AWS Firewall Manager vs Skybox Security Suite comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Tufin are both solutions in the Firewall Security Management category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.2, while Tufin is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.0. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 3.1% mindshare in Firewall Security Management, compared to Tufin’s 8.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 81% of Tufin users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 15, 2026

Skybox Security Suite and AWS Firewall Manager compete in the comprehensive security management category. Skybox appears to have the upper hand in vulnerability management and network assurance, particularly for large enterprises, whereas AWS is preferable for organizations within the AWS ecosystem due to its simplicity and real-time compliance monitoring.

Features: Skybox provides powerful vulnerability management, extensive network assurance, and an offline attack simulation feature. It also offers robust vendor support, making it a solid choice for large-scale environments. AWS Firewall Manager offers real-time compliance monitoring, centralized policy management, and seamless integration with AWS services, which streamlines cloud security operations for AWS-centric businesses.

Room for Improvement: Skybox requires improvements in its user interface, integration capabilities, and should offer better price flexibility. Enhancing its complex setup and expanding firewall support could also be beneficial. AWS Firewall Manager's complexity due to its numerous features and high licensing costs poses challenges, where improvements in threat intelligence integrations and documentation could enhance user experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Skybox supports on-premises, hybrid, and cloud deployments but comes with higher skill requirements and setup complexity. Customer service is satisfactory but occasionally slow. AWS Firewall Manager, geared towards the cloud, is easily managed within AWS environments, with centralized policy management and generally responsive support teams available via phone.

Pricing and ROI: Skybox tends to be expensive, especially for licensing complex network components, though it offers good value for large organizations. AWS Firewall Manager's pay-as-you-go model brings flexibility and efficiency for AWS-heavy users, yet high operational costs may still be restrictive. Both solutions yield strong ROI within their respective fields, with Skybox automating firewall tasks and AWS simplifying cloud security management.

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Firewall Manager

Ranking in Firewall Security Management

7th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Skybox Security Suite

Ranking in Firewall Security Management

6th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Vulnerability Management (41st)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Firewall Security Management category, the mindshare of AWS Firewall Manager is 3.1%, down from 4.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Skybox Security Suite is 8.8%, down from 10.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Firewall Security Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Skybox Security Suite	8.8%
AWS Firewall Manager	3.1%
Other	88.1%

Firewall Security Management

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Venda E

Cloud Option Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Centralized security policies have streamlined audits and ensure consistent protection by default

One area for improvement is the reporting and customization option. The compliance reports are helpful, but having more granular insights or export options would make it even easier to use during audits. Also, support for more third-party integration could improve flexibility. Another improvement I need to see is a smoother setup experience. Some of the initial configuration steps, especially around the organization and permissions, can feel complex. A more guided setup or clear UI explanation would make it easier for teams to adopt quickly. One more improvement would be better alerting options. Right now, we mostly rely on AWS Security Hub or CloudWatch for detailed alerts. Having more built-in, real-time notification directly from AWS Firewall Manager would make it easier to monitor policy violations without extra setup.

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reviewer2697804

Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Tool identifies vulnerabilities and monitors connectivity effectively

Skybox Security Suite was a very good tool for my organization. I used it for monitoring connectivity between internal and external sites, monitoring our AWS instances, and ensuring workstations and Layer 3 devices met security specifications. The tool successfully helped in preventing vulnerabilities and breaches, but unfortunately, operations ceased before completing a migration to SaaS.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

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

"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."

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

"Overall, it improved our security posture and made audits much easier."

"The product is highly reliable."

"The interface is intuitive and it is easy for the users."

"It is helpful for our compliance, as the compliance manager manages compliance with leading industry standards such as FedRAMP, which my company complies with, GDPR laws, and ISO 27001."

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

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"Skybox deployment is simple, and it's very useful."

"The performance could be good because we chose it at the time, but it is too complex for us to appreciate its performance because we lack the necessary skills."

"The ability to appropriately prioritize vulnerabilities inside the environment, and then to have visibility into the traffic and rule sets of an organization, are two of the top capabilities that I recommend. Skybox is the only one that does both of those in a single platform."

"The solution's simplicity of use is its most valuable feature."

"Change Manager is most important because of the impact on each other of a network change or a firewall change. We want to understand this and to know, beforehand, what the impact of a change will be. We are a large network so that is a very important tool."

"The solution offers very nice dashboards and they've recently added a very good Java-based web interface."

"We are currently working on rule review and compliance. The logging features are good."

"Correlates logs and threats and prioritizes; provides network maps;p provides change result context and resulting vulnerability."

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Cons

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

"The areas of improvement are definitely platform resiliency, as we have seen outages on the AWS backbone, and whenever there is an outage on the AWS backbone, it impacts all the services hosted on that region, so we expect regional resiliency."

"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."

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

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

"The system should be more customizable."

"One area for improvement is the reporting and customization option."

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

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"The solution was quite technical. It would be easier to manage if the solution was more specific about aspects of the solution and provided more advisory around how to use it effectively. It would help users a lot if they were more clear about everything."

"Skybox Security Suite can improve the change management module. It is the one part of the tool that is used with the firewall devices and you have a change management module that is used to record changes of all firewalls in the company. It's not compatible with all brands, this is where they can improve the solution."

"The primary room for improvement would be to enable a web interface, which is not something which is there in the product. This is supposed to have come a year, a year and a half ago, but still has failed to come out. It still needs a client application to be installed on a workstation to be able to access that server and then run these reports. So I cannot extend that access to anybody. It has to be one administrator all the time. So unlike a web interface, where you can give multiple users simultaneous access and generate the various reports, that isn't a possibility at the moment."

"The solution needs to add more automation and orchestration capabilities. Those features would make the solution much stronger."

"Change Manager can be improved. If they can improve Change Manager so that whatever we want to do on a firewall, we are able to do it through Change Manager, it will be helpful for us. Whenever we are doing a change, it only does them at an L3 and L4 level, but all the firewalls are at the application layer. So, whatever needs to be done on the firewall, we aren't able to get it done through Change Manager. Currently, this functionality is not there because of which we are sometimes losing customers. I can create a role on Layer 3, Layer 4, but when it comes to the application layer, such as configuring and defining URLs or other things at the application level, it can't be done through Change Manager. Customers demand that they should be able to do everything through Change Manager. They don't want to do it through some other mechanism to accomplish their complete change management policy. They don't want to use a firewall manager because sometimes, they don't have any manager. They ask if they can use our solution so that a manager is not required. If Change Manager can do all the management automatically without involving any other manager, it will be great. They can also provide better integration with other managers so that everything can be done through a central point."

"The tool does not offer options for customization."

"I've had issues with licensing where, when they were expiring and I asked for the updated licenses, I would the wrong ones. I think their process needs to be straightened out a little bit - I don't know if they fixed it already, it has been awhile. It wasn't as straightforward as it could have been."

"The features that I appreciated the most in Skybox Security Suite were not comparable with Tufin, as Tufin was far ahead in terms of the technology and the user interface."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is a cost-efficient product."

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

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

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

"When compared with other companies, the license is more costly."

"Fully understand the total cost of ownership. They have gone to a new model where you have to replace the hardware every X amount of years at a very substantial cost and fully understand your intended number of nodes. To operate a firewall, you have to pay two licenses, a firewall node and a network node. If you are a reasonable-sized organization, this gets expensive very quickly."

"The software is expensive. I rate its pricing an eight out of ten."

"Licensing is normally on a yearly basis. There may also be a perpetual license. Normally, the customers ask for a lower price. If you want to sell more, you have to think about it."

"I think for the cost, what we got definitely is worth it. The only caution I would give is that whenever you license for Firewall Assurance at the same time, for some weird reason, you have to get one Network Assurance license, just to manage one firewall. That's a little bit of overkill. But otherwise, in general, the pricing is fairly okay."

"The licensing fee is paid yearly and is approximately $100,000."

"Skybox Security Suite has indeed helped us reduce costs. The prices of AlgoSec and Skybox Security Suite are approximately 50 percent different. The tool may require special vendor support from abroad, resulting in slightly higher costs. Its pricing is in the middle."

"Pricing is on the higher side. In terms of licensing, you should buy the complete suite rather than buying only the Change Manager. I think Change Manager with Vulnerability Control is something that would be interesting to look at."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Hospitality Company

University

Comms Service Provider

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Large Enterprise	8

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	21
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	21

Questions from the Community

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

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for AWS Firewall Manager has been straightforward. There is no separate licensing cost for AWS Firewall Manager itself. It is included with AWS...

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What is your primary use case for AWS Firewall Manager?

My main use case for AWS Firewall Manager is centrally managing and enforcing security policies across multiple AWS accounts. It helps me to ensure consistent WAF rules, security group policies, an...

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What do you like most about Skybox Security Suite?

Overall, the tool has helped us reduce risks. If any step is missing, it's easier for my team or engineers to identify it. The tool provides accurate recommendations based on the data. Its integrat...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Skybox Security Suite?

From a commercial perspective, AlgoSec is more expensive compared to Skybox Security Suite. Skybox Security Suite is cost-effective.

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What needs improvement with Skybox Security Suite?

The features that I appreciated the most in Skybox Security Suite were not comparable with Tufin, as Tufin was far ahead in terms of the technology and the user interface. The effectiveness of the ...

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Overview

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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Skybox Security Suite provides network path analysis, firewall assurance, change management, and vulnerability control. It supports diverse security operations with automation and threat insights through a comprehensive dashboard, offering scalability in large networks and integration with various vendors.

Skybox Security Suite excels in network visualization, firewall rule management, compliance checks, and vulnerability management. It enables cybersecurity teams to audit firewall configurations, ensure compliance with standards like NIST, and identify security gaps. It simplifies security operations for complex network environments with effective integration and optimization features. Despite its high pricing, the suite's automation capabilities, data extraction ease, and extensive threat insights are critical for network infrastructure optimization. Areas for improvement include a web interface, enhanced reporting and automation, broader vendor support, and improved customer support and integration with tools and devices.

What are the key features of Skybox Security Suite?

Network Path Analysis: Provides insights into potential vulnerabilities and security gaps.
Firewall Assurance: Ensures firewall configurations meet compliance standards.
Change Management: Streamlines change requests and improves infrastructure optimization.
Vulnerability Control: Monitors and manages vulnerabilities effectively.
Scalability: Efficiently supports large networks, enhancing security operations.

What benefits should users expect from Skybox Security Suite?

Automation: Reduces manual tasks and enhances efficiency across security operations.
Threat Insights: Offers comprehensive dashboard for better threat management and decision-making.
Integration: Seamlessly works with multiple vendors, simplifying complex network environments.
Risk Reduction: Provides actionable recommendations to minimize security vulnerabilities.

Skybox Security Suite is utilized across industries for its robust network visualization, compliance, and vulnerability management capabilities. Financial services focus on auditing and firewall management to meet stringent regulatory standards. Healthcare relies on it for vulnerability monitoring and patient data protection. Energy sectors benefit from its change management and threat insight features to secure large and diverse infrastructures.

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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers

ADP, Blue Cross Blue Shield, BT, USAID, Delta Dental, EDF Energy, EMC, HSBC, Johnson & Johnson

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