Name: AWS Network Firewall
Rating: 4.1 (62 reviews)

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Product Information on AWS Network Firewall

Updated 13th October 2025

What is AWS Network Firewall?

AWS Network Firewall is a software designed to provide network protection for workloads running in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud environments. It offers features such as stateful inspection, intrusion prevention, and application traffic filtering to help control and monitor network traffic. The software enables users to define and manage rules to allow or block traffic based on protocols, ports, and IP addresses. AWS Network Firewall automates the deployment and scaling of firewall protections, allowing for consistent policy enforcement across cloud workloads. It is used to address security requirements for network segmentation, threat detection, and regulatory compliance by offering centralized visibility and management of network traffic within a cloud infrastructure.

Overall experience with AWS Network Firewall

Cloud Security Architect

3B - 10B USD, Healthcare and Biotech

FAVORABLE

“AWS Network Firewall Offers Rapid Deployment But Faces Feature and Usability Limits”

4.0

Sep 8, 2025

AWS as a vendor has been very positive! Our sales and support teams are very supportive and flexible and always willing to help us with our business needs.

Operations Associate

50M - 250M USD, IT Services

CRITICAL

“Deep VPC Integration Highlights AWS Network Firewall’s Scalability and Traffic Control”

3.0

Feb 12, 2026

AWS Network Firewall delivers reliable network protection. once deployed it runs in a stable manner. overall it feels capable but complex.

About Company

Company Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

2006

Head office location

Seattle, United States

Number of employees

10001+

Website

http://aws.amazon.com

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AWS Network Firewall Likes & Dislikes

AWS Network Firewall has been a good interim solution allowing for rapid implementation and cost allocation/transparency.

I like the deep integration with VPC and the way it provides fine control over inbound and outbound traffic. It scales without any manual intervention.

I like that AWS Network Firewall offers robust protection for cloud networks and that the rules can be configured flexibly. It's also very well integrated with other AWS services, making it easier to manage security across your environment.

AWS Network Firewall rulesets are somewhat frustrating to develop and manage, and the service is limited in features compared to enterprise firewall solutions.

Policy design is hard to manage as rule groups grow. Troubleshooting blocked traffic can take time. logging and visibility requires extra configuration

What I dislike about AWS Network Firewall is that it can be difficult to tune specific rules. However, adding a lot of protections will naturally raise the cost. It becomes not so friendly in smaller projects.

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50M-1B USD

IT Services

Review Source

Deep VPC Integration Highlights AWS Network Firewall’s Scalability and Traffic Control

Feb 11, 2026

1B-10B USD

Healthcare and Biotech

AWS Network Firewall Offers Rapid Deployment But Faces Feature and Usability Limits

Data Analyst

Telecommunication

Exploring the Strengths and Complexities of AWS Network Firewall

Jan 28, 2025

Offering strong protection with easy setup, customizable rule sets and integration with VPCs, AWS Network Firewall automatically scales to handle traffic. This means it can get a little expensive with high usage. It's a good traffic monitor, but advanced threat intelligence and control management are a pain in complex environments

AWS Cloud Engineer

10B+ USD

Customizable Security Rules in AWS Network Firewall

Jan 18, 2025

AWS Network Firewall: This is another reliable, cloud-based solution in the form of a simple method to protect one's cloud network with customizable security rules. Nonetheless, it becomes a little intricate for a fresh face to Network Security to deploy.

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Software

Navigating the Importance of AWS Network Firewall in Securing Applications

Jan 17, 2025

As a Senior QA Automation Engineer, I see AWS Network Firewall as a vital tool in our infrastructure for securing applications