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fix: Remove rate limiting WAF on api domain url #889

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Removes the blanket and POST rate limiting on the API Server URL that is co-hosted with the GCForms app in ECS and share the same Load Balancer and WAF Rules.

The API remains protected through it's own implementation of Token Bucket Rate Limiting.

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⚠ Terrform update available

Terraform: 1.9.8 (using 1.9.2)
Terragrunt: 0.68.12 (using 0.63.2)

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Staging: load_balancer

✅   Terraform Init: success
✅   Terraform Validate: success
✅   Terraform Format: success
✅   Terraform Plan: success
✅   Conftest: success

Plan: 0 to add, 1 to change, 0 to destroy
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CHANGE NAME
update aws_wafv2_rule_group.rate_limiters_group
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Resource actions are indicated with the following symbols:
  ~ update in-place

Terraform will perform the following actions:

  # aws_wafv2_rule_group.rate_limiters_group will be updated in-place
  ~ resource "aws_wafv2_rule_group" "rate_limiters_group" {
        id          = "51f888d4-a82d-4c56-8031-0da78ea6df8c"
        name        = "RateLimitersGroup"
        tags        = {}
        # (7 unchanged attributes hidden)

      - rule {
          - name     = "BlanketRequestLimit" -> null
          - priority = 1 -> null

          - action {
              - block {
                }
            }

          - statement {
              - rate_based_statement {
                  - aggregate_key_type    = "IP" -> null
                  - evaluation_window_sec = 300 -> null
                  - limit                 = 2500 -> null
                }
            }

          - visibility_config {
              - cloudwatch_metrics_enabled = true -> null
              - metric_name                = "BlanketRequestLimit" -> null
              - sampled_requests_enabled   = true -> null
            }
        }
      - rule {
          - name     = "PostRequestLimit" -> null
          - priority = 2 -> null

          - action {
              - block {
                }
            }

          - statement {
              - rate_based_statement {
                  - aggregate_key_type    = "IP" -> null
                  - evaluation_window_sec = 300 -> null
                  - limit                 = 100 -> null

                  - scope_down_statement {
                      - byte_match_statement {
                          - positional_constraint = "EXACTLY" -> null
                          - search_string         = "post" -> null

                          - field_to_match {
                              - method {}
                            }

                          - text_transformation {
                              - priority = 1 -> null
                              - type     = "LOWERCASE" -> null
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

          - visibility_config {
              - cloudwatch_metrics_enabled = true -> null
              - metric_name                = "PostRequestRateLimit" -> null
              - sampled_requests_enabled   = true -> null
            }
        }
      + rule {
          + name     = "BlanketRequestLimit"
          + priority = 1

          + action {
              + block {
                }
            }

          + statement {
              + rate_based_statement {
                  + aggregate_key_type    = "IP"
                  + evaluation_window_sec = 300
                  + limit                 = 2500

                  + scope_down_statement {
                      + not_statement {
                          + statement {
                              + byte_match_statement {
                                  + positional_constraint = "EXACTLY"
                                  + search_string         = "api.forms-staging.cdssandbox.xyz"

                                  + field_to_match {
                                      + single_header {
                                          + name = "host"
                                        }
                                    }

                                  + text_transformation {
                                      + priority = 1
                                      + type     = "LOWERCASE"
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

          + visibility_config {
              + cloudwatch_metrics_enabled = true
              + metric_name                = "BlanketRequestLimit"
              + sampled_requests_enabled   = true
            }
        }
      + rule {
          + name     = "PostRequestLimit"
          + priority = 2

          + action {
              + block {
                }
            }

          + statement {
              + rate_based_statement {
                  + aggregate_key_type    = "IP"
                  + evaluation_window_sec = 300
                  + limit                 = 100

                  + scope_down_statement {
                      + and_statement {
                          + statement {
                              + not_statement {
                                  + statement {
                                      + byte_match_statement {
                                          + positional_constraint = "EXACTLY"
                                          + search_string         = "api.forms-staging.cdssandbox.xyz"

                                          + field_to_match {
                                              + single_header {
                                                  + name = "host"
                                                }
                                            }

                                          + text_transformation {
                                              + priority = 1
                                              + type     = "LOWERCASE"
                                            }
                                        }
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                          + statement {
                              + byte_match_statement {
                                  + positional_constraint = "EXACTLY"
                                  + search_string         = "post"

                                  + field_to_match {
                                      + method {}
                                    }

                                  + text_transformation {
                                      + priority = 1
                                      + type     = "LOWERCASE"
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

          + visibility_config {
              + cloudwatch_metrics_enabled = true
              + metric_name                = "PostRequestRateLimit"
              + sampled_requests_enabled   = true
            }
        }

        # (1 unchanged block hidden)
    }

Plan: 0 to add, 1 to change, 0 to destroy.

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Saved the plan to: plan.tfplan

To perform exactly these actions, run the following command to apply:
    terraform apply "plan.tfplan"
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WARN - plan.json - main - Missing Common Tags: ["aws_acm_certificate.form_viewer"]
WARN - plan.json - main - Missing Common Tags: ["aws_acm_certificate.form_viewer_maintenance_mode"]
WARN - plan.json - main - Missing Common Tags: ["aws_acm_certificate.forms_api"]
WARN - plan.json - main - Missing Common Tags: ["aws_alb_listener_rule.forms_api"]
WARN - plan.json - main - Missing Common Tags: ["aws_cloudfront_distribution.maintenance_mode"]
WARN - plan.json - main - Missing Common Tags: ["aws_iam_role.firehose_waf_logs"]
WARN - plan.json - main - Missing Common Tags: ["aws_kinesis_firehose_delivery_stream.firehose_waf_logs"]
WARN - plan.json - main - Missing Common Tags: ["aws_lb.form_viewer"]
WARN - plan.json - main - Missing Common Tags: ["aws_lb_listener.form_viewer_http"]
WARN - plan.json - main - Missing Common Tags: ["aws_lb_listener.form_viewer_https"]
WARN - plan.json - main - Missing Common Tags: ["aws_lb_target_group.form_viewer_1"]
WARN - plan.json - main - Missing Common Tags: ["aws_lb_target_group.form_viewer_2"]
WARN - plan.json - main - Missing Common Tags: ["aws_lb_target_group.forms_api"]
WARN - plan.json - main - Missing Common Tags: ["aws_s3_bucket.maintenance_mode"]
WARN - plan.json - main - Missing Common Tags: ["aws_s3_object.maintenance_static_page_css_files[\"style.css\"]"]
WARN - plan.json - main - Missing Common Tags: ["aws_s3_object.maintenance_static_page_html_files[\"index-fr.html\"]"]
WARN - plan.json - main - Missing Common Tags: ["aws_s3_object.maintenance_static_page_html_files[\"index.html\"]"]
WARN - plan.json - main - Missing Common Tags: ["aws_s3_object.maintenance_static_page_ico_files[\"favicon.ico\"]"]
WARN - plan.json - main - Missing Common Tags: ["aws_s3_object.maintenance_static_page_svg_files[\"site-unavailable.svg\"]"]
WARN - plan.json - main - Missing Common Tags: ["aws_shield_protection.alb"]
WARN - plan.json - main - Missing Common Tags: ["aws_shield_protection.route53_hosted_zone[0]"]
WARN - plan.json - main - Missing...

@bryan-robitaille bryan-robitaille merged commit 0f92923 into main Nov 13, 2024
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@bryan-robitaille bryan-robitaille deleted the fix/remove_rate_limit_on_api branch November 13, 2024 15:17
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