Tag: AWS Network Firewall

Amazon CloudWatch dashboards are customizable pages in the CloudWatch console that you can use to monitor your resources in a single view. This post focuses on deploying a CloudWatch dashboard that you can use to create a customizable monitoring solution for your AWS Network Firewall firewall. It’s designed to provide deeper insights into your firewall’s […]

AWS Network Firewall is a managed service that provides a convenient way to deploy essential network protections for your virtual private clouds (VPCs). In this blog post, we discuss Geographic IP Filtering, a new feature of Network Firewall that you can use to filter traffic based on geographic location and meet compliance requirements. Customers with […]

AWS Network Firewall is a managed firewall service that makes it simple to deploy essential network protections for your virtual private clouds (VPCs) on AWS. Network Firewall automatically scales with your traffic, and you can define firewall rules that provide fine-grained control over network traffic. When you work with security products in a production environment, you […]

In the evolving landscape of network security, safeguarding data as it exits your virtual environment is as crucial as protecting incoming traffic. In a previous post, we highlighted the significance of ingress TLS inspection in enhancing security within Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments. Building on that foundation, I focus on egress TLS inspection in this […]

AWS Network Firewall is a stateful managed network firewall and intrusion detection and prevention service designed for the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). This post concentrates on automating rule updates in a central Network Firewall by using distributed firewall configurations. If you’re new to Network Firewall or seeking a technical background on rule management, […]

When you’re designing a security strategy for your organization, firewalls provide the first line of defense against threats. Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers AWS Network Firewall, a stateful, managed network firewall that includes intrusion detection and prevention (IDP) for your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Logging plays a vital role in any firewall policy, as […]

AWS Network Firewall is a managed service that provides a convenient way to deploy essential network protections for your virtual private clouds (VPCs). In this blog, we are going to cover how to leverage the TLS inspection configuration with AWS Network Firewall and perform Deep Packet Inspection for encrypted traffic. We shall also discuss key […]

December 7, 2022: We added a caveat to the solution, for those using a traffic steering mechanism, in this post. Security and network administrators can control outbound access from a virtual private cloud (VPC) to specific destinations by using a service like AWS Network Firewall. You can use stateful rule groups to control outbound access […]

October 13, 2022: This post had been updated with diagram of Figure 1: Outbound internet access through Network Firewall from Amazon EKS worker nodes modified. This blog post shows how to set up an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster such that the applications hosted on the cluster can have their outbound internet access […]

AWS Network Firewall helps make it easier for you to secure virtual networks at scale inside Amazon Web Services (AWS). Without having to worry about availability, scalability, or network performance, you can now deploy Network Firewall with the AWS Firewall Manager service. Firewall Manager allows administrators in your organization to apply network firewalls across accounts. […]