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Check Point Check Point Cloud Firewall is a cloud-native security gateway that delivers automated, advanced threat prevention and multi-layered network security for assets that customers migrate to or store on AWS. Try it free for 30 days.
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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, and anti-bot. 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.
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 CloudGuard 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.
Flexible Licensing and Seamless AWS Integration: Deploy within minutes as either a single gateway, as a high availability cluster, or as an auto scaling group via Check Point CloudFormation templates (sk111013). Recommended deployment on a 4 vCPU instance for optimal performance. 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.
Getting Started: Supports both Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) and Bring Your Own License (BYOL) models with a flexible pricing model that supports both usage-based billing and contract-based subscriptions. Start your free 30-day trial to gain full access to CloudGuards features and capabilities. At the end of the trial, your subscription will automatically convert to a paid, usage-based plan, unless canceled beforehand. Request a private offer for custom pricing and terms. For a guided walkthrough, you may request a product demo through this listing.
Highlights
- Advanced Protection with Security Features: Firewall, DLP, IPS, Application Control, IPsec VPN, URL Filtering, Antivirus and Anti-Bot.
- 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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c6in.xlarge Recommended | $0.96 |
r5a.2xlarge | $1.58 |
c7a.12xlarge | $9.23 |
c7i-flex.16xlarge | $12.08 |
m6a.large | $0.84 |
c5n.4xlarge | $3.15 |
m6a.8xlarge | $6.16 |
c6in.8xlarge | $6.16 |
c6in.large | $0.84 |
r7a.4xlarge | $3.15 |
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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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Advanced Threat Prevention Capabilities
Firewall, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), application control, IPsec VPN, URL filtering, antivirus, and anti-bot protection against known and unknown threats.
Network Traffic Inspection and Control
Inspects and secures encrypted data flows between on-premises networks and AWS VPCs, including North-South traffic entering and exiting private subnets and East-West traffic between VPCs.
Unified Security Management
Centralized management via Check Point CloudGuard Security Management Server enabling consistent policy, log, and report management across AWS, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
Infrastructure-as-Code Integration
Integrates with Terraform and Ansible for policy automation and cloud-native scaling with dynamic adaptation of security policies based on real-time cloud metadata.
AWS Service Integration
Supports Gateway Load Balancer, AWS Security Hub, VPC Ingress Routing, AWS Traffic Mirroring, AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Outposts, and Amazon Macie with deployment options including auto-scaling groups and multi-AZ redundancy.
Intrusion Prevention System
Intrusion prevention (IPS) capabilities to detect and block malicious network traffic and attacks.
Data Leak Prevention
Data Leak Prevention (DLP) functionality to prevent unauthorized data exfiltration and breaches.
Geo-IP Blocking
Geo-specific policy enforcement that blocks traffic to and from specified countries based on geographic location.
AI-Powered Threat Intelligence
Advanced filtering powered by AI-driven threat intelligence from FortiGuard Labs to identify and block risky connections.
Dynamic Policy Management
Dynamic security policies that use cloud metadata tags to automatically follow cloud workloads without requiring static IP updates.
Advanced Threat Prevention
Safeguards network from known and zero-day threats including exploits, malware, spyware, and command and control attacks using researcher-grade signatures and machine learning inspection engine.
Advanced URL Filtering
Defends against phishing, ransomware, and web-based attacks using inline machine learning-based web security engine with real-time detection of previously unseen threats and dynamic policy controls.
File-Based Threat Detection
Identifies file-based threats through inline static and dynamic analysis in the cloud with proprietary hypervisor technology for detection of sandbox-resistant malware.
DNS Security
Detects and prevents sophisticated DNS-layer network attacks and data exfiltration attempts.
Dynamic Policy Management
Applies policy definitions to cloud assets based on AWS tags, Application IDs, User IDs, geographies, or zones with automatic adaptation to infrastructure changes without manual intervention.
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Customer reviews
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.
Rakesh R.
Industry-Leading Threat Prevention with Seamless Unified Management
Reviewed on Apr 07, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like its industry-leading threat prevention best, blocking 100% of malware and exploits with zero false positives per recent CyberRatings tests. The unified management console also stands out, offering consistent policies and visibility across multi-cloud and on-premises setups for seamless operations
What do you dislike about the product?
The main drawbacks of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security are its steep learning curve and complex initial setup, often requiring deep familiarity with Check Point ecosystems or cloud architectures. Users also criticize the high pricing, dated user interface with occasional lags, and limited support for some features like IPv6, serverless, or certain VPN modes
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Main Problems Solved
Multi-Cloud Complexity: Provides single-pane visibility and consistent policies for AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid setups, easing migrations without policy rework.
Threat Prevention Gaps: Delivers real-time blocking of exploits/malware (100% efficacy in tests), plus IaC integration for DevSecOps.
Misconfigurations & Drift: Continuous posture analysis, auto-remediation, and context-aware alerts fix vulnerabilities from code to runtime.
Multi-Cloud Complexity: Provides single-pane visibility and consistent policies for AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid setups, easing migrations without policy rework.
Threat Prevention Gaps: Delivers real-time blocking of exploits/malware (100% efficacy in tests), plus IaC integration for DevSecOps.
Misconfigurations & Drift: Continuous posture analysis, auto-remediation, and context-aware alerts fix vulnerabilities from code to runtime.
Banking
Strong Hybrid Cloud Security, but Setup Is Complex and Pricey
Reviewed on Apr 02, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It’s well known for offering consistent security rules across intricate hybrid and modern cloud options. It has defence mechanism against threats, malware & ransomeware
What do you dislike about the product?
Expensive prices and difficult initial setup and need high level tech knowledge to setup and it’s take long time into investigate, troubleshoot and finding root cause on issues found into setup
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Securing fragmented verticals, dynamic and modern cloud environments providing utility, preventive & detective functionalities, that eliminate security gaps and build shield to avoid attacks and helping zero-day attacks achievements
Oil & Energy
Clean UI, Seamless Multi-Cloud Security, and Strong AI-Driven Threat Prevention
Reviewed on Mar 20, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is how it brings together strong security with a well-rounded user experience across multiple areas. Its UI/UX is clean and intuitive, making it easier to manage complex policies without a steep learning curve, while its integrations with major cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP ensure seamless deployment in multi-cloud environments. Performance is reliable and scalable, adapting to changing workloads without creating bottlenecks. From a pricing and ROI perspective, it delivers solid value by consolidating multiple security functions into a single platform, reducing overall operational costs. The support and onboarding experience is also strong, with helpful documentation and guidance that make implementation smoother. Finally, its AI-driven intelligence and threat prevention capabilities stand out, leveraging advanced analytics and real-time threat intelligence to proactively identify and stop sophisticated attacks.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I dislike about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is that, while powerful, it can feel complex in certain areas. The UI/UX, although functional, can sometimes be overwhelming for new users due to the number of features and configuration options. Integrations are strong overall, but initial setup in multi-cloud environments can be time-consuming and may require specialized knowledge. In terms of performance, there can be occasional latency or overhead depending on how it’s configured, especially in high-throughput environments. From a pricing and ROI perspective, it can be on the expensive side compared to some competitors, particularly for smaller organizations. Support and onboarding are generally good, but response times and the depth of assistance can vary depending on the support tier. Lastly, while its AI and intelligence capabilities are robust, they can sometimes generate false positives, requiring additional tuning to avoid unnecessary alerts.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before using Check Point CloudGuard Network Security, we struggled with managing security consistently across multiple cloud environments, which led to fragmented policies, limited visibility, and increased risk of misconfigurations. It was difficult to keep up with evolving threats while also ensuring performance and compliance, and a lot of time was spent manually monitoring and adjusting security rules.
After implementing CloudGuard, we were able to centralize security management across all our cloud platforms, automate policy enforcement, and gain much deeper visibility into network traffic and potential threats. We struggled with inconsistent security and slow response times, but now we can detect and respond to threats in real time, which has significantly improved our overall security posture and reduced risk exposure.
As a result, we’ve seen clear benefits: security management time has been reduced by around 30–40%, incident response times have improved by up to 50%, and the consolidation of tools has helped lower overall operational costs. Additionally, automated scaling and smarter threat prevention have reduced downtime and minimized the impact of potential attacks, allowing the team to focus more on strategic work rather than constant firefighting.
After implementing CloudGuard, we were able to centralize security management across all our cloud platforms, automate policy enforcement, and gain much deeper visibility into network traffic and potential threats. We struggled with inconsistent security and slow response times, but now we can detect and respond to threats in real time, which has significantly improved our overall security posture and reduced risk exposure.
As a result, we’ve seen clear benefits: security management time has been reduced by around 30–40%, incident response times have improved by up to 50%, and the consolidation of tools has helped lower overall operational costs. Additionally, automated scaling and smarter threat prevention have reduced downtime and minimized the impact of potential attacks, allowing the team to focus more on strategic work rather than constant firefighting.
Sachin C.
Feature CloudGuard: Strong Protection with UI Learning
Reviewed on Mar 20, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
There are a lot of features that help protect the infrastructure, but most of them focus on prevention-first security, multi-cloud automation, and centralised management, among other things.
What do you dislike about the product?
Check Point CloudGuard doesn’t fall short from a security perspective, but I would suggest making it more user-friendly. In particular, simpler and more streamlined user reporting would help new admins adapt to the technology more efficiently.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Adds a full NGFW stack (IPS, sandboxing, AV, DLP, and URL filtering) with single-pane management across cloud and on-prem environments. It also provides stronger runtime blocking through checkpoints and a proven engine.