pfSense Firewall/VPN/Router
Netgate | 2.3.4Linux/Unix, Other FreeBSD pfSense 2.3.4/FreeBSD 10.12 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Fantastic as always
At the last minute, I needed to move part of my AWS solution to multiple external dedicated server providers (bandwidth costs!). So, machines that used to live in the private cloud with all their friends suddenly had to live in a faraway place. How could they talk to their friends? Netgate pfsense to the rescue. It was easy to set up a VPN on pfsense, and easy to configure the remote hosts with openvpn. It just worked. It was easier than setting up AWS's Virtual Private Gateway, and can handle multiple clients! I am a huge pfsense fan, so no surprise that this solution was perfect for me.
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Good product, but phenomenal support
We're migrating away from NAT instances and six Virtual Private Gateway connections to a single instance running pfSense. So far, everything works well and we'll cut our VPN costs by more than 50%. Good stuff. But wow, what support! I opened a ticket to get some help configuring IPSec tunnels, and was instantly into a live session with their support rep – and it turned into a multi-hour marathon with a highly capable tech on the other end. We wound up debugging a whole bunch of things beyond the simple IPSec problem, and he stuck with it until we had everything up and running smoothly. So yeah, the product is good, the pricing is good, but the people behind it are awesome!
Works like charm.
I have been using pfSense for many years. Its amazing project/product having more 200 000 users globally. I have build own AMI for AWS and understand a lot of work put in to pfSense to run on AWS. New version coming 2.3 will brings a lot that helps to upgrade process on AWS with Repositories etc.
If you understand how AWS network plumbing works then you will have no problem to use pfSense. It is reasonable price for all features it offers. If you can take advantage of many features you will save a lots of money using pfSense compare to other products. Its all about to be able do design it all well.
We use pfSense on AWS and is great to forward AWS DNS records using DNS resolver. Multi global IP address allocation per single interface using Virtual IPs functions with Elastic Global IP. Provide internet access to many servers and much more.
I recommend this product for AWS.
Consistent decent performance after tuning
We sit close to 300mbps over our OpenVPN link after we used the system tunable mentioned here: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,47567.0.html
Performance is decent and the product is great for the rest of our private networking and NATing needs - we still use elastic load balancers for publishing content to the net.
Simple to setup and exactly what I expected!
After messing around with other OpenVPN and Firewall products, I stumbled upon Netgate's pfSense appliance and almost jumped up and down! A super-easy to use and configure solution, I had users VPN'ed into my VPC within 30 minutes of launching this AMI! Documentation was simple and clear, and I couldn't be happier!