AWS Network Firewall

AWS Network Firewall adds wildcard support for container attribute filters

AWS Network Firewall now supports wildcard matching in container attribute-based inspection filters for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS).

AWS Network Firewall Now Supports Stateful Rule Hit Counts

AWS Network Firewall now provides rule hit counts for stateful rules, giving network administrators and security engineers visibility into how often each stateful rule in the firewall policy matches network traffic.

[Preview Announcement] Re-introducing Forward Proxy as AWS Network Firewall Functionality

You can now use your Network Firewall with all its existing filtering capabilities and features as an explicit forward proxy.

AWS Network Firewall now supports container attribute-based inspection for Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS

Today, AWS announces container attribute-based rules for AWS Network Firewall, a capability that simplifies how you secure containerized workloads, including generative AI applications, running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and Amazon Elastic Container…

AWS Network Firewall now supports managed threat intelligence rules from VisionHeight

AWS Network Firewall now supports two new managed rule groups from VisionHeight, available through AWS Marketplace: Zero-Day Threat Protection, and Noisy Scanners and Tor Protection.

AWS Network Firewall updates default drop action for improved connection reliability

AWS Network Firewall now uses "Application drop established (server-directed only)" as the default stateful action for all newly created firewall policies, replacing the previous default of "Application drop established (bidirectional)" (formerly named "Application layer drop…

Enhancements to AWS Network Firewall Managed Rules from AWS Marketplace Partners

AWS Network Firewall now supports expanded Managed Rules from AWS Marketplace partners, with new rule group optimizations through partners to include up to 10 million domain name indicators and up to 1 million IP addresses in their managed rule groups.

AWS Network Firewall Launch in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. With this launch, European customers, particularly those in highly regulated industries, government agencies, and organizations with strict data sovereignty requirements, can deploy AWS…

AWS Network Firewall now supports firewall state change notifications through Amazon EventBridge

AWS Network Firewall now integrates with Amazon EventBridge to provide real-time notifications for firewall state changes and configuration updates.

AWS Network Firewall announces new price reductions

AWS Network Firewall has introduced two pricing improvements for customers. The service has added the hourly and data processing discounts on NAT Gateways that are service-chained with Network Firewall secondary endpoints.

AWS announces Flexible Cost Allocation in AWS GovCloud (US)

AWS Network Firewall now supports flexible cost allocation through AWS Transit Gateway native attachments in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, enabling you to automatically distribute data processing costs across different AWS accounts.

AWS Network Firewall now supports GenAI traffic visibility and enforcement with Web category-based filtering

AWS Network Firewall now provides visibility into generative AI (GenAI) application traffic and supports traffic filtering based on web categories.