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AWS Network Firewall

Understand how AWS Network Firewall secures Amazon VPC resources by monitoring and filtering network traffic. Explore key components like rule groups, firewall policies, and stateless and stateful rule engines. Learn best practices to effectively implement firewall rules that limit access, perform deep packet inspection, and enable traffic logging for enhanced security and compliance.

AWS Network Firewall is a fully managed firewall and intrusion detection service that is used to protect the resources inside the Amazon VPC. Through this service, we can monitor and filter the incoming and outgoing traffic for our VPC through resources such as AWS Direct Connect, internet gateways, or NAT gateways.

Following is an overview of the main features of AWS Network Firewall:

  • Limiting the types of domain names our application can access by creating customized lists.

  • Performing deep packet inspection of all the incoming and outgoing traffic for our VPC.

  • Allowing traffic only from specific AWS resources or IP addresses to enter our VPC.

  • Filter incoming ...