AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) — Question 87

A social media company wants to protect its web application from common web exploits such as SQL injections and cross-site scripting.
Which AWS service will meet these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Amazon Inspector
• B. AWS WAF
• C. Amazon GuardDuty
• D. Amazon CloudWatch

Correct answer: B

Explanation

AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) is specifically designed to protect web applications from common threats such as SQL injections and cross-site scripting. Other options like Amazon Inspector focus on security assessments, Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service, and Amazon CloudWatch is primarily for monitoring and logging, making them unsuitable for directly addressing web exploits.