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AWS Firewall Manager

Overview

AWS Firewall Manager is a centralized security management service that lets you define and enforce firewall rules across multiple AWS accounts in an AWS Organization.

Features

  • Create security policies containing common firewall and protection rules
  • Automatically apply policies to supported services:
    • AWS WAF for ALB, API Gateway, and CloudFront
    • AWS Shield Advanced for ALB, CLB, NLB, Elastic IPs, and CloudFront
    • Security Groups for EC2, ALB, and ENI resources in a VPC
    • AWS Network Firewall for VPC-level protection
    • Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall for DNS filtering

Key Capabilities

  • Automatically applies rules to newly created resources
  • Enforces compliance across existing and future accounts in the Organization
  • Policies are regional, but can be replicated across regions as needed

Benefits

  • Centralizes security rule management for large, multi-account environments
  • Ensures consistent security configurations and compliance
  • Reduces operational overhead for security teams
 
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