Amazon WAF charges based on the number of web access control lists (web ACLs) that you create, the number of rules that you add per web ACL, and the number of web requests that you receive. There are no upfront commitments. Amazon WAF charges are in addition to Application Load Balancer (ALB) pricing, Amazon API Gateway pricing, and/or Amazon AppSync pricing.
Free Tier
WAF Bot Control Free Tier is available in the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region operated by NWCD and Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet. The Free Tier includes 10,000,000 requests processed by Bot Control per month.
Amazon WAF pricing
You will be charged for each web ACL that you create and each rule that you create per web ACL. In addition, you will be charged for the number of web requests processed by the web ACL.
| Resource type | Price |
| Web ACL | ¥ 32.65 per month (prorated hourly) |
| Rule | ¥ 6.53 per month (prorated hourly) |
| Request | ¥ 3.92 per 1 million requests |
Note 1: Price is the same for Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD.
Note 2: Price for Amazon WAF Classic is same as shown in the table above.
Note 3: Amazon WAF uses Web ACL Capacity Units (WCUs) to calculate and control the operating resources required to process your web ACLs. WCUs for an individual rule varies according to its type and any additional configuration. You will be charged an additional ¥1.45 per million requests for each 500 WCUs the Web ACL uses beyond the default allocation of 1500. For more information about default limits, see Developer Guide.
Note 4: Amazon WAF supports standard rule actions such as, Allow, Block, Count at no additional charge. You will be charged per each Captcha attempt and Challenge response as per table below.
| Rule Actions | Price |
| Captcha | ¥ 2.61 per 1 thousand attempts analyzed |
| Challenge | ¥ 2.61 per 10 thousand responses served |
Captcha attempt is when a user completes a Captcha challenge that is submitted to Amazon WAF for analysis, regardless of the outcome. A single Captcha response can result in multiple attempts.
Challenge response is when a user is served a challenge page by Amazon WAF as a result of a challenge action, regardless of whether the user attempts the challenge.
Managed Rules Groups through Amazon Managed Rules
Bot Control is a paid Amazon Managed Rules that can be added to your web ACL. You will be charged for each time Bot Control is added to your web ACL. In addition, you will be charged for the number of web requests processed by Bot Control. Bot Control charges are in addition to the Amazon WAF fees described above.
Bot Control free usage tier includes 10M free requests processed by Bot Control per month.
| Resource type | Price |
| Bot Control | ¥ 65.30 per month (prorated hourly) |
| Request | ¥ 6.53 per 1 million requests |
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