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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security 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: CloudGuard Network Security 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 emulation, and threat extraction. These features enable proactive defense against known and unknown threats, ensuring robust protection for cloud workloads.
Industry-Leading Threat Prevention: CloudGuard Network Security 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.
Full Control of Network Traffic: CloudGuard Network Security 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 CloudGuard 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/Â
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.
Flexible Licensing and Seamless AWS Integration: Deploy within minutes as either a single gateway, as a high availability cluster, or as an auto scaling group via Check Point CloudFormation templates (sk111013). Recommended deployment on a 4 vCPU instance for optimal performance. CloudGuard Network Security 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.
Getting Started: Supports both Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) and Bring Your Own License (BYOL) models with a flexible pricing model that supports both usage-based billing and contract-based subscriptions. Start your free 30-day trial to gain full access to CloudGuards features and capabilities. At the end of the trial, your subscription will automatically convert to a paid, usage-based plan, unless canceled beforehand. Request a private offer for custom pricing and terms. For a guided walkthrough, you may request a product demo through this listing.
Highlights
- Advanced Protection with Security Features: Firewall, DLP, IPS, Application Control, IPsec VPN, URL Filtering, Antivirus, Anti-Bot, Threat Emulation and Threat Extraction.
- 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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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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Improved security posture and streamlined compliance while user interface could be more intuitive
What is our primary use case?
The main use case for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is for perimeter security and analyzing traffic in the network environment.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security offers deep visibility into traffic, detailed logs, and real-time monitoring to see what applications, users, and devices are communicating on the network. Apart from that, it prevents lateral movement, stops phishing attacks, and mitigates DDoS. The main use case is to provide protection for a hybrid environment such as on-prem and multi-cloud by having consistent security. It enforces zero trust access to critical applications.
What is most valuable?
The best features that Check Point CloudGuard Network Security offers include deep visibility into traffic, detailed logs, and real-time monitoring to see what applications, users, and devices are communicating on the network. Apart from that, it prevents lateral movement, stops phishing attacks, and mitigates DDoS. The solution provides protection for hybrid environments such as on-prem and multi-cloud by having consistent security and enforces zero trust access to critical applications.
The best feature is unified threat prevention, including IPS, antivirus, anti-bot, URL filtering, and Sandboxing in one platform. It provides seamless integration with AWS , Azure , and GCP. Furthermore, it offers centralized management from which we can manage security policies across cloud and on-prem solutions in a single console, known as Smart Console. From this, we can implement automation and DevOps support, as well as infrastructure as code security templates for faster deployment.
Cloud-native integration automatically adapts to changes in our AWS , Azure , or GCP environments; for instance, if a new workload is spun up, policies are applied instantly. Centralized management offers one console for both on-prem and multi-cloud environments. Additionally, automation and DevOps support allow security policies to be deployed as code and integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has positively impacted our organization by improving our security posture. We have seen a sharp reduction in successful intrusion attacks because of its unified threat prevention, along with greater visibility and control. CloudGuard gave us full visibility into east-west traffic inside our local or cloud environment. Previously, we monitored north-south traffic, which helped detect unauthorized lateral movement early. It has enabled faster incident response and stronger compliance with standards such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR, which made audits smoother and helped us maintain continuous compliance in the cloud.
What needs improvement?
Areas for improvement for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security include user interface and usability, pricing and licensing, integration with third-party tools, reporting and analytics, depth of automation, and support.
In terms of user interface and usability, the Smart Console UI is feature-rich; however, for new admins, navigation is not always intuitive, and log search feels clunky compared to SIM tools. Policy editing could be faster with bulk or drag-and-drop options, and dashboards need more customization. Streamlining these would make day-to-day use much better.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Check Point CloudGuard Network Security for the past one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is stable.
How are customer service and support?
Customer support for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is average. I would rate the customer support as six on a scale of 1 to 10.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment from using Check Point CloudGuard Network Security in both money and time saved.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with the pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is that it was good.