Getting the error: Resource handler returned message: "AWS WAF couldn't perform the operation because your resource doesn?t exist

Question

    #WAF Code      
    Resources:
      MyWaf:
        Type: 'AWS::WAFv2::WebACL'
        Properties:
          Name: My-waf
          Scope: CLOUDFRONT
          DefaultAction:
            Block: {}
          VisibilityConfig:
            CloudWatchMetricsEnabled: true
            MetricName: my-waf-metric
            SampledRequestsEnabled: true
          Rules:
            - Name: AWSManagedRulesCommonRuleSet
              Statement:
                ManagedRuleGroupStatement:
                  VendorName: AWS
                  Name: CommonRuleSet
              Priority: 1
              Action:
                Block: {}
              OverrideAction:
                Count: {}
              VisibilityConfig:
                SampledRequestsEnabled: true
                CloudWatchMetricsEnabled: true
                MetricName: CommonRuleSetMetric
            - Name: AWSManagedRulesSQLiRuleSet
              Statement:
                ManagedRuleGroupStatement:
                  VendorName: AWS
                  Name: SQLiRuleSet
              Priority: 2
              Action:
                Block: {}
              OverrideAction:
                Count: {}
              VisibilityConfig:
                SampledRequestsEnabled: true
                CloudWatchMetricsEnabled: true
                MetricName: SQLiMeteric
            - Name: AWSManagedRulesKnownBadInputs
              Statement:
                ManagedRuleGroupStatement:
                  Name: BadInputSet
                  VendorName: AWS
              Priority: 3
              Action:
                Block: {}
              OverrideAction:
                Count: {}
              VisibilityConfig:
                SampledRequestsEnabled: true
                CloudWatchMetricsEnabled: true
                MetricName: BadInputMetric
            - Name: AWSManagedRulesATPRuleSet
              Statement:
                ManagedRuleGroupStatement:
                  Name: ATPRuleSet
                  VendorName: AWS
              Priority: 4
              Action:
                Block: {}
              OverrideAction:
                Count: {}
              VisibilityConfig:
                SampledRequestsEnabled: true
                CloudWatchMetricsEnabled: true
                MetricName: ATPRuleSetMetric
            - Name: AWSManagedRulesIPReputationList
              Priority: 5
              Statement:
                ManagedRuleGroupStatement:
                  Name: IPReputationListSet
                  VendorName: AWS
              Action:
                Block: {}
              OverrideAction:
                Count: {}
              VisibilityConfig:
                SampledRequestsEnabled: true
                CloudWatchMetricsEnabled: true
                MetricName: IPReputationListMetric
            - Name: AWSManagedRulesBotControlRuleSet
              Priority: 6
              Statement:
                ManagedRuleGroupStatement:
                  Name: BotControlSet
                  VendorName: AWS
              Action:
                Block: {}
              OverrideAction:
                Count: {}
              VisibilityConfig:
                SampledRequestsEnabled: true
                CloudWatchMetricsEnabled: true
                MetricName: BotContolSetMetric


    Outputs:
      WebACLId:
        Description: My WAF WebACL ID
        Value: !Ref MyWaf
        Export:
          Name: my-web-aclid

I have a CloudFront distribution in ap-souteast-2. Which is associated with an ALB. Both these resources are created using Cloudformation. I have associated a WAF with cloudfront with the scope of the WAFv2 as cloudfront. I am deploying this in us-east-1. Upon deploying the WAF code in us-east-1 , I noticed the following error.

Resource handler returned message: "AWS WAF couldn?t perform the operation because your resource doesn?t exist. (Service: Wafv2, Status Code: 400, Request ID: 7165d5e9-aa1d-4057-a5f2-b6a5617cbbdf)" (RequestToken: 82863340-6852-b176-023f-01beb14f28b1, HandlerErrorCode: NotFound). How do I then associate this WAF with a cloudfront deployed in ap-south-east 2 can exports be done cross region in cloudfromagtion...i think not right?

Here is my WAF code. Can you help me troubleshoot this as its a pretty generic runtime error.

    MyCloudFrontDistribution:
        Type: 'AWS::CloudFront::Distribution'
        Properties:
          DistributionConfig:
            Enabled: true
            Origins:
            - DomainName: !ImportValue my-ApiGatewayDnsName
              Id: testgwy
              CustomOriginConfig:
                HTTPSPort: 443
                OriginProtocolPolicy: https-only
            DefaultCacheBehavior: 
              AllowedMethods: 
                - GET
                - HEAD
              CachedMethods: 
                - GET
                - HEAD
              MinTTL: 100
              DefaultTTL: 100
              MaxTTL: 300
              ForwardedValues:
                 QueryString: true
              TargetOriginId: testalb
              ViewerProtocolPolicy: allow-all
            WebACLId: !Ref MyWaf
      

Thanks

I tried putting the cloudfront and WAF in us-east-1 but then the cloudfront deployment failed as the origin it links to is in ap-south-east-2. I tried running WAF code alone in us-east-1 and got the error.

Update 1: I removed all the rules and tried it again and the WAF code worked..then included only commonruleset rule and itfailed..it think something to do with ruleset

Answer 1

Your WebACL is called MyVicWaf, but you are using !Ref MyWaf. Also you need ARN, not Id. Thus it should be:

WebACLId: !GetAtt MyVicWaf.Arn

Answer 2

#WAF Code      
Resources:
  MyWaf:
    Type: 'AWS::WAFv2::WebACL'
    Properties:
      Name: My-waf
      Scope: CLOUDFRONT
      DefaultAction:
        Block: {}
      VisibilityConfig:
        CloudWatchMetricsEnabled: true
        MetricName: my-waf-metric
        SampledRequestsEnabled: true
      Rules:
        - Name: CommonRuleSet
          Statement:
            ManagedRuleGroupStatement:
              VendorName: AWS
              Name: AWSManagedRulesCommonRuleSet
          Priority: 0
          OverrideAction:
            Count: {}
          VisibilityConfig:
            SampledRequestsEnabled: true
            CloudWatchMetricsEnabled: true
            MetricName: CommonRuleSetMetric
        - Name: AWSManagedRulesSQLiRuleSet
          Statement:
            ManagedRuleGroupStatement:
              VendorName: AWS
              Name: AWSManagedRulesSQLiRuleSet
          Priority: 1
          OverrideAction:
            Count: {}
          VisibilityConfig:
            SampledRequestsEnabled: true
            CloudWatchMetricsEnabled: true
            MetricName: AWSManagedRulesSQLiRuleSetMetric
        - Name: AWS-AWSManagedRulesKnownBadInputsRuleSet
          Priority: 2
          OverrideAction:
            Count: {}
          VisibilityConfig:
            SampledRequestsEnabled: true
            CloudWatchMetricsEnabled: true
            MetricName: MetricForAMRKnownBadInputs
          Statement:
            ManagedRuleGroupStatement:
              VendorName: AWS
              Name: AWSManagedRulesKnownBadInputsRuleSet
        - Name: AWS-AWSManagedRulesATPRuleSet
          Priority: 3
          OverrideAction:
            Count: {}
          VisibilityConfig:
            SampledRequestsEnabled: true
            CloudWatchMetricsEnabled: true
            MetricName: MetricForAWSManagedRulesATPRuleSet
          Statement:
            ManagedRuleGroupStatement:
              VendorName: AWS
              Name: AWSManagedRulesATPRuleSet
              ManagedRuleGroupConfigs:
                - LoginPath: /api/accounts/login
                - PayloadType: JSON
                - PasswordField:
                    Identifier: /form/password
                - UsernameField:
                    Identifier: /form/username
        - Name: AWS-AWSManagedRulesAmazonIpReputationList
          Priority: 4
          OverrideAction:
            Count: {}
          VisibilityConfig:
            SampledRequestsEnabled: true
            CloudWatchMetricsEnabled: true
            MetricName: MetricForAWSManagedRulesAmazonIpReputationList
          Statement:
            ManagedRuleGroupStatement:
              VendorName: AWS
              Name: AWSManagedRulesAmazonIpReputationList
        - Name: AWS-AWSManagedRulesBotControlRuleSet
          Priority: 5
          OverrideAction:
            Count: {}
          VisibilityConfig:
            SampledRequestsEnabled: true
            CloudWatchMetricsEnabled: true
            MetricName: MetricForAWSManagedRulesBotControlRuleSet
          Statement:
            ManagedRuleGroupStatement:
              VendorName: AWS
              Name: AWSManagedRulesBotControlRuleSet


Outputs:
  WebACLId:
    Description: My WAF WebACL ID
    Value: !Ref MyWaf
    Export:
      Name: my-web-aclid
  

The rule names were incorrect and I have corrected them and the code works now :) Thanks to all those who saw my question and also attempted to answer it!