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AWS WAF Now Protects Bedrock AgentCore Gateway in GA
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AWS quietly closed a real gap in enterprise AI deployment: Bedrock AgentCore Gateway is now in GA with WAF protection built in — IP controls, rate limiting, and managed rule groups covering bots and known exploits, applied once at the Gateway and covering everything behind it. That "applied once" part matters. Most agentic AI pilots stall at production not because the models fail, but because security and infra teams can't get consistent enforcement across a sprawling set of tools and integrations. One configuration, every downstream agent covered — that's the kind of operational simplicity that actually moves deployment timelines.
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AWS has announced general availability of AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) protection for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, a managed entry point for agentic AI workloads. Enterprises can now apply IP-based access controls, rate-limiting rules to throttle abusive traffic, and AWS Managed Rule Groups (covering common exploits, known bad inputs, and bot control) at the Gateway layer — with a single configuration automatically protecting all downstream tools, agents, and integrations behind that Gateway. The move addresses a key production-readiness gap: as companies graduate AI agent applications from prototype to production, consistent web-security enforcement at the agent infrastructure layer becomes critical. The feature is available in all AWS regions where both services operate.
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