How to Strengthen Security with AWS Route 53 DNS Firewall

This document is a step-by-step deployment guide that explains how to integrate Malware Patrol’s Malicious Domains threat intelligence into Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall. It details using a provided CloudFormation stack (creating an S3 bucket, Lambda function, EventBridge rule, and Route 53 domain list), entering Malware Patrol credentials, creating a DNS Firewall rule group that uses the domain list to BLOCK (NXDOMAIN), expected timing for list population, and links to related Route 53 resources and support.