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DefaultAction - AWS WAFV2

DefaultAction

In a WebACL, this is the action that you want AWS WAF to perform when a web request doesn't match any of the rules in the WebACL. The default action must be a terminating action.

Contents

Allow

Specifies that AWS WAF should allow requests by default.

Type: AllowAction object

Required: No

Block

Specifies that AWS WAF should block requests by default.

Type: BlockAction object

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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