Take a look at various Cloud
Firewall Deployment Strategies
and why one might be better than another
Network Security is all about visibility, segmentation, and control. In cloud computing today, there are several technologies to accomplish these requirements including both native and third-party virtual appliances. Let’s navigate some of the reference architectures and a few the challenges associated with deploying a Firewall in the top two cloud providers, Amazon Web Service (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.
While there’re many options when deploying a Firewall, we will first discuss some of the high availability options and then look into centralizing Firewall deployment into a Hub and Spoke layout. We will also explore a more recently added feature in AWS leveraging Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB), released in November 2020.