Item: AWS Firewall Manager
Rating: 9
Author: Andrew Dahlstrom

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Amazon Web Services Firewall Manager is being used by our organization to manage the firewall settings across different user groups throughout our company. It has helped to simplify the administration of firewall settings for both onsite and remote workers. It also provides built-in protection from various types of DDoS attacks.

Pros and Cons

Centralize administration
Automatic protection
Cross-account protection

It could provide more tutorials
More training documents

Return on Investment

It has provided enhanced protection for our organizations resources
It has allowed for faster setup of new users

Alternatives Considered

CenturyLink Web Application Firewall (WAF)

AWS Firewall Manager provides a lot more functionality especially when it comes to larger organizations which can use the multi-account and cross-account automated management. It also provides a faster setup for new users provided that you have already well defined resource group policies in place. It is also more expensive than the WAF so you are paying for the enhanced management.

Key Insights

Do you think AWS Firewall Manager delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with AWS Firewall Manager's feature set?

Yes

Did AWS Firewall Manager live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of AWS Firewall Manager go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy AWS Firewall Manager again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Workplace by Facebook, Google Sheets, AWS Cloud9

Likelihood to Recommend

AWS Firewall Manager is well suited for situations where you have multi-account resource groups. In this situation Firewall Manager allows you to group resources by account, resource type, and by tag. It is also well suited for use with AWS Organizations and can automatically load the list of accounts from your AWS organization to allow you to group resources across different accounts. You would not get all of the advantages of Firewall Manager if you did not also use AWS Organizations.

Easily enable Multi-account and Cross-account policies with AWS Firewall Manager

Overall Satisfaction with AWS Firewall Manager