# Vapor: Introducing Managed Firewalls

DevFeed: [Vapor: Introducing Managed Firewalls](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/vapor-introducing-managed-firewalls-3958.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://laravel.com/blog/vapor-introducing-managed-firewalls>)

Author: Nuno Maduro

Published: 2021-05-27T13:30:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Laravel Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/laravel-blog.md>)

Topics: [Vapor](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/swift-vapor.md>), [firewalls](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firewalls.md>), [Firewall](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firewall.md>), [DDoS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ddos.md>), [Bot](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bot.md>), [amazon](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon.md>)

Tags: [amazon](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/amazon.md>), [attacks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/attacks.md>), [bots](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bots.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [firewall](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firewall.md>), [firewalls](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firewalls.md>), [http](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/http.md>), [laravel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/laravel.md>), [php](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/php.md>)

## AI overview

Laravel introduces managed firewalls for Vapor, providing basic protection against denial-of-service attacks and pervasive bot traffic. The feature rate-limits requests by originating IP address, temporarily blocks excessive request rates, and can block categorized bots such as scrapers and search engines. It uses Amazon WAF behind the scenes.

## Source excerpt

Today, we are proud to introduce Vapor's managed firewalls for basic protection against denial-of-service attacks targeting your environment, as well as protection against pervasive bot traffic that can consume your environment's resources.