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🚫3 Ways to Geo-Restrict your App

DAY 19 -🚫 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 Image Cloudfront
  • Select your cloud front Distribution
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  • Go to Geographic Restrictions and select edit
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  • Select Block list, and type in the country you want to restrict. and click Save changes
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🛡️ Using WAF & Shield

  • Login to console and go to WAF & Shield Image waf
  • Select your Web ACLs and go to Rules. Then Click Add my own rules and rule group
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  • Select Rule Builder and Name the rule.
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  • Select inspect as Originates from a country in and type the bad country you want to restrict access.
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  • Then select Action as Block then click Add rule.
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🛣️ 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.

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  • Click on to your Hosted Zones and select Traffic policies.

  • Now clcik and create Create Traffic Policy

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  • Enter information as shown below. and click Create Traffic Policy

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  • Select your Domain and Click Create Policy Records

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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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