Product Overview

Cloud Next-Generation Firewall (CNGFW) for AWS delivers best-in-class network security powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning, stopping zero-day exploits faster than traditional platforms. This fully managed turnkey cloud-native firewall service with 99.99% availability removes the complexity of managing firewall infrastructure in AWS. It lets you immediately turn on the next-generation firewall features and scale your security, ensuring seamless protection for your applications in the AWS environment.

Cloud NGFW extends your threat prevention capabilities across AWS environments and seamlessly integrates with key AWS services like AWS Firewall Manager, CloudWatch, Kinesis Firehose, and more. It provides real-time insights, automated security workflows, and granular traffic control for robust network protection. Recent enhancements include Strata Cloud Manager integration for centralized visibility and firewall-as-code enhancements.

Benefits

• Effortless Deployment and Zero-Operational Burden: Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW takes care of the complex operational tasks, allowing for seamless firewall deployment and management in AWS. It streamlines processes such as certificate management, software upgrades, patch management and multi-dimensional scaling to ensure 99.99% availability. By eliminating the challenges of managing and scaling firewalls yourself, you can deploy robust cloud protection in just a few clicks, without worrying about infrastructure management.

• Advanced Threat Prevention. Secure your AWS VPC traffic from zero-day attacks and unknown command-and-control traffic using Cloud-Delivered Security Services (CDSS) powered by Precision AI as well as Unit 42 Threat Research, enabling detection and mitigation 180x faster than traditional platforms.

• Real-Time Threat Detection. Protect your applications with advanced AI and ML-powered threat prevention, leveraging intelligence derived from 70,000+ global customers to stop zero-day exploits, DNS threats, and web-based threats before they impact your network. This extensive threat intelligence network continuously learns and adapts, providing unparalleled protection that evolves with the latest attack vectors.

• Granular Traffic Control. Gain visibility and precise control over your network traffic based on workloads, users, and applications with patented Layer 7 classification. Reduce attack surfaces and safeguard your AWS environment from malicious traffic.

• Centralized Visibility. Simplify security operations with centralized management using Strata Cloud Manager or Panorama. Gain comprehensive visibility into applications, users, and threats for more efficient security management, faster threat resolution, and optimized policy creation.

• Improved Metrics & Monitoring. Leverage AWS CloudWatch to monitor NGFW health, performance, and usage patterns in real-time, ensuring your security operations run at peak efficiency.

• Firewall-as-Code Enhancements. Automate your firewall deployment, policy enforcement and account management workflows with the support of APls, CloudFormation and Terraform. Eliminate manual interventions and streamline your security operations.

• Cloud NGFW is the Firewall-as-a-Service. Choose either AWS Firewall Manager or Palo Alto Networks Panorama for consistent policy management across multiple AWS accounts, enabling flexible control and seamless security across your cloud environments.

Activate your 30-Day free trial and create up to two next-generation firewall resources on your existing AWS VPCs, securing up to 100GB of traffic. After the free trial, you'll transition to a pay-as-you-go model, and you can check your subscription status on the Subscription Management page.