Now AWS Firewall Manager is accessible in more 5 AWS Regions

AWS Firewall Manager is a security management service that lets you to centrally configure and handle firewall rules over your accounts and applications in AWS Organization. As new applications are designed, Firewall Manager makes it simple to present new applications and resources into compliance by applying a basic set of security rules. Now you have one service to create firewall rules, build security policies, and apply them in a steady, hierarchical manner over your complete infrastructure. You can directly roll out AWS WAF rules for your Application Load Balancers, API Gateways, and Amazon CloudFront distributions with the help of AWS Firewall Manager. Likewise, you can design AWS Shield Advanced protections for your Application Load Balancers, ELB Classic Load Balancers, Elastic IP Addresses and CloudFront distributions. Lastly, you can activate security groups for your Amazon EC2 and ENI resource types in Amazon VPCs using AWS Firewall Manager. Besides, AWS Firewall Manager certifies that all security rules are frequently applied, while new accounts or applications are created. Now this AWS Firewall Manager is accessible in Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), South America (Sao Paulo), EU (Paris) and EU (Stockholm). With these new AWS Region expansion, AWS Firewall Manager is now available in total 16 AWS Regions and all Amazon CloudFront edge locations. To get the complete list of AWS regions and services, refer AWS Region Table. And to know detail on AWS Firewall Manager, go through product page or documentation.

Introducing AWS Firewall Manager Assistance For AWS Shield Advanced

AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service which protects applications executing on AWS. There are two tiers of AWS Shield - Standard and Advanced. AWS Shield Standard offers always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations which reduces application downtime and latency, so there is no necessity to occupy AWS Support to advantage from DDoS protection. Shield Advanced gives further detection and mitigation against huge and sophisticated DDoS attacks, near real-time visibility into attacks, and integration with AWS WAF, a web application firewall. Now you can utilize AWS Firewall Manager to simply configure and control AWS Shield Advanced DDoS protection for every resources in your organization over several accounts. With this potential, clients can design Shield Advanced protection policies to automatically find current and new resources and always implement DDoS protection to every resources, or use Tags to describe a subset of resources. Besides, AWS Firewall Manager offers central visibility into threats detected by Shield Advanced over every applications in your organization. AWS Firewall Manager is accessible to every Shield Advanced clients without any extra cost. You only charge for AWS Shield Advanced and AWS Config resources generated by AWS Firewall Manager. To know more about AWS Firewall Manager, refer Firewall Manager documentation.