Centrally configure and manage firewall rules across your accounts

Benefits of Firewall Manager

Centralize firewall administration

Use a central administrator account to manage firewall rules across multiple AWS accounts.

Deploy managed rules across accounts

Deploy managed rules, such as pre-configured WAF rules on your applications, across accounts.

Automatically enforce policies for existing and new resources

Automatically enforce your defined security policies across existing and newly created resources.

Centrally deploy rules to protect VPCs

Centrally deploy baseline security group rules to protect your virtual private clouds (VPCs).

Use cases for Firewall Manager

Protect applications hosted on EC2 instances

Enforce a primary set of security group rules with a common security group policy, while also deploying application-specific rules.

Deploy tools at scale to protect data

Create, configure, and maintain firewalls with common security policies across accounts and VPCs in your AWS Organizations structure.

Continually audit resources

Audit and clean unused or redundant security groups, and audit and control security group rules to identify high-risk rules.