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Deployed on AWS
Check Point CloudGuard WAFaaS is an AI-driven, fully managed web application firewall that provides advanced security for applications and APIs. It delivers real-time protection against zero-day threats, OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, DDoS attacks, and more, ensuring high availability, AWS security compliance, and uninterrupted service.
CloudGuard WAFaaS integrates seamlessly with AWS services, including Amazon Route 53, AWS WAF, AWS Shield, AWS API Gateway, Amazon CloudFront, and AWS Lambda, enabling automated threat prevention with minimal operational overhead.
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Overview
Check Point CloudGuard WAF-as-a-Service (WAFaaS) for AWS simplifies web application security by eliminating the complexity of traditional WAF solutions. Easily deployable via AWS Marketplace, it provides automated API discovery, schema validation, and real-time security updates to minimize misconfigurations and unauthorized data exposure.
Designed for cloud-native agility, CloudGuard WAFaaS integrates directly with AWS CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) frameworks such as AWS CloudFormation and Terraform. This allows security teams to embed protection into their AWS development workflows without slowing down innovation. It prevents cyber threats, including zero-day attacks, OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, bot-driven exploits, and large-scale DDoS attacks, ensuring uninterrupted service availability and security compliance.
CloudGuard WAFaaS delivers a non-agent WAF that can be deployed in less than 15 minutes. Traffic is effortlessly routed through Check Point servers, which automatically issue SSL certificates. Upon redirection, any HTTP requests are intercepted for inspection and forwarded to the application only after validating their security.
CloudGuard WAFaaS is available in premium and advanced packages (Advanced package does not include API Discovery and Zero-day file security).
ADVANCED PACKAGE: The Advanced package provides core protection features, including:
- AI-based zero-day prevention: Detects and blocks unknown threats before they exploit vulnerabilities.
- Intrusion Prevention System (IPS): Shields against OWASP Top 10 attacks with over 2,800 Web CVEs.
- AI-driven contextual analysis: Ensures precise threat detection with minimal false positives.
- Advanced DDoS mitigation: Protects applications from overload attacks while keeping services accessible.
- Rate limiting: Controls traffic flow based on IP address and XFF (limited to 5 rules).
- Bot prevention: Detects and blocks automated threats.
- Snort 3.0 signature enforcement: Provides deep packet inspection for enhanced security.
- Includes 3 months of full logs retention (based on the fair usage policy).
PREMIUM PACKAGE: The Premium package includes all Advanced Package features and adds:
- Real-time API discovery & governance: Monitors API traffic for sensitive data exposure and compliance.
- Auto-generated Swagger schema validation: Ensures API security by enforcing structure and access controls.
- Unlimited rate limiting: Expands traffic control beyond IP-based limits, including JWT, cookies, and headers.
- Zero-day file security: Blocks malicious uploads and emerging threats.
- Includes 6 months of full logs retention (based on the fair usage policy).
Highlights
- ZERO-DAY PREVENTION: CloudGuard WAFaaS has demonstrated prevention of zero-day exploits across a wide spectrum of security events, including log4shell, text4shell, and MOVEit, all in real-time.
- DEPLOYED WITHIN MINUTES: CloudGuard WAFaaS delivers a non-agent Web application Firewall, deployable within minutes. Only a one-time DNS configuration is necessary for CloudGuard to start routing traffic securely to applications in the cloud.
- PREVENT DDoS AND AUTOMATED ATTACKS: CloudGuard WAFaaS provides real-time detection and automatic mitigation protection against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and bot-driven assaults.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/month |
|---|---|---|
SaaS Premium - Up to 10M Req / Month | CloudGuard WAF-as-a-Service Premium | $1,800.00 |
SaaS Premium - Up to 20M Req / Month | CloudGuard WAF-as-a-Service Premium | $2,240.00 |
SaaS Premium - Up to 30M Req / Month | CloudGuard WAF-as-a-Service Premium | $2,680.00 |
SaaS Premium - Up to 40 Req / Month | CloudGuard WAF-as-a-Service Premium | $3,120.00 |
SaaS Advanced - Up to 10M Req / Month | CloudGuard WAF-as-a-Service Advanced | $1,500.00 |
SaaS Advanced - Up to 20M Req / Month | CloudGuard WAF-as-a-Service Advanced | $1,880.00 |
SaaS Advanced - Up to 30M Req / Month | CloudGuard WAF-as-a-Service Advanced | $2,260.00 |
SaaS Advanced - Up to 40M Req / Month | CloudGuard WAF-as-a-Service Advanced | $2,640.00 |
Additional pricing options: Custom sizing Req / Month | CloudGuard WAF-as-a-Service: Custom sizing | $100,000.00 |
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Customer reviews
Md Akil A.
Effective Security with Easy-to-Use Interface
Reviewed on Feb 16, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like the Check Point CloudGuard WAF's GUI, which is very easy to use. It effectively helps in providing security to applications by allowing and blocking IPs, which is especially useful as we work on zero internet in our project. If we know an IP is part of our internal or external client, we can easily allow that IP. Check Point CloudGuard WAF's security is a key reason why we switched from using Azure Firewall.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think internal DNS needs to be removed. Also, the initial setup isn't easy, and when we try to resolve any ip it getting resolved but not from given source
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Check Point CloudGuard WAF to provide security to our application, allowing us to manage IPs by allowing internal and external client IPs and blocking others.
Rohit K.
Comprehensive Security with Minimal Tuning
Reviewed on Feb 16, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I basically like that Check Point CloudGuard WAF provides all the protection without heavy tuning. It preemptively blocks threats including WACP top 10 risks with accurate detection and low false positives. It doesn't just rely on static signatures but improves resilience through anomaly and behavior analysis. The unified dashboard and detailed logging make investigation straightforward. It works well across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and others. Once policies are stabilized, the maintenance is kind of predictable.
What do you dislike about the product?
Managing policies can become harder across many apps without proper governance. The learning process for anomaly models takes time and can require tuning to avoid initial noise. Visibility can be overwhelming. While the schema-driven validation in API protection is strong, sometimes it needs tailored rule sets for customized API patterns. The initial setup, although structured, was not trivial and required planning. Policy complexity increases at scale, and initial behavior tuning needs attention. Licensing and costing plans need to accommodate large deployments.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Check Point CloudGuard WAF to solve core web application security issues by blocking malicious traffic and enforcing API validations. It also generates helpful logs and dashboards, improving our security workflow without manual intervention.
Rabindra K.
Effortless Hybrid App Security and Rock-Solid API Protection
Reviewed on Feb 13, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
What really stands out to me is how easy it is to manage across our hybrid environment it doesn’t care if our apps are in AWS, Azure, or on-prem, everything just works. The SSL offloading took a massive load off our backend servers, and the API protection has been rock solid. Honestly, I don’t have to think about WAF configs anymore, and that’s the dream.
What do you dislike about the product?
The reporting and logging could definitely be more intuitive I usually end up exporting logs just to make sense of them because the built-in tools feel clunky. Also, the dashboard sometimes takes a few extra seconds to load, which is more annoying than it should be for a product at this price point. Minor frustrations, but they add up.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were drowning in alert fatigue our old setup would ping us for every tiny anomaly, and half the time it was just noise. CloudGuard actually filters out the garbage and tells us what really needs attention, so my team can focus on actual threats instead of babysitting logs. It’s cut our incident response time in half and honestly made work a lot less stressful.
Telecommunications
Lower TCO and DevOps-Friendly Nano Agent
Reviewed on Feb 05, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is often lower because you don't need a full-time engineer just to babysit the WAF rules. The Nano agent is perfect in a devops environment
What do you dislike about the product?
Frustration where troubleshooting deep technical bugs results in a loop of being told to wait for a specific "hotfix" rather than receiving immediate configuration help.
Slow Response for Lower Tiers: If you aren't on a high-tier support plan, getting an L3 engineer on the phone for a P1 issue can take longer than desired.
Slow Response for Lower Tiers: If you aren't on a high-tier support plan, getting an L3 engineer on the phone for a P1 issue can take longer than desired.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CloudGuard WAF uses contextual AI to stop manual rule tuning and alert fatigue. It solves the "zero-day gap" by blocking threats like Log4Shell preemptively. Benefit from a 0.81% false positive rate and auto-API discovery that finds "shadow" endpoints. While pricey and complex to license, it saves massive dev time via automation.
Antonis Hassiotis
Web protection has simplified basic rule setup but still needs better multi-site flexibility
Reviewed on Feb 04, 2026
Review provided by PeerSpot
What is our primary use case?
I am using not only Fortinet, but I am also dealing with other vendors as well, such as Check Point. I am working with email security by Check Point. I have a little bit of experience with Check Point CloudGuard WAF , as we ran a proof of concept here.
What is most valuable?
The efficiency improvements provided by Check Point CloudGuard WAF are something I can describe. It was fairly easy to set up Check Point CloudGuard WAF if you are looking at the basic configuration. It was pretty acceptable with setting up rules, and so forth. If you were looking for advanced configurations, then you had to go for a different setup, and that made it a little bit complicated.
In terms of efficiency, Check Point CloudGuard WAF is very straightforward to set up rules because you really do not need to do much customization, as it is the case with all Cloud WAFs.
I have been familiar with Check Point CloudGuard WAF for about six months.
What needs improvement?
Check Point could improve or add more flexibility when it comes to migrating to different sites. Multi-tenancy is an area where Check Point has room for improvement.
How are customer service and support?
From what I saw, the customer support by Check Point was pretty good, but they were trying to sell it to us, so I would rate it eight out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have experience with FortiWeb, although we just stopped using them. We used to have FortiWeb for the last few years, but now we have actually stopped using them.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
The price of Check Point CloudGuard WAF is not expensive, as it was the cheapest solution we found. There is good competition for Check Point CloudGuard WAF at the moment, with big players in the market.
What other advice do I have?
If we selected Check Point CloudGuard WAF, which we did not, it would certainly be much cheaper. I would recommend Check Point CloudGuard WAF to others at a rating of seven out of ten. I would recommend it if you have a simple setup, then it is cheaper and it does the job. My overall review rating for Check Point CloudGuard WAF is seven out of ten.