a protection pack (web ACL) with one or more AWS resources, you can view the resulting metrics for the association in an Amazon CloudWatch graph. @@ -17 +17 @@ For information about AWS WAF metrics, see [AWS WAF metrics and dimensions](./wa -For each of your rules in a protection pack or web ACL and for all the requests that an associated resource forwards to AWS WAF for a protection pack or web ACL, CloudWatch lets you do the following: +For each of your rules in a protection pack (web ACL) and for all the requests that an associated resource forwards to AWS WAF for a protection pack (web ACL), CloudWatch lets you do the following: @@ -32 +32 @@ AWS WAF with CloudFront is a global service and metrics are available only when -###### To view data for the rules in a protection pack or web ACL +###### To view data for the rules in a protection pack (web ACL) @@ -40 +40 @@ AWS WAF with CloudFront is a global service and metrics are available only when - 4. Select the check box for the protection pack or web ACL that you want to view data for. + 4. Select the check box for the protection pack (web ACL) that you want to view data for. @@ -66 +66 @@ Choose the rules for which you want to view data. -If you change the name of a rule and you want the rule's metric name to reflect the change, you must update the metric name as well. AWS WAF doesn't automatically update the metric name for a rule when you change the rule name. You can change the metric name when you edit the rule in the console, by using the rule JSON editor. You can also change both names through the APIs and in any JSON listing that you use to define your protection pack or web ACL or rule group. +If you change the name of a rule and you want the rule's metric name to reflect the change, you must update the metric name as well. AWS WAF doesn't automatically update the metric name for a rule when you change the rule name. You can change the metric name when you edit the rule in the console, by using the rule JSON editor. You can also change both names through the APIs and in any JSON listing that you use to define your protection pack (web ACL) or rule group. @@ -70 +70 @@ Note the following: - * If you recently associated a protection pack or web ACL with an AWS resource, you might need to wait a few minutes for data to appear in the graph and for the metric for the protection pack or web ACL to appear in the list of available metrics. + * If you recently associated a protection pack (web ACL) with an AWS resource, you might need to wait a few minutes for data to appear in the graph and for the metric for the protection pack (web ACL) to appear in the list of available metrics. @@ -72 +72 @@ Note the following: - * If you associate more than one resource with a protection pack or web ACL, the CloudWatch data will include requests for all of them. + * If you associate more than one resource with a protection pack (web ACL), the CloudWatch data will include requests for all of them. @@ -91 +91 @@ Monitoring and tuning your AWS WAF protections -Traffic overview dashboards for protection pack or web ACLs +Traffic overview dashboards for protection packs (web ACLs)