Benefits of Firewall Manager

Use a central administrator account to manage firewall rules across multiple AWS accounts.

Deploy managed rules, such as pre-configured WAF rules on your applications, across accounts.

Automatically enforce your defined security policies across existing and newly created resources.

Centrally deploy baseline security group rules to protect your virtual private clouds (VPCs).

Use cases for Firewall Manager

Enforce a primary set of security group rules with a common security group policy, while also deploying application-specific rules.

Create, configure, and maintain firewalls with common security policies across accounts and VPCs in your AWS Organizations structure.

Audit and clean unused or redundant security groups, and audit and control security group rules to identify high-risk rules.