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AWS Network Firewall

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Spec sheet

Purpose
AWS Network Firewall is a managed service for deploying network protections across Amazon VPCs.Read 30 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Intended users
AWS describes use cases including protecting VPC boundaries, filtering inbound and outbound traffic, and inspecting traffic between VPCs.Read 30 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Free plan
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Maker
Amazon states that its principal corporate offices are in Seattle, Washington, and that it was incorporated in 1994.Read 30 Sep 2026 · ir.aboutamazon.com
Availability and scaling
The service automatically scales capacity and supports high availability across Availability Zones.Read 30 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
AWS integrations
AWS identifies Transit Gateway, VPC, IAM, and CloudWatch as native service integrations.Read 30 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Central management and logging
AWS Firewall Manager can centrally manage policies across accounts and VPCs, while alert and flow logs can be stored in Amazon S3, Kinesis, or CloudWatch.Read 30 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Encrypted traffic
TLS inspection can analyze encrypted traffic within the VPC and has an additional hourly charge for Advanced Inspection.Read 30 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Notable limitation
AWS says Network Firewall is not designed to mitigate volumetric denial-of-service attacks.Read 30 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Partner integrations
AWS Marketplace partners offer managed rule groups that can be deployed in Network Firewall policies, with additional seller-set fees.Read 30 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Support commitment
AWS states that Network Firewall has a 99.99% uptime commitment under its service-level agreement.Read 30 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Threat protection
AWS-managed intrusion prevention signatures and malicious domain rule groups are included at no additional cost.Read 30 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Traffic controls
Its stateful firewall supports deep packet inspection and rules based on IP addresses, ports, protocols, and traffic direction.Read 30 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Web filtering and proxy
It supports HTTP header, SNI, and domain filtering, and an explicit forward proxy for controlling outbound internet traffic.Read 30 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com

Plans and prices

Firewall endpoint $0.40 a month $0.395 for each hour the firewall endpoint is provisioned in US East (N. Virginia) Managed firewall endpoint Read 21 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Traffic processing $0.07 a month $0.065 for 1 GB of data processed in US East (N. Virginia) Network Firewall data processing Read 21 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Pay-as-you-go Price not published Hourly per firewall endpoint, plus per-GB traffic processing; rates vary by region and Availability Zone. Pricing examples show $0.395 per endpoint-hour and $0.065 per GB. Advanced inspection and active threat defense may add charges · AWS Marketplace managed rules may cost extra Read 30 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com

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