# Google Cloud Firewall Reviews **Vendor:** Google **Category:** [Firewall Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/firewall-software) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 6 ## About Google Cloud Firewall Scalable, cloud-native firewall service Fully distributed, cloud-native, firewall service delivers granular control, including micro-segmentation without network re-architecting. ## Google Cloud Firewall Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users praise the **ease of use** of Google Cloud Firewall, highlighting its simple management and user-friendly interface. (3 reviews) - Users appreciate the **deployment ease** of Google Cloud Firewall, finding it user-friendly and well-supported for their needs. (2 reviews) - Users praise the **seamless integration and ease of use** of Google Cloud Firewall, enhancing daily operations effectively. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **seamless integration** of Google Cloud Firewall with GCP services, enhancing their overall experience. (2 reviews) - Users value the **cost-saving features** of Google Cloud Firewall, enhancing overall efficiency and budget management. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **excellent customer support** of Google Cloud Firewall, which facilitates easy implementation and daily use. (1 reviews) - Customization (1 reviews) - Data Analytics (1 reviews) - Ease of Implementation (1 reviews) - Easy Management (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **limited features** of Google Cloud Firewall restricting, lacking integration with external resources and modern technologies. (2 reviews) - Users find the **complexity of network management** in Google Cloud Firewall a challenge that complicates their experience. (1 reviews) - Users face **cost issues** due to additional charges for processing large volume data with Google Cloud Firewall. (1 reviews) - Users find that **dependency issues** can complicate integration with third-party services, requiring additional expertise. (1 reviews) - Users often face a **difficult learning curve** with Google Cloud Firewall, making initial setup challenging for newcomers. (1 reviews) - Users find that **expertise is required** for effective use of Google Cloud Firewall with third-party services. (1 reviews) - Users note the **lack of features** , as it only manages traffic within VPC networks, limiting broader control. (1 reviews) - Users note the **lack of interfaces** , limiting traffic control to VPC networks and excluding other environments. (1 reviews) ## Google Cloud Firewall Reviews ### 1. Google Cloud Firewall: A perfect guard for your cloud applications and services **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ayush T. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firewall?** The seemless smooth integration of Google Cloud Firewall with other GCP services and products makes it an impeccable service in itself. The ease of defining and managing the firewall rules and services and applying it to the application is all what you can ask for. It does provide an interactive and effective monitoring system to navigate the data. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firewall?** It sometimes limits the volume of data being exchanged. Using Google Cloud Firewall with any other third party service can be a bit tacky and would require expertise. **What problems is Google Cloud Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?** Google Cloud Firewall helps in having a uniform security posture across all the regions and zones which helps in ensuring the expected safety net. Google Cloud Firewall very smoothly can be extended to your Kafka or Pub/Sub Service for queue service. ### 2. Google Cloud Firewall Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lakshmi Harika V. | Associate, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firewall?** I find it more useful and easy to use and allows us to manage inbound and outbound traffic to and from your Google Cloud resources. It's an part of network helps us to protect the services **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firewall?** It is limited to VPC Networks. It is limited to controlling traffic within the context of VPC networks and does not extend directly to resources outside of GCP or to other cloud environments. **What problems is Google Cloud Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using Google cloud firewall, i can easily deny the access to specific IP address to a VM. ### 3. Easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firewall?** I have used some top cloud products and compared to them Google Cloud is much easier and has a clean UI. It is very easy to scp into VMs and manage them. It is easy to add your public keys to the VMs so you can access them from your local machine. Implementing scripted VMs, images from the marketplace or just using default Linux or Windows images is pretty easy. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firewall?** I wish it was more popular than it is. It is missing all the latest services that other cloud products are providing like AI models etc. The one complicated part that I don't like is network management. You need to create and add tags at a few different places to use a particular network on a VM. **What problems is Google Cloud Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?** I like how uncomplicated the UI is and you can get elastic IPs easier on GCloud vs other cloud products. It is also easy to manage and maintain VMs. ### 4. best Cloud Firewall yes you can say that **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yash K. | Cyber Security Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firewall?** easy in use, easy implementation, customer support is good, we deployed it with the help of support, using it daily, alot of features are there, integration is easy. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firewall?** it took some time someone new to use this platform. **What problems is Google Cloud Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?** securing users from threats coming from outside ### 5. KISS solution for firewall rules in your VMs and Network Services in Google Cloud Console **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manuel Roberto V. | Desarrollador y dueño, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firewall?** Ease of use, it's a really simple solution for creating rules (inboud or outbound) for your services. You can select ports, protocols and priorities and define filters and more. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firewall?** It's very simple to use that you can get confused. Managament of various rules can get difficult **What problems is Google Cloud Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?** Rules for VMS network management, getting ports outside and inside (network inbound or outbound) of your project ### 6. Google cloud is a best storage tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bhushan B. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Firewall?** Google cloud is well known for its security and cost savings and it also provides tools for data analytics, machine learning, and AI. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Firewall?** While operating for large volume data additional charges are applied. **What problems is Google Cloud Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?** Google Cloud allows us for seamless data storage and data analysis. - [View Google Cloud Firewall pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-firewall/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-15+08%3A34%3A36+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=9ec02bd0-28db-4b6b-ad95-5e101afa24b5&secure%5Btoken%5D=bce4d51a77791076504559f77145dc84812b6d26aa1b8e07620dcd49cbea65ed&format=llm_user) ## Google Cloud Firewall Features **Administration** - Policy Management - Logging and Reporting - Application Gateway - Concurrent Sessions **Agentic AI - Firewall Software** - Autonomous Task Execution - Adaptive Learning **Functionality** - Virtual Private Network (VPN) - Antivirus - URL Filtering - Availability **Monitoring** - Load Balancing - Continuous Analysis - Intrusion Prevention - Intrusion Detection **Generative AI** - AI Text Summarization **Artificial Intelligence - Firewall** - AI Firewall ## Top Google Cloud Firewall Alternatives - [Sophos Firewall](https://www.g2.com/products/sophos-firewall/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (576 reviews) - [Check Point Next Generation Firewalls (NGFWs)](https://www.g2.com/products/check-point-next-generation-firewalls-ngfws/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (502 reviews) - [Netgate pfSense](https://www.g2.com/products/netgate-pfsense/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (317 reviews)