AWS includes open-source Suricata for stateful inspection with Network Firewall service

AWS includes open-source Suricata for stateful inspection with Network Firewall service

AWS has announced Network Firewall, a new service drawing on the open-source Suricata project.


The Firewall Manager is a centralised service for configuring firewalls across accounts and applications within an AWS user organisation, this being a way of managing multiple AWS accounts.


The new AWS Network Firewall moves beyond the existing services by adding more intelligent rules using the open-source Suricata project for intrusion detection.



Diagram showing AWS Network Firewall protecting an VPC



"Network Firewall uses the open source intrusion prevention system (IPS), Suricata, for stateful inspection," say the AWS docs
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