AWS Firewall Manager vs AlgoSec comparison

AlgoSec and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are both solutions in the Firewall Security Management category. AlgoSec is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.9, while Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.0. AlgoSec holds a 22.8% mindshare in Firewall Security Management, compared to Amazon Web Services (AWS)’s 3.7% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of AlgoSec users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

AlgoSec and AWS Firewall Manager are two competing products in the firewall management category. AlgoSec appears to have the upper hand in cross-vendor support and granular risk analysis, while AWS Firewall Manager excels in AWS integration and centralized policy management.

Features: AlgoSec provides detailed risk analysis, real-time monitoring, and policy optimization for multi-vendor firewalls, featuring tools like FireFlow for change management and BusinessFlow for application-focused network visibility. AWS Firewall Manager integrates seamlessly with AWS cloud services, offers centralized policy management across AWS accounts, and provides auto-scaling capabilities.

Room for Improvement: AlgoSec could improve its support for cloud integrations and expand its vendor range. Additionally, its UI and real-time analysis need enhancements to address user-reported performance issues. AWS Firewall Manager's array of features can be overwhelming, complicating user interaction and increasing the likelihood of user confusion.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: AlgoSec is mainly used in on-premises and hybrid environments, offering high customization but challenging initial deployments. Customer support is generally rated well, but some users face delays. AWS Firewall Manager is better suited for public and hybrid cloud environments, bolstered by AWS's strong infrastructure and excellent technical support, despite some limitations in localized support.

Pricing and ROI: AlgoSec is perceived as costly but delivers good ROI through enhanced security and automation, minimizing manual work and operational expenses. It requires upfront investment for its optimization features. AWS Firewall Manager uses a pay-as-you-go model, offering flexibility and scalability, though costs can rise with increased service use.

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Categories and Ranking

AlgoSec

Ranking in Firewall Security Management

1st

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

186

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

AWS Firewall Manager

Ranking in Firewall Security Management

9th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Firewall Security Management category, the mindshare of AlgoSec is 22.8%, up from 21.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of AWS Firewall Manager is 3.7%, down from 5.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Firewall Security Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
AlgoSec	22.8%
AWS Firewall Manager	3.7%
Other	73.5%

Firewall Security Management

Featured Reviews

SAURABH JAMBHULKAR

Senior cybersecurity Consultant in CSP at Tata Consultancy

Empowers organizations to reduce change management time by 80% and improve audit efficiency

AlgoSec offers essential features such as risk management, policy optimization, change management, traffic simulation, and compliance auditing. Risk management is crucial for security, enabling deep analysis and threat prioritization, while traffic simulation allows interactive diagnostics for operational traffic management. Change management includes tools for monitoring policy changes and ensuring compliance with security standards, making these features significant for any organization. AlgoSec positively impacts my organization by reducing operation burden, enhancing time efficiency, and saving costs associated with security management. AlgoSec firewall analyzer helps with policy complexity by identifying unused or redundant rules and objects, recommending optimizations such as merging similar rules and removing unnecessary allows. Over time, firewalls can accumulate risky configurations, leading to increased overhead and troubleshooting time, but with AlgoSec, we simplify our rule sets, improve firewall performance, and facilitate faster change implementations.

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Karthik Ekambaram

Director at Scybers

Has centralized rule management and improved protection against suspicious traffic but needs better threat intelligence integration and automated policy enforcement

I have not compared AWS WAF with any other WAF solution yet, but whatever WAF you choose, there will always be challenges, and it cannot block all malicious traffic. For AWS WAF, we have seen cases where it allowed suspicious HTTPS headers even if they carried malicious payloads. However, the malicious payloads are not straightforward, and there are assembly scripts that come with the HTTP headers that sometimes AWS WAF misses. In the last four or five years, we have seen a case where WAF was unable to capture a threat. On the other hand, we also see alerts from WAF indicating that it has figured out many DDoS protection alerts and was able to block them, even with rate limiting. Rule-based WAF works perfectly fine, but I don't think any threat intelligence-based WAF solutions can be 100% accurate. The integration with AWS Organizations and enforcement of security policies, particularly SCP, is difficult to deploy in most of my companies due to client environments. When I say difficult, it depends on the client's organization processes, not AWS itself. The SCP feature is excellent in my view and is the best way to reduce the attack surface for organizations structured in a specific manner. While we have used it internally, limited features of SCPs can be utilized by customers. Regarding automating security policy deployment, we have utilized automated security policy features, but it is difficult in some instances. We have identified what has been identified, but enabling automated SCP policies can be restrictive, which is actually good but makes it hard to implement for all organizations. Automating security policy features could understand the customer's environment better. An AI- or ML-enabled automated SCP could be a better option since it can understand the actions of administrators or developers in the customer's organization within the AWS platform, providing more in-depth automated assessments and SCP features. I rate this solution 8 out of 10.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The most valuable feature is the Firewall Analyser, which has a number of fantastic features."

"The Firewall Analyser feature is the most important and valuable part of this tool. This provides quick and simple visibility on the firewall's risk assessment."

"It gives us 100% visibility into our network security policies. It has given us a couple of surprises. Over the years, the network that we are administrating has been subject to people who have an idea of how a network should be set up. That differs from technician to technician or engineer to engineer. So, we are finding little pockets of hidden little self-engineered configurations and the way things were done that nobody knew about. Once the engineer left, the knowledge of that setup disappeared. You don't know about those until something either goes wrong, or you get something like AlgoSec to discover it for you, and it says, "Hey, there is this going on over here.""

"The Compliance module is one of the best features which can help anyone to perform security review with predefined security matrix configurations. The compliance module can save a lot of time for security reviews and provide full visibility of the risk required in firewall change requests."

"The solution provides us with full visibility into the risk involved in firewall change requests. This is very important for us because we are regulated according to the FDA. It shows us which changes have been made and why. So, it has worked very well for our compliance needs."

"We are moving towards an automated environment so the ability to work with Ansible, ServiceNow, and Palo Alto gives us the ability to automate our firewall policy creation. And it does so in a manner where we do not have to worry about a policy being created that may put our organization at risk."

"We have critical security policies. With AlgoSec, we can create a security policy to manage critical applications. I have worked in the bank and they have critical applications. We created some security policies for those applications. Controlling the flow is critical for our customers."

"AlgoSec contributes more in the security space for our company, especially in automatically finding the high risk and medium risk rules instead of manually reviewing over a few thousand rules."

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"It has centralized cloud firewall management rules. It provides compliance in tracking and reporting."

"Once this solution is set up, we hardly have to touch it."

"Also, the strength of the community is invaluable."

"AWS Firewall Manager isn't a separate solution when you create the virtual private cloud (VPC), so you can control the traffic through that security group."

"We work with compliance monitoring in the product, which is helpful for identifying framework-based misconfigurations, as it can tell you where to deploy firewall policies based on the frameworks."

"The most valuable feature is scaling, which allows you to deploy one configuration and scan and deploy it across the network. The automated policy application feature also streamlines security operations."

"The most valuable feature is the centrally managed rule. I also like the central orchestration."

"The product is highly reliable."

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Cons

"In our environment, we add rules in the files based on user logins, but currently, we can't do that with AlgoSec. AlgoSec can't create rules based on user logins. For example, generally, when we create a rule, we put IP Address, Destination IP Address, and Service Port. However, in our environment, we put IP Address, User Login, Destination IP Address, and Service Port, but AlgoSec doesn't support a rule in this format. We opened a ticket regarding this with their support two months ago, and they said that they will be able to add it in the future, but they don't know the timeframe."

"The initial cost was high for us, but we have always been behind the tech curve and cost has always been the limiting factor."

"have also heard a few qualms about the technical support and that it could be improved. However, this doesn't detract from the value the tool brings to our business."

"It would be nice to have a good tool for network map discovery in the GUI to make it more user-friendly."

"The documentation could be better."

"The initial setup can be complex for beginners."

"There is room for improvement in the rollback process."

"In terms of integrations, we would like to see a greater number with the upcoming and next-generation tools (i.e. SOAR and a selection of other SIEMs)."

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"Enabling and configuring the logging is not that straightforward."

"I would like to see AWS add some UTM features to the firewall. It would also be great if AWS Firewall had native IPS/IDS. They have the separate IPS/IDS, GuardDuty."

"AWS Firewall Manager should be open to manage other third-party appliances as well."

"It needs to be more employee-friendly, and the security management could be more efficient."

"For AWS WAF, we have seen cases where it allowed suspicious HTTPS headers even if they carried malicious payloads."

"This solution is suitable for a small-scale enterprise and may not scale up to a very high volume of traffic or a large number of servers."

"They could consider organizing and enhancing documentation in a more structured and chronological manner"

"The system should be more customizable."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing of AlgoSec is fair."

"The pricing is good. Though, I would like if pricing could better support small businesses."

"The cost of the tool can be recovered with AlgoSec automations."

"The price came in where we really didn't even need to have much of a discussion. That was very good. There are also options regarding what you want to pay for. It wasn't really pushed on me that I have to get all of it or else I can't be an AlgoSec customer."

"AlgoSec is not much more expensive compared to other products available in the market."

"When it comes to the cost of support and licensing, it is much cheaper than other competing products."

"We are working with our finance department right now to be able to purchase it. The AlgoSec team is doing everything that they can in their power to get the costs down to where our budget is. They have worked a lot on it. They have cut the cost in half for us so far by questioning, "This is in the quote. Is this something that is actually needed?" They have pulled some stuff out and cut our costs down by 50% for the product itself."

"It is worth spending the cost for visibility on security. Of course, security is not cheap."

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"From what I've heard from my colleagues, it appears that the pricing is competitive, which influenced our decision to choose this option."

"The licensing is on a pay-as-you-go basis and we are billed monthly."

"It is a cost-efficient product."

"The AWS Firewall Manager is a little on the costly side."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	57
Midsize Enterprise	31
Large Enterprise	175

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Large Enterprise	6

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AlgoSec?

AlgoSec's ability to integrate with various security and networking solutions enhances its overall value.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AlgoSec?

Pricing and licensing for AlgoSec depend entirely on custom quotes based on the organization's specific needs. My experience as a cybersecurity consultant prevents me from diving deep into pricing ...

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What needs improvement with AlgoSec?

One improvement I see for AlgoSec is implementing an optimized rule cleanup and recertification process to address the challenge of companies neglecting clean-up recommendations. Establishing a qua...

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What do you like most about AWS Firewall Manager?

It has centralized cloud firewall management rules. It provides compliance in tracking and reporting.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Firewall Manager?

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate the pricing for AWS Firewall Manager as seven, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.

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What needs improvement with AWS Firewall Manager?

AWS Firewall Manager should be open to manage other third-party appliances as well.

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Overview

AlgoSec enhances application delivery speed and security by automating connectivity and policy management across hybrid networks.

With 20 years of experience, AlgoSec is trusted by over 2200 organizations for securing critical workloads. Its Horizon platform leverages AI to discover and manage business applications, offering comprehensive visibility into security and compliance issues across hybrid environments. Intelligent change automation improves both agility and security, ensuring conformity to internet security standards and regulatory requirements.

What key features does AlgoSec offer?

Firewall Analyzer: Optimizes firewall rules, managing risk and compliance effectively.
FireFlow: Automates change management processes, reducing manual errors and boosting efficiency.
Traffic Simulation: Assists in troubleshooting by simulating traffic scenarios.
Vendor Compatibility: Works with multi-vendor devices, ideal for complex networks.
Compliance Reporting: Simplifies audits with templates for standards like PCI-DSS and ISO 27001.

What benefits should users consider?

Enhanced Security: Streamlines security policy management, reducing redundant rules.
Operational Efficiency: Automates processes, leading to faster and more accurate changes.
Regulatory Compliance: Provides tools for easy alignment with industry standards.
Centralized Control: Offers centralized management over firewalls and application connectivity.

In complex industries, AlgoSec aids in risk analysis, firewall policy management, and compliance auditing. Organizations optimize firewall rules and automate policy changes, achieving improved security and operational efficiency across multiple vendor environments. AlgoSec's tools are integral to streamlining change management and enhancing security posture in large network structures.

AlgoSec

AWS Firewall Manager is a security management service which allows you to centrally configure and manage firewall rules across your accounts and applications in AWS Organization. As new applications are created, Firewall Manager makes it easy to bring new applications and resources into compliance by enforcing a common set of security rules. Now you have a single service to build firewall rules, create security policies, and enforce them in a consistent, hierarchical manner across your entire infrastructure.

Using AWS Firewall Manager, you can easily roll out AWS WAF rules for your Application Load Balancers, API Gateways, and Amazon CloudFront distributions. Similarly, you can create AWS Shield Advanced protections for your Application Load Balancers, ELB Classic Load Balancers, Elastic IP Addresses and CloudFront distributions. Finally, with AWS Firewall Manager, you can enable security groups for your Amazon EC2 and ENI resource types in Amazon VPCs.

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Sample Customers

Maersk, Delta Airlines, Chevron, General Motors, T-Mobile, Chevron, AT&T, BP, Bell Canada, HCA Healthcare, Morgan Stanley, Unilever, Nationwide Insurance Enterprise, US Bank, Microsoft

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers

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