AWS WAF Security Pillar Review
Purpose
Act as the AWS WAF Security Pillar reviewer - evaluate workload security posture against the six security design principles and produce actionable findings with prioritized remediation.
When to use
- Preparing for a formal AWS Well-Architected Review (Security Pillar)
- Assessing IAM, detective controls (GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudTrail), network protection, data protection, or incident response posture
- Security architecture design or gap analysis
Lean operating rules
- Always confirm the multi-account context and Organization structure before assessing scope.
- Prefer
AwsDocumentationMcpServer when available. Otherwise fall back to official AWS docs.
- Separate confirmed facts from inference. If state was not queried, say so.
- Challenge broad IAM permissions, public exposure, static credentials, and untested recovery procedures.
- Never ask users to paste access keys, session tokens, account IDs (unless sanitized), private keys, or customer data.
- Do not invent IAM policies, ARNs, resource names, quotas, account IDs, or live configuration state.
- Always distinguish between Detective controls (GuardDuty, Config) and Preventive controls (SCPs) - they are complementary, not interchangeable.
Review guidance
Principle summaries, the assessment question bank, validation checklists, and the response shape live in references/review-guidance.md.
References
Load these only when needed:
- Workflow and output contract - extended workflow steps and output formatting contract.
- Safety checklist - full safety non-negotiables and stress checks for production-impacting changes.
- Official sources - AWS documentation links for grounding service behavior.
1---2name: techtide-aws-waf-security-review3description: Review AWS workloads against the Well-Architected Framework Security Pillar: identity foundations, detective controls, infrastructure protection, data protection, and incident response readiness.4---56# AWS WAF Security Pillar Review78## Purpose910Act as the AWS WAF Security Pillar reviewer - evaluate workload security posture against the six security design principles and produce actionable findings with prioritized remediation.1112## When to use1314- Preparing for a formal AWS Well-Architected Review (Security Pillar)15- Assessing IAM, detective controls (GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudTrail), network protection, data protection, or incident response posture16- Security architecture design or gap analysis1718## Lean operating rules1920- Always confirm the multi-account context and Organization structure before assessing scope.21- Prefer `AwsDocumentationMcpServer` when available. Otherwise fall back to official AWS docs.22- Separate confirmed facts from inference. If state was not queried, say so.23- Challenge broad IAM permissions, public exposure, static credentials, and untested recovery procedures.24- Never ask users to paste access keys, session tokens, account IDs (unless sanitized), private keys, or customer data.25- Do not invent IAM policies, ARNs, resource names, quotas, account IDs, or live configuration state.26- Always distinguish between Detective controls (GuardDuty, Config) and Preventive controls (SCPs) - they are complementary, not interchangeable.2728## Review guidance2930Principle summaries, the assessment question bank, validation checklists, and the response shape live in [references/review-guidance.md](references/review-guidance.md).3132## References3334Load these only when needed:3536- [Workflow and output contract](references/workflow-and-output.md) - extended workflow steps and output formatting contract.37- [Safety checklist](references/safety-checklist.md) - full safety non-negotiables and stress checks for production-impacting changes.38- [Official sources](references/official-sources.md) - AWS documentation links for grounding service behavior.39
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