This document describes how to get started with Web Application Firewall (WAF).
1. Basic Knowledge of WAF
2. WAF Billing Mode
Tencent Cloud WAF offers two product forms, SaaS-based WAF and CLB-based WAF. Both types of WAF have essentially the same billing items, and the billing mode and prices are the same, supporting prepaid (annual or monthly) billing methods. For more details, please see Billing Overview.
You can choose to purchase different types of WAF based on different integration methods. For more details, please see Purchase Methods.
3. Getting started
3.1 WAF features
Tencent Cloud WAF offers two product forms, SaaS WAF and CLB WAF, with different versions providing different main features. For details, please refer to Product Classification.
3.2 WAF purchase
WAF supports annual or monthly subscription (prepayment) billing. You can purchase products on the WAF purchase page. For details, please refer to Purchase Methods.
3.3 Connection to WAF
Tencent Cloud WAF is divided into two types, SaaS WAF and CLB WAF, with different domain name access methods for each type. For details, please refer to Getting Started Overview.
3.4 Related Practices
WAF is applicable to certain use cases and can be used together with other Tencent Cloud services for security protection:
4. Overview of console features
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View the access log information for WAF protected domains. | |
Query web attack log information based on filter criteria and download the query results. | |
Enable emergency CC protection or custom CC protection policy. | |
Prevent abnormal display caused by specific page tampering. | |
Through custom policy combinations, create targeted rules to block various types of attacks. | |
Replace sensitive information returned by web pages to prevent information leakage. | |
Blocklist foreign countries, regions, and major provinces in China to block all access from these areas. | |
Identify and classify friendly and malicious bots and apply targeted traffic management strategies. | |
Detect and capture known and unknown web threats. | |
Perform status queries and blacklist/whitelist settings for access source IPs of domains protected by WAF. |
5. FAQs for Beginners
6. Feedback and Suggestions
If you have any questions or suggestions about WAF, you can send your feedback through the following channels, and we will get back to you accordingly:
If you find problems with the product documentation, such as link, content, API errors, etc., you can click Document Feedback on the right side of the document page or select the problematic content to give feedback.
If you have any product-related issues, you can contact Online Customer Service for assistance.
If you have other questions, please go to Tencent Cloud Developer Community.