AWS Network Firewall

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Availability and scaling

The service automatically scales capacity and supports high availability across Availability Zones.aws.amazon.com · read 30 Sep 2026

AWS integrations

AWS identifies Transit Gateway, VPC, IAM, and CloudWatch as native service integrations.aws.amazon.com · read 30 Sep 2026

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.aws.amazon.com · read 30 Sep 2026

Encrypted traffic

TLS inspection can analyze encrypted traffic within the VPC and has an additional hourly charge for Advanced Inspection.aws.amazon.com · read 30 Sep 2026

Intended users

AWS describes use cases including protecting VPC boundaries, filtering inbound and outbound traffic, and inspecting traffic between VPCs.aws.amazon.com · read 30 Sep 2026

Maker

Amazon states that its principal corporate offices are in Seattle, Washington, and that it was incorporated in 1994.ir.aboutamazon.com · read 30 Sep 2026

Notable limitation

AWS says Network Firewall is not designed to mitigate volumetric denial-of-service attacks.aws.amazon.com · read 30 Sep 2026

Partner integrations

AWS Marketplace partners offer managed rule groups that can be deployed in Network Firewall policies, with additional seller-set fees.aws.amazon.com · read 30 Sep 2026

Purpose

AWS Network Firewall is a managed service for deploying network protections across Amazon VPCs.aws.amazon.com · read 30 Sep 2026

Support commitment

AWS states that Network Firewall has a 99.99% uptime commitment under its service-level agreement.aws.amazon.com · read 30 Sep 2026

Threat protection

AWS-managed intrusion prevention signatures and malicious domain rule groups are included at no additional cost.aws.amazon.com · read 30 Sep 2026

Traffic controls

Its stateful firewall supports deep packet inspection and rules based on IP addresses, ports, protocols, and traffic direction.aws.amazon.com · read 30 Sep 2026

Web filtering and proxy

It supports HTTP header, SNI, and domain filtering, and an explicit forward proxy for controlling outbound internet traffic.aws.amazon.com · read 30 Sep 2026

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