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Introducing AWS WAF

AWS WAF is a managed cloud web application firewall (WAF) service that protects websites, APIs, and applications from bots, exploits, and layer 7 events. Deploy scalable, enterprise-grade WAF solutions with global protection.

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FreeBSD/EC2 lives

There are some caveats to this. First, at the moment only FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT can run under EC2; I haven't merged bug fixes back to the stable branches. Second, at the moment FreeBSD only runs on t1.micro instances, for reasons I can't discuss (NDA) but hope will be resolved soon. Third, this code hasn't received very…