AWS WAF analysis: How it works and how to attack it

Thexssrat
4 min readSep 22, 2021

Introduction

AWS has been gaining traction in recent years as an all-in-one solution for cloud solutions. Their strength is that you only pay for what you run and that you can scale really quickly in case of a spike in traffic. Recently, for example, lambdas are taking over but this is not without risk. A lambda can be spun up quickly to catch any traffic spikes. The problem is that this is new technology and it is often misconfigured which allows attackers to run a companies bill sky-high.

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