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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is a cloud-native security gateway that delivers automated, advanced threat prevention and multi-layered network security for assets that customers migrate to or store on AWS. Try it free for 30 days.
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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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c6in.xlarge Recommended | $0.91 |
m5.4xlarge | $3.00 |
m6i.xlarge | $0.91 |
r5.24xlarge | $16.42 |
r5.large | $0.80 |
r5.8xlarge | $5.86 |
m6i.24xlarge | $16.42 |
r5a.xlarge | $0.91 |
r5b.12xlarge | $8.79 |
r5b.xlarge | $0.91 |
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Terminate the instance at any given time to stop incurring charges.
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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.
Support
Vendor support
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/Â
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Network Traffic Inspection
Inspects traffic entering and exiting private subnets in VPC ("North-South") and between VPCs ("East-West")
Advanced Threat Prevention
Provides multi-layered security capabilities including firewall, IPS, threat emulation, and threat extraction with advanced catch rates
Cloud Infrastructure Integration
Supports infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and Ansible, dynamically adapts security policies based on cloud metadata
Security Protocol Coverage
Comprehensive security features including Data Loss Prevention, application control, IPsec VPN, URL filtering, antivirus, and anti-Bot protection
Cloud Service Compatibility
Integrates with AWS services including Gateway Load Balancer, AWS Security Hub, VPC Ingress Routing, AWS Traffic Mirroring, and AWS Transit Gateway
Network Traffic Protection
Advanced cloud-native firewall service powered by FortiOS and FortiGuard Labs threat intelligence for securing cloud network traffic
Threat Intelligence
AI-powered intrusion prevention (IPS), data leak prevention (DLP), and advanced filtering capabilities to block malicious traffic and potential security breaches
Dynamic Policy Management
Security policies that dynamically use cloud metadata tags to follow cloud workloads without requiring static IP updates
Geo-Specific Security Control
Enforcement of compliance policies through geo-IP blocking and traffic restrictions to/from specified countries
Multi-Account Security Aggregation
Capability to consolidate security across multiple VPCs and accounts within an AWS region using a single firewall instance
Threat Prevention
Advanced machine learning-powered inspection engine that detects known and zero-day threats including exploits, malware, spyware, and command and control attacks
Web Security
Inline machine learning-based web security engine for real-time detection of phishing, ransomware, and evasive web-based attacks
File Analysis
Proprietary cloud-based hypervisor for static and dynamic file-based threat detection using advanced sandbox analysis techniques
Protocol Layer Security
Comprehensive security coverage across network layers including DNS-layer attack prevention and network data exfiltration detection
Traffic Visibility
Complete application layer-7 traffic inspection and control with dynamic policy management based on AWS tags, application IDs, and user contexts
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Customer reviews
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31 AWS reviews
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214 external reviews
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Computer Software
Powerful Threat Prevention with an Intuitive Dashboard
Reviewed on Nov 19, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
During the trial, We really liked how the dashboard clearly showed the threats, polices without overwhelming the team. The threat prevention engine is very strong and it blocks traffic smartly.
What do you dislike about the product?
One issue we noticed is that the initial setup feel a bit complex for our team. There are quite few configuration steps and it takes some time to fully understand everything.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CloudGaurd Network Security helped us strengthen our Zero Trust approach by giving us very clear control over which resources can communicate in in our cloud environment. It provides a solid firewall layer and cloud data security. During the trial, it made it much easier to identify risky traffic and block unauthorized access attempts. Overall it was so helpful for our team.
aditya t.
All-in-One Security Platform with Advanced Threat Detection
Reviewed on Nov 19, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
it's comes with multiple security technologies that automatically detect and block attacks and detects new attacks through machine learning. Network workloads identity app all secured from a single platform. my organization runs heavy workloads in the cloud guard is a great choice especially because of its advanced threat prevention auto scaling and centralized management.
What do you dislike about the product?
it's not exactly beginner friendly. configuration is much as per the cloud environment. it's very expensive . the device slows down when logging is heavy. support is slow and unresponsive and priority tickets are also closed late.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
prevents any unauthorized user from entering the cloud. cloud guard also catches unknown threats with AI based threat prevention . it's access control keeps data accessible only to authorized user.
Ivan S.
Cloud Security with Seamless Integration
Reviewed on Nov 19, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
What I appreciate most about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is the comprehensive protection it offers, along with its smooth integration into cloud environments. The platform delivers advanced threat prevention, centralized management, and scalability, all of which contribute to making the security of multi-cloud deployments both efficient and dependable.
What do you dislike about the product?
One aspect where Check Point CloudGuard Network Security could see improvement is in the complexity of its initial configuration and policy management. Although the platform offers robust capabilities, new users may find the learning curve quite steep at first. Nevertheless, after the system is properly configured, it provides outstanding security and control.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This solution addresses the challenge of securing multi-cloud environments by offering unified threat prevention and enhanced visibility. As a result, it helps us lower risk and makes management more straightforward.
Tapan K.
Powerful Security with Complex Setup
Reviewed on Nov 19, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I find Check Point CloudGuard Network Security to be exceptionally valuable for managing hybrid and multi-cloud environments efficiently. It offers robust automation and support features that assist in scaling operations smoothly. The platform helps ensure consistency across different environments, which significantly reduces errors and speeds up troubleshooting, making my workflow much more seamless and reliable. These features are crucial as they provide a streamlined process and ensure that the security measures are consistently applied, which greatly benefits my operations.
What do you dislike about the product?
I find Check Point CloudGuard Network Security not truly cloud-native, behaving more like a virtualized appliance rather than a fully integrated cloud-native service. Additionally, while the SmartConsole is powerful, it feels heavy and reminiscent of a pre-premises legacy console, which isn’t ideal considering most operations are moving to the cloud. Also, the initial setup wasn't straightforward; we had to navigate it ourselves, relying on available resources without much direct guidance.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Check Point CloudGuard Network Security to automate and secure my network, benefiting from its scalability and support in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. It reduces troubleshooting time by ensuring consistency across different environments.
Medical Devices
My review: Check Point CloudGuard Network Security
Reviewed on Nov 18, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
its very accurate and obviously the threat prevention. The IT team can manage cloud and premises protections set up to protect sensitive documents and information.
What do you dislike about the product?
Set up takes ages and as usual with this type of apps, the learning curve is very pronounced. User interface is not my favorite and and although there is guidance documentation, i would wish it were a bit more detailed
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's protecting the sensitive information thats managed from the product developement and manufacturing details to the customer's and supplier sensitive information.