AWS waf documentation change
Summary
Added AI Traffic Analysis dashboard documentation with monitoring of AI bot/agent activity patterns
Security assessment
The update adds documentation about analyzing AI bot traffic patterns as a security monitoring feature. While related to threat detection, there is no indication this change addresses a specific security vulnerability or incident response.
Diff
diff --git a/waf/latest/developerguide/web-acl-dashboards.md b/waf/latest/developerguide/web-acl-dashboards.md index c7919cf22..3ecbe3101 100644 --- a//waf/latest/developerguide/web-acl-dashboards.md +++ b//waf/latest/developerguide/web-acl-dashboards.md @@ -11 +11 @@ You can now use the updated experience to access AWS WAF functionality anywhere -This section describes the protection pack (web ACL) traffic overview dashboards in the AWS WAF console. After you associate a protection pack (web ACL) with one or more AWS resources and enable metrics for the protection pack (web ACL), you can access summaries of the web traffic that the protection pack (web ACL) evaluates by going to the protection pack (web ACL)'s **Traffic overview** tab in the AWS WAF console. The dashboards include near real-time summaries of the Amazon CloudWatch metrics that AWS WAF collects when it evaluates your application web traffic. +This section describes the protection pack (web ACL) traffic overview dashboards in the AWS WAF console. After you associate a protection pack (web ACL) with one or more AWS resources and enable metrics for the protection pack (web ACL), you can access summaries of the web traffic that the protection pack (web ACL) evaluates by going to the protection pack (web ACL)'s **Traffic overview** tab in the AWS WAF console. The dashboards include near real-time summaries of the Amazon CloudWatch metrics that AWS WAF collects when it evaluates your application web traffic, including specialized AI bot and agent activity analysis. @@ -20,0 +21,2 @@ The protection pack (web ACL)'s **Traffic overview** tab contains tabbed dashboa + * **AI Traffic Analysis** – Web requests analyzed for AI bot and agent activity, including bot identification, intent classification, access patterns, and temporal trends. This tab is available when your protection pack (web ACL) receives AI bot traffic +