

“You can really have the automation capabilities because it’s a cloud-native service, just like any other AWS service,” Oswal said.

Other features include threat prevention to stop malware, command-and-control communications and exploits of known vulnerabilities - as well as App-ID traffic classification to limit the risk of an attack.Īutomation capabilities, meanwhile, include support for API, AWS CloudFormation and HashiCorp Terraform templates, according to Palo Alto Networks. That means that customers are not responsible for any updating or management of the infrastructure, with the next-gen firewall benefiting from elastic scaling and high availability via the AWS Gateway Load Balancer, the company said.Ĭoncerning security, key capabilities for the Cloud NGFW for AWS include advanced URL filtering, which leverages deep learning to block zero-day threats in real time. “You get the best of both.” Fully managedĪlong with easy procurement via the AWS Marketplace - followed by setup and integration with other AWS services “within a few clicks,” he said - the new Cloud NGFW is a fully managed cloud service, according to Palo Alto Networks. The Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW for AWS, on the other hand, is “not only best-in-class and can stop these zero days and sophisticated threats - but it’s also easy to deploy and scale like other native AWS services,” Oswal said.
