The built-for-cloud firewall that costs 60-80% less than the cloud-native one.
Same egress filtering, same FQDN/SNI-based L7 inspection, better fleet
visibility than AWS Network Firewall, Azure Firewall or Google Cloud
NGFW — on a basic VM in your cloud.
No per-hour endpoint
charges. No per-GB data-processing tax.
Deploy in minutes on any cloud.
- L7 firewall and secure NAT gateway in one — flat per-firewall, not per-AZ endpoint-hours.
- One firewall for egress, ingress and east-west — control VPC-to-VPC traffic, not just outbound.
- FQDN/SNI-based L7 — SNI and FQDN egress filtering, no TLS decryption.
- A lightweight appliance in your own cloud network — flat per-firewall price.
- 25 compliance frameworks — advise or enforce on every policy push.
Trusted by cloud teams worldwide
Cloud regions covered
Gateways provisioned
Estimated customer savings
The same firewall capability — and more — without the cost model.
Lead with the bill, prove with the capability.
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Cut the cloud-firewall bill 60–80%
Flat, per-firewall licensing — no per-hour endpoint fee and no per-GB data-processing tax. The cloud-native stack meters egress twice and forever; Enforza is one line item that does not move with traffic.
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Firewall and secure NAT in one appliance
On AWS, the cloud-native firewall meters per-AZ endpoint-hours plus a per-GB charge for filtered egress; on GCP it stacks Cloud NGFW with a separate Cloud NAT line. Enforza is a single NVA in your own network: FQDN/SNI-based L7 filtering and source NAT together, on a VM you provision.
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North-south and east-west, in one firewall
SNI and FQDN filtering, network and VM objects, AWS IP-range and Azure Service-Tag imports — applied to egress, ingress and east-west VPC-to-VPC traffic. The same control as the cloud-native firewall on AWS, Azure or GCP, with no TLS decryption and no key custody, ever.
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Compliance baked in
25 framework packs and 210 firewall-applicable controls — PCI DSS, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, DORA, CMMC, HIPAA and more. Advise or enforce on every policy push, so non-compliant rules are caught before they ship.
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One pane of glass for the fleet
Manage every firewall from a single console, push policy to many at once, and stream live logs from multiple firewalls in real time. Log export goes to your own SIEM — never through Enforza's cloud.
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Your team's workflow — GitOps or console
Run policy-as-code through a GitHub pipeline, or drive the Cloud Controller console by hand. Same firewall NVA underneath; the choice is your team's. Drop-in deploy in minutes, self-upgrade with rollback, on any cloud.
Two ways to run it. One firewall underneath.
Pick the workflow your team already lives in. The same firewall NVA runs the policy either way — there is no second-class mode.
A single console for the whole fleet — author policy, push to many firewalls at once, and watch live logs stream from multiple firewalls in real time, with the same advise-or-enforce guardrails.
Policy-as-code in your repo, reviewed and merged like any other change. Compliance runs in the pipeline, so non-compliant rules are caught on the pull request — before they ever reach a firewall.
Preview coming
Available now as a workflow · a self-serve portal walk-through is on the way.
Up and filtering in three steps
Launch a VM (or several, depending on your availability requirements), bind a policy, point traffic at it. No appliances to rack, no agents on every host — and because the last step is just a route change, rollback is instant.
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Launch
Spin up a Linux VM (or VMs) and enrol it with a single command.
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Bind a policy
Attach a policy from your GitHub pipeline or the console.
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Point traffic at it
One route change sends traffic through — rollback is instant.
curl -fsSL https://dl.enforza.io/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- --regkey=<your deployment key>
A single-use key binds one firewall; a fleet key is reusable across Terraform, Ansible or CI.
Replace the cloud-native firewall. Drop the per-GB tax.
Every cloud-native firewall — AWS Network Firewall, Azure Firewall, Google Cloud NGFW — meters you per GB of data processed, a tax that grows with every byte, on top of a per-hour endpoint fee that is duplicated for every Availability Zone. Take AWS as the worked example: a 2-AZ deployment runs two firewall endpoints — roughly $577/month before a single byte — then $0.065/GB on top. Enforza is a drop-in replacement: one appliance, flat per-firewall, $0/GB.
- Per hour
- $0.395 / endpoint-hr (~$288/mo)
- Per GB
- $0.065 / GB
- Per hour
- $0.395 / endpoint-hr (~$288/mo)
- Per GB
- $0.065 / GB
- Per hour
- $0
- Per GB
- $0 / GB
Flat, per-firewall licence — plus the Linux VM(s) you provision, depending on your availability requirements.
- Not CPU or instance-size limited
- Not IP or object limited
- Not protected-device limited
- Not complicated metered pricing
Enterprise control, without the enterprise sprawl — or the invoice.
This is the other axis — and a different story to the cloud-native cost wedge above. The mega-NGFW vendors — Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point — ship hundreds of features behind a hefty enterprise licence, most never switched on. Enforza covers the vast majority of core use cases most teams actually need, and does it well: the right tool for the job, not a platform you grow into and never fill. We are honest about scope — we do not match their breadth, and most teams never need it.
- Cloud-native firewall — managed, but limited and metered by the per-GB tax.
- Enterprise NGFW — deep control, but costly and over-built for cloud.
- Enforza — the overlap: real control at a flat, fair price.
“Half used, fully paid for.”
Compliance, checked on every policy push.
25 framework packs and 210 firewall-applicable controls. On every policy push, Enforza can advise or enforce — so a rule that would break a control is flagged or blocked before it reaches a firewall.
- PCI DSS
- ISO 27001
- FedRAMP
- DORA
- CMMC
- HIPAA
- + 19 more
Single-pass. Microsecond. Built for the cloud.
The single-pass packet classification and verdict engine inspects each flow once, reaches a verdict (to allow or block) in microseconds — not milliseconds — then enforces every following packet in-kernel at line rate. It is a purpose-built cloud NVA: engineered for the cloud, not an on-prem box bolted onto it.
- ~49.5 µs
p99 first-packet classification
- 98.5 %
of packets decided in-kernel at line rate — only the first hits userspace
- 0
dropped packets across the throughput run — queue depth peaked at zero
Measured on standard VM sizes (t3.micro / c6i.xlarge) — conservative floors, not ceilings. A single-stream 4.35 Gbps sustained on a t3.micro at 97.4% idle, with zero dropped packets.
Frequently asked questions
How does Enforza cost 60–80% less than a cloud-native firewall?
Enforza is a flat, per-firewall subscription with no per-hour endpoint fee and no per-GB data-processing tax. Cloud-native firewalls charge both — a per-hour endpoint or deployment fee, plus a per-GB charge on every byte; on AWS that endpoint fee is billed per Availability Zone, so it multiplies with each AZ. Because Enforza's price does not move with traffic, the gap widens as your egress grows. The 60–80% figure is directional and dated 2026-06-14; use the savings calculator for your own numbers.
Why is filtered egress on a cloud-native firewall so expensive?
The cloud-native firewall meters you two ways at once, and the per-hour endpoint fee is duplicated for every Availability Zone. As a worked example on AWS Network Firewall: $0.395 per endpoint-hour per AZ — about $288/month each, so a 2-AZ HA deployment is roughly $577/month before a single byte flows — plus $0.065/GB on top, also per AZ (us-east-1, 2026-06-14). Every cloud-native firewall — Azure Firewall and Google Cloud NGFW included — charges a per-GB data-processing fee on top of its per-hour rate, and on GCP filtered egress also stacks a separate Cloud NAT line. Enforza does secure NAT and FQDN/SNI-based L7 filtering in one appliance at a flat per-firewall price and $0/GB.
Does Enforza only filter outbound (egress) traffic?
No. Enforza is one firewall for north-south and east-west traffic. It controls egress to the internet, ingress into your network, and east-west VPC-to-VPC (lateral) traffic between your own networks. You route the traffic you want inspected through the appliance and apply the same FQDN/SNI-based L7 and L3/L4 policy to all of it — so lateral movement between workloads is governed, not just the outbound path.
Does Enforza decrypt TLS to filter by hostname?
No. Enforza filters egress by SNI and FQDN without decrypting TLS and without holding your keys. You get FQDN/SNI-based L7 control over where workloads can talk, with no man-in-the-middle and no key custody.
Where does Enforza run, and where do logs go?
Enforza runs as a single lightweight Linux VM in your own cloud network — AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or on-prem. Log export streams to your own SIEM; logs never pass through Enforza's cloud.
What are the two ways to run it?
Policy-as-code through a GitHub pipeline (GitOps, for platform-engineering teams) or the Cloud Controller console (GUI-driven, for network-operations teams). The same firewall NVA runs underneath either workflow — the choice is your team's.
Is the free tier real, or a teaser?
Free is a genuine self-serve tier: one firewall with L3/L4 policy and network objects, no card required. A 14-day trial unlocks the full feature set — L7/FQDN filtering, compliance packs, log export and live logs — and the paid plan has the full feature set with no limitations, plus the Linux VM(s) Enforza runs on.
How is compliance handled?
Enforza ships 25 framework packs covering 210 firewall-applicable controls — including PCI DSS, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, DORA, CMMC and HIPAA. On every policy push it can advise or enforce, so rules that would break a control are flagged or blocked before they reach a firewall.
Ditch the data-processing charges.
Flat, per-firewall pricing — and no per-GB data-processing charges, ever. The same egress filtering, FQDN/SNI-based L7 and NAT, in any cloud or on-prem. Start free, no card.