WAF and Cloud Shield pricing
WAF and Cloud Shield pricing is still not integrated with the AWS cost calculator. Let's understand their pricing model. WAF can be integrated with ELB and CloudFront, so the WAF bill is included in the CloudFront or the ELB with which it is integrated.
Getting ready
We first need to understand the components of the services.
How to do it...
- Go to https://aws.amazon.com/waf/pricing/. You can see that the WAF price is based on the number of web ACL and rules. For example, if you have 2 web ACLs and 20 rules, the cost per month will be as follows:
(2 * $5 per web ACL per month) + (20 * $1 per rule per web ACL per month) = $30
- WAF has an additional price for the number of requests. For example, if your application receives 20 million requests, then the cost per month will be:
20*$0.60 per million web requests = $12
- So the total cost of WAF is $42 per month.
- AWS Cloud Shield is free and is integrated with Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Application Load Balancer, Amazon CloudFront...