AWS WAF General Availability Launch

AWS WAF was officially launched as a generally available service, offering a fully managed web application firewall integrated with Amazon CloudFront.

Significance

This marked the official entry of AWS into the managed WAF space, providing cloud-native security capabilities that were previously difficult and expensive for customers to deploy and manage on their own.

Key facts

Date
2015-10-02
Type
release
Location
Global (announced via AWS Blog, amplified at re:Invent)