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Cloudflare Magic Firewall vs Google Cloud Firewall Policies

Cloudflare Magic Firewall

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Google Cloud Firewall Policies

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FigureCloudflare Magic FirewallGoogle Cloud Firewall Policies
Price from—$0.02/mo
Free plan—Yes
Free trial——
Open source——
WebYesYes
APIYesYes
Plans published15
Spec score · Firewall Management Software7.4 (#12)8.0 (#6)
PurposeIt is a firewall-as-a-service that filters unwanted traffic before it reaches office networks and cloud infrastructure.Hierarchical firewall policies let organizations enforce consistent firewall rules across an organization or individual folders.

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Cloudflare Magic Firewall

  • Cloudflare Network Firewall (formerly Magic Firewall)Priced on request

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Google Cloud Firewall Policies

  • Cloud NGFW EssentialsFree
  • Hierarchical firewall policies (500 or fewer attributes)Free
  • Hierarchical firewall policies (501 or more attributes)Free
  • Cloud NGFW Standard$0.02 a month
  • Cloud NGFW Enterprise$1.75 a month

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Cloudflare Magic Firewall

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Google Cloud Firewall Policies

Google Cloud Firewall Policies provide hierarchical firewall rules for organizations that need to apply controls across an organization or selected folders. Rules can allow or deny connections, or pass evaluation onward to lower-level policies or VPC firewall rules. A hierarchical policy becomes active only when associated with an organization or folder; it cannot be assigned directly to a project. Rules can target VPC networks and VM service accounts, but not instance tags. When configured with a security profile group, matching traffic can be sent through a firewall endpoint for Layer 7 inspection, including URL filtering and intrusion detection and prevention. Administrators can manage policies in the Google Cloud console or with gcloud CLI; Google also documents Terraform support for rules with logging enabled. Logs are available in Cloud Logging and can be exported to its supported destinations. Identity and Access Management roles govern policy permissions. Essentials rules based on standard network attributes are free; hierarchical policy charges are listed per covered VM and depend on rule-attribute count.

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