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header: Special Service Guide Update for April 30, 2023
lang: en
last_updated: null
url: https://docs.fastly.com/changes/significant/2023/04/30/special
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[As announced](https://docs.fastly.com/changes/significant/2022/12/07/special), today marks the [formal retirement](https://docs.fastly.com/products/fastly-product-lifecycle#product-or-feature-retirement) of the Fastly WAF (WAF Legacy and WAF 2020). Our [Fastly Next-Gen WAF](https://docs.fastly.com/products/fastly-next-gen-waf) offers similar functionality. It monitors for suspicious and anomalous web traffic and protects, in real-time, against attacks directed at the applications and origin servers that you specify.