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3 Ways to geo-restrict your App – Day Nineteen
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In this tutorial i will show demo of , restricting your application to specific country.
📝Prerequsite
Access to your WAF, Cloud Front, Route53 and privileges to manage it
🌩️ Using CloudFront
- Login into Console and goto CloudFront
- Select your cloud front Distribution
- Go to Geographic Restrictions and select edit
Select Block list, and type in the country you want to restrict. and click Save changes
🛡️ Using WAF & Shield
- Login to console and go to WAF & Shield
- Select your Web ACLs and go to Rules. Then Click Add my own rules and rule group
- Select Rule Builder and Name the rule.
- Select inspect as Originates from a country in and type the bad country you want to restrict access.
- Then select Action as Block then click Add rule.
🛣️ Using Route53
- Here the concept is a bit different rather than blocking them completely , what route53 does is it will redirect traffic from selected country to a diffrent end point which can be an s3 hosted site which says ” You don’t have access to this website from your country”.
- Check out this Tutorial to see how can you create a website with s3.
- once you host your site on s3 for the Bad-Country , you can just point it with R53.
- Login into Console and goto Route53.
- Click on to your Hosted Zones and select Traffic policies.
- Enter information as shown below. and click Create Traffic Policy
Select your Domain and Click Create Policy Records
Remember there is $50 charge for this so its recommended to use first two options
🎉Congratulations🎉 you have successfully blocked access to your app for a unauthorised Country.
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