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Configuring DNS Firewall

Configuring DNS Firewall - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Configuring DNS Firewall

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- [Instructor] Now that we know what Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall can do, let's see how easy it is to get this service up and running. Here I am at my EC2 dashboard. Let's say I have a suspicion that my Windows Tools instance has been compromised. Clicking on that machine's instance ID, I can get some additional information about the networking setup. Specifically, I can see the VPC ID in which this instance sits. Let's go ahead and click on that VPC ID, which opens up the VPC console to that VPC in a new browser tab. Let's go ahead and get a DNS firewall set up in this VPC. To proceed, I scroll down to DNS Firewall in the left-hand nav and click Rule Groups. Since I don't have any existing rule groups, I see the splash page. To proceed, I click Create Rule Group. The first thing I need to do is specify a name for this group. In this case, I'll simply say block. From there, I'll go ahead and click Add Rule Group. Now, at this point, we have a rule group, but it's empty. It has no…

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