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Cloud application architecture elements

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Cloud application architecture elements

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Our first component here is the WAF, the Web Application Firewall. So let's say I have my WAF here, I'm gonna put a little fire in there, fire, and then a little icon. And of course, we're accessing that over the Internet with the web client, some end user through a web browser. Now, the WAF, for the most part, at a cloud service provider, this is going to be a managed solution. And often, the WAF goes hand-in-hand with the anti-DDoS protection. So it's kind of WAF and anti-botnet, or distributed knowledge service type. This is usually a managed service. So you're paying a certain amount per month to the provider. And they're gonna automatically manage this. Often they're gonna give you different vendor partners, like Fortinet, or maybe CrowdStrike, or something like that, to manage this firewall. Cuz this is actually, when it gets right down to it, this is a web access control list. And you could go up to the OWASP cheat sheets, and download these and configure this WAF yourself. But…

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