Sold by: Check Point Software Technologies
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AWS Free Tier
Advanced threat prevention security for AWS and hybrid cloud environments, with Threat Extraction and Threat Emulation.
**Please note: To ensure optimal operations, Check Point recommends a 4 vCores machine size. This provides balanced efficiency and smooth performance, which most customers find ideal for their needs.
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Check Point Check Point Cloud Firewall is a cloud-native security gateway that delivers industry-leading threat prevention and multi-layered network security for workloads migrated to or deployed in AWS environments.
Comprehensive Cloud Network Security: Check Point Cloud Firewall for AWS protects cloud assets with a full suite of advanced security capabilities, including: firewall, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), application control, IPsec VPN, URL filtering, antivirus, anti-bot, threat extraction, and threat emulations. These features enable proactive defense against known and unknown threats, ensuring robust protection for cloud workloads.
Industry-Leading Threat Prevention: Check Point Cloud Firewall for AWS provides advanced threat prevention to secure AWS environments from sophisticated threats, unapproved access, and application-layer Denial of Service (DoS) attacks with industry-leading catch rates (Miercom 2025 and Cyberratings 2025).
Full Control of Network Traffic: Check Point Cloud Firewall for AWS ensures secure, encrypted data flows between your on-premises network and your AWS VPCs. It inspects traffic entering and exiting private subnets in the VPC ("North-South") as well as between VPCs ("East-West").
Unified Security Management: Extend on-premises security policies into the AWS cloud with unified, centralized management via Check Point Security Management Server. Manage policies, logs, and reports consistently across AWS, hybrid, and on-premises environments from a single pane of glass. This listing includes the gateway only. For management, use Check Point Smart-1 Cloud: https://www.checkpoint.com/quantum/unified-cyber-security-platform/smart-1-cloud/
Automated, Scalable Cloud Security: Integrates with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and Ansible for policy automation and cloud-native scaling. CloudGuard dynamically adapts security policies based on real-time cloud metadata and changes. Supports AWS Transit Gateway, auto-scaling, high availability, and multi-AZ redundancy.
Seamless AWS Integration: Check Point Cloud Firewall integrates with a broad range of AWS services, including Gateway Load Balancer, AWS Security Hub, VPC Ingress Routing, AWS Traffic Mirroring, AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Outposts, and Amazon Macie.
This Check Point Cloud Firewall gateway will be deployed as a single gateway, as a high availability cluster, or as an Auto Scaling group via Check Point CloudFormation templates (sk111013) or via automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, etc. This BYOL-distributed security gateway is managed from a central Security Management Server, which provides consistent security policy management, enforcement, and reporting across AWS and hybrid deployments within a single pane of glass. The Security Management Server is not included in this offering. To manage Check Point Cloud Firewall Gateway it is recommended using Check Point Smart-1 Cloud (https://www.checkpoint.com/quantum/unified-cyber-security-platform/smart-1-cloud/ ).
Highlights
- Advanced Protection with Security Features: firewall, DLP, IPS, application control, IPsec VPN, URL Filtering, antivirus, anti-bot, threat extraction, and threat emulation. Includes Security Management Server.
- Industry-Leading Threat Prevention: Cutting-edge threat prevention with industry-leading catch rate of malware, ransomware and other types of attacks (per Miercom and Cyberratings, 2025).
- Unified Security Management: Provides consistent visibility, policy management, logging, reporting and control across hybrid-clouds and on-premises from a single pane of glass.
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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Once the instance is running, connect to it using SSH, set an admin password using: 'set user admin password' followed by 'save config'. Then connect to https://[instance] using Internet Explorer (IE) to finalize the configuration. Notes:
- SSH password authentication is disabled in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
- For information regarding Firefox and Chrome refer to sk121373.
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This offer includes Premium Support. For the full list of included support services visit: https://www.checkpoint.com/support-services/support-plans/ To open a support ticket, you would need to have a Check Point user center account. If you do not have a user center account, you can sign up for one here: https://accounts.checkpoint.com . Need support? Contact us at https://www.checkpoint.com/support-services/contact-support/
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**Please note: To ensure optimal operations, Check Point recommends a 4 vCores machine size. This provides balanced efficiency and smooth performance, which most customers find ideal for their needs.
Customer reviews
Information Technology and Services
Flexible SMS and MDS Models Make Check Point Cloud Firewall Stand Out
Reviewed on Jul 03, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The best about checkpoint cloud firewall is its two models, sms and mds. The checkpoint sms is the end firewall and mds is the top one which manages sms
What do you dislike about the product?
The dislike about check point is its not up to date like palo alto/fortinet as they are the market leaders with lot of capabilities which are lacking in checkpoint
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problem that checkpoint cloud firewall solving is security rule creation and rule placement. I use checkpoint smart console to access checkpoint sms device and creates rule. I used to automate these kind of usecases using external scripting to avoid manual errors
Anonymous
Centralized Cloud Security with a Learning Curve
Reviewed on Jun 25, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like how Check Point Cloud Firewall strikes a balance between strong security and ease of management. It provides comprehensive visibility into network traffic and cloud workloads, making it much easier to identify potential risks and investigate issues before they become serious problems. I also appreciate the centralized control it offers over network security, allowing us to enforce policies consistently and gain better visibility into traffic flows. Additionally, the integration with other tools like Microsoft Sentinel as our primary SIEM platform and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint helps us correlate network-level threats with endpoint-level activity, which is really beneficial for our security operations.
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial setup and configuration can be quite complex, especially for organizations that are new to cloud security or have multi-cloud environments. Some advanced features also require a deeper learning curve before teams can take full advantage of them. When we first deployed Check Point Cloud Firewall in our environment, the initial configuration of security policies and rules sets took considerably longer than expected. For teams without prior Check Point experience, mapping existing on-premises firewall rules to the cloud environment required significant planning and expertise. A more guided, wizard-driven setup process for common deployment scenarios, particularly for AWS and Azure environments, would have reduced that initial friction considerably. Honestly, the initial setup of Check Point Cloud Firewall was one of the more challenging aspects of the overall deployment. I would rate it moderately complex, and I think it's important to be transparent about that for any organisation considering the platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Check Point Cloud Firewall to secure our cloud environment, ensuring consistent security controls and better visibility into network traffic and threats, solving our challenge of maintaining network security.
Sandip K.
Strong Cloud Security and Easy Policy Creation with Check Point Cloud Firewall
Reviewed on Jun 17, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like check point cloud firewall because it has very strong cloud security and also it is very easy to use and also it has a very effective threat prevention capacity and also we can easily create policy in check point cloud firewall.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike most about check point cloud firewall is that the setup is little bit complicated at first, so new users need more time to get familiar with product and also requires guidance for new users to understand the features of it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The check point cloud firewall helps us to protect cloud environment from attack and also prevent from unauthorized access from the internet. It helps us to improve network security in our cloud environment and also gives visibility of network and easy policy.
Financial Services
Top-Notch Cloud Firewall with Powerful Threat Prevention
Reviewed on Jun 16, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Excellent cloud firewall! The main benefits are powerful Threat Prevention and centralized policy management. Deployment is seamless, and the security is top-notch.
What do you dislike about the product?
Heavy and complex tool. SmartConsole has a steep learning curve. Setting up auto-scaling in the cloud is tricky, and premium licensing is costly.
. But overall is ok
. But overall is ok
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves cloud security gaps with advanced threat prevention and central control. It benefits me by blocking complex attacks and easing policy management.
Rayaan A.
Comprehensive Traffic Control with a Learning Curve
Reviewed on May 05, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like how easy it is to manage all our network rules in one place instead of juggling different tools. It also gives clear visibility into traffic, which makes it much easier to spot and fix issues quickly. Having everything in one place saves a lot of time. Instead of jumping between different cloud tools, we can update rules, review logs, and troubleshoot issues from a single dashboard, which makes day to day work much smoother.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some parts feel more complicated than they need to be, especially when setting up or fine-tuning policies. It can take a bit of trial and error to get everything working the way we want. Policy setup can feel a bit layered, especially when you are trying to understand how different rules interact. It would help if there were clearer guidance or examples built into the workflow, so you don't have to rely as much on documentation or trial and error.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Check Point CloudGuard Network Security to control network traffic in our cloud environment. It simplifies managing rules across tools, catches unusual activity early, and provides a single dashboard for smoother operations.