Exciting news today out of Check Point. Today Check Point has announced it is launching Check Point Cloud Firewall as a Service into private preview.
This should come as no surprise to any of you, but I have been heavily involved in the launch of this offering across AWS and Azure and soon to be included is GCP. So what exactly is Cloud Firewall as a Service, and why would anyone be interested?
Well, Cloud Firewall as a Service makes a lot of sense for organizations running workloads in public cloud platforms because it removes much of the operational friction that comes with the traditional, self-managed firewalls while improving security consistency. Instead of deploying, scaling, patching, and monitoring firewall infrastructure yourself, the firewall is delivered as a fully managed service that scales automatically with the environment. You can get centralized policy management, threat prevention, and deep traffic inspection without worrying about all the usual constrains like capacity planning, upgrades, or high availability. For cloud teams, this means faster deployments, fewer operational headaches, and a clearer shared-responsibility model, allowing security teams to focus on defining strong policies and protection while the underlying firewall infrastructure are handled for you. The result is simpler, less complex environments and how cloud environments are meant to operate, and why cloud has been growing exponentially for years.
This is exactly why SaaS offerings have been growing and being adopted by everyone in large volumes, it just makes life easier…!
So what do you get from Check Point Cloud Firewall as a Service?
After working with AWS, Azure and GCP environments for years (urgh, now decades actually), one thing has become really clear to me. Most teams don’t struggle with security, they struggle with operational overhead. Cloud Firewall as a Service takes a lot of that pain away. There’s no infrastructure to size, deploy, patch, or babysit, and no more guessing whether you’ve over (or under) configured resources. The firewall just scales as your cloud traffic scales. Security teams stay focused on policy and outcomes, not uptime, upgrades, or failover designs.
What I also like about Cloud Firewall as a Service is the consistency it brings. You can apply the same security controls across AWS and Azure without reinventing your architecture every time, and you get enterprise inspection and threat prevention that goes well beyond what native firewalls typically offer, plus if your an existing Check Point Cloud Guard Network Security or Quantum customer, you can manage all your firewalls in one place. That old cliche of a single pain of glass becomes a true reality.
The shared responsibility model is cleaner too. You define what should be protected and how, while the service handles everything underneath. In practice, that means a simpler work life balance (no late night patching) and a security model that actually fits the way cloud environments are built.
Check Point Cloud Firewall as a Service is available now as a private preview on AWS and Azure marketplaces, and you can read more about it at the official announcement blog here.
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