Overview
CloudGuard Network Security for AWS delivers advanced, multi-layered network security for the AWS cloud environment and protects cloud assets. Security features include Firewall, IPS, Application Control, IPsec VPN, Antivirus and Anti-Bot.
CloudGuard Network Security enables secure VPN connectivity between AWS and enterprise networks, data centers and secure clients with simplified setup, deployment and management. CloudGuard Network Security includes SSL/TLS traffic inspection with traffic forwarding and SNI support for advanced threat prevention inside secure SSL traffic.
The Check Point CloudGuard for AWS Security Blueprint provides best practices for designing a secure cloud-based deployment allowing agility, scalability and efficiency. The blueprint promotes automation of processes using APIs and supports Infrastructure As Code practices.
This CloudGuard Network Security gateway will be deployed as a single gateway, as a high availability cluster, or as an Auto Scaling group via Check Point CloudFormation templates (sk111013) or via automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, etc
This PAYG distributed security gateway is managed from a central Security Management Server, which provides consistent security policy management, enforcement, and reporting AWS and hybrid deployments within a single pane of glass.
The Security Management Server is not included in this offering. To manage CloudGuard Network Security Gateway it is recommended using Check Point Smart-1 Cloud (https://www.checkpoint.com/quantum/unified-cyber-security-platform/smart-1-cloud/ ).
Highlights
- Fully integrated and industry-leading advanced threat prevention security features include: Firewall, IPS, Application Control, IPsec VPN, Antivirus and Anti-Bot.
- Provides advanced threat prevention to inspect traffic entering and leaving private subnets in the VPC ("North-South") as well as between VPCs ("East-West"). Designed for the dynamic security requirements of cloud deployments, CloudGuard Network Security is cloud-native: it seamlessly integrates with native AWS controls to enable rapid deployment, while supporting network segmentation, AWS Transit Gateway, auto-scaling and high availability across multiple Availability Zones.
- Check Point is an APN Advanced Technology Partner with Networking and Security Competencies. CloudGuard Network Security is integrated with a broad range of AWS services,including AWS GWLB, AWS Cloud WAN, AWS Outposts, Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Security Hub, AWS Transit Gateway, AWS CloudTrail and VPC Flow Logs. CloudGuard Network Security also provides a library of CloudGuard CloudFormation templates (CFTs) to simplify deployment.
Details
Typical total price
$1.08/hour
Pricing
Free trial
Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
m5.large | $0.80 | $0.096 | $0.896 |
m5.xlarge | $0.91 | $0.192 | $1.102 |
m5.2xlarge | $1.50 | $0.384 | $1.884 |
m5.4xlarge | $3.00 | $0.768 | $3.768 |
m5.8xlarge | $6.42 | $1.536 | $7.956 |
m6i.large | $0.80 | $0.096 | $0.896 |
m6i.xlarge | $0.91 | $0.192 | $1.102 |
m6i.2xlarge | $1.50 | $0.384 | $1.884 |
m6i.4xlarge | $3.00 | $0.768 | $3.768 |
m6i.8xlarge | $6.00 | $1.536 | $7.536 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
Terminate the instance at any given time to stop incurring charges.
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Delivery details
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.
Additional details
Usage instructions
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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