A company is hosting a public-facing web application on an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The security team wants to protect the application from common web exploits, such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS). Which AWS service should be used?

Answer options:

AWS Shield Standard

AWS WAF

AWS Network Firewall

Amazon GuardDuty

How to approach this question

Match 'SQL injection' and 'XSS' with AWS WAF.

Full Answer

B.AWS WAF✓ Correct

AWS WAF is a web application firewall that lets you monitor the HTTP and HTTPS requests that are forwarded to an Amazon API Gateway API, Amazon CloudFront, or an Application Load Balancer. It protects against common web exploits like SQL injection and XSS.

Common mistakes

Confusing AWS WAF (Layer 7 web exploits) with AWS Shield (DDoS protection).

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