The focused Aviatrix alternative — same idea, a fraction of the floor.

On one job, yes: both replace the cloud NAT gateway with an appliance in your own account that adds secure egress control, and both are flat-rate with no per-GB data-processing tax. Aviatrix ran that narrative seriously before we did, and it is a genuinely good idea. Where they diverge is scope. Aviatrix is a multicloud networking and security platform — a transit backbone, a distributed firewall across hundreds of networks, and a Kubernetes firewall — where secure egress is one capability. Enforza is a focused, flat-priced tool for the NAT + FQDN-egress job on one or a handful of networks. Different products for different-sized estates.

Aviatrix has two routes, and both are enterprise-shaped. The packaged PaaS starts at a 5-Pack for $27,700/year — one fabric, five nodes and five Advanced Security Modules, with implementation and 24×7 support included (a 10-Pack is $46,800 and a 15-Pack $66,400, on 12-month contracts). The self-managed route meters per gateway-hour — Security Services at $0.23/gateway-hour and a NAT dimension at $0.14/gateway-hour — and additionally runs a Controller and a CoPilot VM in your account. It is a real, well-supported floor built for a larger buyer. Enforza's floor is a free tier, then one small VM plus a flat per-firewall subscription. Figures are Aviatrix's own AWS Marketplace list prices, taken 2026-07-10, directional and subject to change.

For the focused NAT + FQDN-egress job, and especially below the enterprise threshold, yes — the entry economics are very different. Enforza is one small VM plus a flat per-firewall licence, with a genuine free tier; Aviatrix's cheapest packaged entry is $27,700/year, or a self-managed route with a Controller and CoPilot running in your account before the first packet is filtered. Both products are flat-rate with no per-GB tax, so this is not a per-GB argument — it is about the entry floor and the platform footprint. If your estate is large enough to use the whole Aviatrix platform, that footprint earns its keep; if the job is secure egress on a few networks, Enforza is priced for it.

They measure different things, so we present both as each vendor frames them. Aviatrix markets an average 25% saving against native cloud NAT gateways. Enforza's 60–80% is measured against the cloud-native firewalls (AWS Network Firewall, Azure Firewall, Google Cloud NGFW) with their per-GB data-processing charges, at modest-and-up egress volumes. They are different baselines — Aviatrix versus the NAT gateway, Enforza versus the cloud firewall — so the headline numbers are not directly comparable. Run your own figures on the savings calculator rather than trusting any single headline.

No. Enforza is a single appliance with nothing else to stand up — no controller, no copilot, no platform tier in your account. The self-managed Aviatrix route runs a Controller (a c5n.xlarge, roughly $158/month) and a CoPilot (an m5n.2xlarge, roughly $347/month) in your account, because those are what drive its distributed fabric. That platform is exactly what makes Aviatrix powerful across a large estate; it is also overhead you carry whether or not the estate is large. Enforza does the NAT and FQDN-egress job without one.

In several places, and we will not pretend otherwise. Aviatrix gives you true multicloud breadth — one distributed policy fabric and an encrypted transit backbone across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, edge and on-prem — plus a distributed firewall enforced natively at every gateway across hundreds of networks, a Kubernetes firewall, deep URL-path L7 filtering via TLS decryption, server-certificate verification against the SNI, and built-in threat detection and geo-blocking. It also comes with enterprise procurement: 12-month contracts with implementation services and 24×7 support bundled. If your estate is large and multi-cloud, or you need those deep-inspection capabilities, Aviatrix is the right call.

No, and that is a deliberate design choice rather than a gap we are working to close. Aviatrix's URL-based WebGroups do full URL-path filtering by decrypting TLS — a man-in-the-middle that requires holding keys. Enforza never decrypts TLS and never holds your keys, so it filters by SNI and FQDN (the hostname) but not the URL path. If URL-path-level control is a hard requirement, Aviatrix has it and Enforza does not. If you would rather not decrypt egress traffic at all, that is exactly why Enforza works the way it does.

Enforza runs on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or on-prem, managed from one console, so a mixed estate is one fleet rather than several firewall products. What Enforza does not provide is Aviatrix's distributed networking fabric — the encrypted transit backbone, BGP and transit-gateway orchestration, and single policy enforced across hundreds of networks. Enforza places focused appliances where you need egress control; Aviatrix builds and secures the multicloud network itself. If you need the fabric, that is Aviatrix's home ground.

Yes. Enforza has a genuine free tier — one firewall with L3/L4 policy and network objects, no card required. A 14-day trial unlocks the full feature set, including FQDN/SNI egress filtering, compliance packs, log export and live logs. The paid plan is £179/month per firewall, dropping to £149 from your sixth, plus the Linux VM you provision, and it is available BYOL self-serve on AWS Marketplace. Aviatrix offers a trial too, but its packaged entry is a 12-month enterprise contract — a heavier commitment to begin.