Create Protection

shield_create_protection

R Documentation

Enables Shield Advanced for a specific Amazon Web Services resource¶

Description¶

Enables Shield Advanced for a specific Amazon Web Services resource. The resource can be an Amazon CloudFront distribution, Amazon Route 53 hosted zone, Global Accelerator standard accelerator, Elastic IP Address, Application Load Balancer, or a Classic Load Balancer. You can protect Amazon EC2 instances and Network Load Balancers by association with protected Amazon EC2 Elastic IP addresses.

You can add protection to only a single resource with each create_protection request. You can add protection to multiple resources at once through the Shield Advanced console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/wafv2/shieldv2#/. For more information see Getting Started with Shield Advanced and Adding Shield Advanced protection to Amazon Web Services resources.

Usage¶

shield_create_protection(Name, ResourceArn, Tags)

Arguments¶

Name

[required] Friendly name for the Protection you are creating.

ResourceArn

[required] The ARN (Amazon Resource Name) of the resource to be protected.

The ARN should be in one of the following formats:

For an Application Load Balancer: arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:region:account-id:loadbalancer/app/load-balancer-name/load-balancer-id
For an Elastic Load Balancer (Classic Load Balancer): arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:region:account-id:loadbalancer/load-balancer-name
For an Amazon CloudFront distribution: arn:aws:cloudfront::account-id:distribution/distribution-id
For an Global Accelerator standard accelerator: arn:aws:globalaccelerator::account-id:accelerator/accelerator-id
For Amazon Route 53: arn:aws:route53:::hostedzone/hosted-zone-id
For an Elastic IP address: arn:aws:ec2:region:account-id:eip-allocation/allocation-id

Tags

One or more tag key-value pairs for the Protection object that is created.

Value¶

A list with the following syntax:

list(
  ProtectionId = "string"
)

Request syntax¶

svc$create_protection(
  Name = "string",
  ResourceArn = "string",
  Tags = list(
    list(
      Key = "string",
      Value = "string"
    )
  )
)