enforza Firewall & Secure NAT Gateway Reviews & Product Details

Enforza — cloud-managed firewall and secure NAT gateway Enforza is a cloud-managed firewall and secure NAT gateway that gives cloud, platform and security teams the same L3/L4/L7 egress control and secure NAT as the cloud-native services — at a flat, per-firewall price with no per-GB data-processing tax. For teams watching their AWS or Azure bill, that works out up to 60–80% cheaper than AWS Network Firewall, Azure Firewall, Google Cloud NGFW and cloud-native NAT gateways, because the price doesn't move with your traffic. It's not new. Enforza has been doing this for around three years, runs on the AWS Marketplace, and operates as a transparent AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) inspection appliance — a capability only a short list of enterprise NGFW vendors otherwise offer. Why teams switch Every cloud-native firewall meters you per GB of data processed — a tax that grows with every byte — usually on top of a per-hour endpoint fee that is duplicated for each Availability Zone. On AWS, a typical 2-AZ deployment runs two firewall endpoints (roughly $577/month before a single byte is inspected), then adds a per-GB charge on every byte after that. Enforza is a drop-in replacement: one appliance, flat per-firewall pricing, no per-hour endpoint fee, no per-GB charge. Because the price is fixed, the savings widen as your egress grows. (Honest note: Enforza replaces the firewall/NAT appliance and the per-GB tax. Your cloud provider's own infrastructure charges — compute hours, bandwidth — still apply. The 60–80% figure is directional; use the savings calculator on enforza.io for your own numbers.) Two ways to run it — your team's choice GitOps / GitHub Pipeline Integration. Manage firewall policy as code through a GitHub pipeline, with pull-request review, guardrail checks and an audit trail on every change. Policy-as-code for teams who already live in their pipeline. Cloud Controller console. Drive the same firewall by hand from a managed web console — define rules, manage your fleet, and see policy across clouds and regions from one place. Same firewall NVA underneath, same engine, same capabilities. The operating model is your decision, and you can run both across a fleet. Core capabilities Firewall (L3/L4/L7). SNI- and FQDN-based application filtering, plus network and VM objects, applied to egress, ingress and east-west (VPC-to-VPC, lateral) traffic — so movement between workloads is governed, not just the outbound path. No TLS decryption and no key custody, ever. Egress / SNI filtering. Control exactly which destinations your workloads can reach by hostname, with AWS IP-range and Azure Service-Tag imports kept current automatically. Secure NAT gateway. Managed outbound NAT without the cloud-native NAT gateway's per-GB processing charge — a direct answer to the Azure default-outbound-access retirement and to AWS NAT gateway cost reviews. GWLB inspection appliance. Run Enforza transparently behind an AWS Gateway Load Balancer for centralised, scalable traffic inspection — the architecture teams otherwise reach a mega-NGFW for. Consistent multi-cloud policy. One platform across AWS and Azure (GCP secondary): apply the same security policy across multiple clouds, regions and accounts, instead of re-learning each provider's native firewall. Compliance and governance. Advise-or-enforce guardrails check firewall-rule changes against 25 framework packs and over 200 controls, so policy stays compliant on every change rather than at audit time. High-performance engine. Enforza's own engine classifies and applies a verdict to each flow in microseconds, built on standard Linux network primitives. Your network, your data Enforza deploys as a network virtual appliance (NVA) inside your own cloud network — your VMs, your account, your routing. Traffic logs go to your own SIEM; they don't flow through Enforza's cloud. You keep ownership and control of your data, with no internet-exposed management plane to patch and defend yourself. Who it's for Cloud, platform, network and security engineers, SRE/DevOps leads and cloud architects — the people who own the egress policy and the cloud network bill. It fits teams running real workloads in AWS and/or Azure with enough egress and NAT traffic that the per-GB tax actually hurts: scale-ups, mid-market, cost-conscious enterprise teams, and MSP/MSSP fleets running firewalls for multiple clients. How Enforza compares vs AWS Network Firewall / Azure Firewall / Google Cloud NGFW: the same core L3/L4/L7 control and secure NAT, without the per-GB data-processing tax or per-AZ endpoint fees. You replace the metered firewall, keep the control, and deploy in your own network. vs enterprise NGFWs (Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point): the focused inspection and egress capability most cloud teams actually use — including GWLB inspection — at flat per-firewall pricing, without the bloat or vCPU-metered licensing of a full NGFW suite. vs DIY / open-source (pfSense, OPNsense, fck-nat): the same escape from per-GB NAT charges, but managed — HA, one console for the whole fleet, no SSH-into-boxes, no internet-exposed management plane, no DIY patching. Getting started Start on the free tier, run a 14-day trial of the full feature set, deploy one-click from the AWS Marketplace, or book a demo for fleet, MSP and enterprise rollouts. Flat per-firewall pricing, with volume pricing that lowers the per-firewall rate as your fleet grows. Enforza — the same control, run your way, without the per-GB tax.