Cloud Option Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Real User
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Dec 8, 2025
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 services like WAF and Shield Advanced. Setup is mostly configuration-based, so the main cost of its resources is the policies it protects, not the service itself. Overall, it is predictable and easy to manage.
AWS licenses in general are expensive, as the overall suite of services that we buy from AWS goes in the range of tens of million dollars. The services we get are value for money; AWS has a pay-as-you-go model, which is what we generally consume.
Microsoft Firewall costs depend on region-based pricing. I don't recall the exact costs because we usually don't get the costing for the firewall alone but rather for the entire product we use, so I haven't made a direct comparison.
Regarding the pricing aspect, I'm not involved in that area. From what I've heard from my colleagues, it appears that the pricing is competitive, which influenced our decision to choose this option.
Technical Architect at a venture capital & private equity firm with 11-50 employees
Real User
Jun 4, 2020
The licensing is on a pay-as-you-go basis and we are billed monthly. I think that the pricing is okay, given that we are saving on bandwidth and also protecting our servers against threats. Support contracts are in addition to the standard licensing fees.
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...
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 services like WAF and Shield Advanced. Setup is mostly configuration-based, so the main cost of its resources is the policies it protects, not the service itself. Overall, it is predictable and easy to manage.
AWS licenses in general are expensive, as the overall suite of services that we buy from AWS goes in the range of tens of million dollars. The services we get are value for money; AWS has a pay-as-you-go model, which is what we generally consume.
Microsoft Firewall costs depend on region-based pricing. I don't recall the exact costs because we usually don't get the costing for the firewall alone but rather for the entire product we use, so I haven't made a direct comparison.
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.
They provide cost governance plans. We can choose a plan to suit our business requirements. It is a cost-efficient product.
Regarding the pricing aspect, I'm not involved in that area. From what I've heard from my colleagues, it appears that the pricing is competitive, which influenced our decision to choose this option.
A firewall is built into the VPC, so we don't pay extra, but AWS is costly in general. It's expensive to use the instances and other services.
The licensing is on a pay-as-you-go basis and we are billed monthly. I think that the pricing is okay, given that we are saving on bandwidth and also protecting our servers against threats. Support contracts are in addition to the standard licensing fees.
The AWS Firewall Manager is a little on the costly side.