RuleGroup

Note

This is AWS WAF Classic documentation. For more information, see AWS WAF Classic in the developer guide.

For the latest version of AWS WAF , use the AWS WAFV2 API and see the AWS WAF Developer Guide. With the latest version, AWS WAF has a single set of endpoints for regional and global use.

A collection of predefined rules that you can add to a web ACL.

Rule groups are subject to the following limits:

Three rule groups per account. You can request an increase to this limit by contacting customer support.
One rule group per web ACL.
Ten rules per rule group.

MetricName

A friendly name or description for the metrics for this RuleGroup. The name can contain only alphanumeric characters (A-Z, a-z, 0-9), with maximum length 128 and minimum length one. It can't contain whitespace or metric names reserved for AWS WAF, including "All" and "Default_Action." You can't change the name of the metric after you create the RuleGroup.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: .*\S.*

Required: No

Name

The friendly name or description for the RuleGroup. You can't change the name of a RuleGroup after you create it.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: .*\S.*

Required: No

RuleGroupId

A unique identifier for a RuleGroup. You use RuleGroupId to get more information about a RuleGroup (see GetRuleGroup), update a RuleGroup (see UpdateRuleGroup), insert a RuleGroup into a WebACL or delete a one from a WebACL (see UpdateWebACL), or delete a RuleGroup from AWS WAF (see DeleteRuleGroup).

RuleGroupId is returned by CreateRuleGroup and by ListRuleGroups.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: .*\S.*

Required: Yes

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