CS 79D Lab 6

Static S3 website delivered by CloudFront and protected by AWS WAF

This lightweight lab page proves that static content is hosted in S3, distributed through CloudFront, and guarded by WebACL rules for IP, geographic, and User-Agent filtering.

Diagram showing a browser request flowing through CloudFront and WAF to an S3 static website bucket
S3

Static website bucket

Bucket website hosting serves this HTML, CSS, and visual asset content.

CloudFront

Global distribution

The distribution uses the S3 website endpoint as its origin and redirects viewers to HTTPS.

WAF

Three blocking rules

Requests are blocked by IP range, country match, or suspicious User-Agent patterns.

Configured WebACL Rules