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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
vinit s.
Unified Management and Strong Threat Protection in a User-Friendly Experience
Reviewed on Apr 26, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Enhanced unified management, strong security, and high-level threat protection help administrators manage the entire network more effectively. Overall, it feels more user-friendly.
What do you dislike about the product?
As a first-time user, I’ve found Checkpoint Security Guard can be difficult to manage at times. The console feels complex, mainly because there are so many features available within the management console.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Check Point network security feels like a strong safeguard against fragmentation because it offers a unified security management console. It has also helped me mitigate zero-day vulnerabilities, which makes day-to-day security management feel more consistent and controlled.
Vishnukumar M.
Well-Designed Posture Management and Upgraded IAM in Check Point Next Guard
Reviewed on Apr 26, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Check Point Next Guard’s posture management settings are well designed and useful for effective administration. The identity and access management features have also been upgraded in the required way.
What do you dislike about the product?
Checkpoint Security Guard can be difficult to manage at times for a first-time user, since the console feels more complex due to the many features available in the management console.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Checkpoint network security feels more like a guard against fragmentation because it provides a unified security management console. It has also helped mitigate zero-day vulnerabilities.
Oil & Energy
Check Point CloudGuard provides resilient cloud security with easy administration
Reviewed on Apr 21, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Cloud environments require even more resilient network security protection than on-prem datacenters. Check Point CloudGuard offers prevention from advanced threats and easiness in administration
What do you dislike about the product?
Additional cost is incurred when running third party firewall in the cloud, but Check Point CloudGuard offers reliable protection from the Internet based threats
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Check Point CloudGuard adds additional layer of protection to existing cloud security features, provides constant updates and wonderful single pane administrative interface
Sanjana C.
Centralized, Layered Defense with Strong Visibility and Logging
Reviewed on Apr 13, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about Check Point security is its centralized policy management and how it brings firewall, IPS, anti-bot, anti-virus, and sandboxing together into a single, layered defense model. It also stands out for strong logging, identity awareness, and solid visibility, which is helpful for audits as well as incident response.
What do you dislike about the product?
Security is widely respected for its high catch rates and robust "single pane of glass" management, it is often a "love it or hate it" platform. So broadly no issue to be report as of now
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It performs well across multiple categories. It offers a stronger security posture, helps reduce risk, enables a faster response to threats, and supports smooth operations overall. I also find the interface user-friendly.
ANKIT S.
Effective Threat Prevention and Unified Cloud Security Management
Reviewed on Apr 08, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It provides deep visibility and control, helping teams quickly detect, respond, and remediate threats across distributed environments.it stands out for combining scalability, automation, and high detection accuracy.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI sometimes feel outdated or slow at times, with occasional lag while loading dashboards or navigating settings.Logs can be detailed but not always easy to analyze, making issue resolution time-consuming.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Security gaps during vulnerability remediation
Fixing vulnerabilities takes time, leaving systems exposed.
Solution & Benefit: CloudGuard can apply real-time protection and “virtual patching” while fixes are in progress, minimizing exposure windows.
Fixing vulnerabilities takes time, leaving systems exposed.
Solution & Benefit: CloudGuard can apply real-time protection and “virtual patching” while fixes are in progress, minimizing exposure windows.