We performed a comparison between AWS Firewall Manager and Fortinet FortiGate Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewall Security Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Once this solution is set up, we hardly have to touch it."
"The most valuable feature is the centrally managed rule. I also like the central orchestration."
"It has centralized cloud firewall management rules. It provides compliance in tracking and reporting."
"AWS Firewall Manager isn't a separate solution when you create the virtual private cloud (VPC), so you can control the traffic through that security group."
"The interface is intuitive and it is easy for the users."
"Also, the strength of the community is invaluable."
"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud has good pricing compared to other firewall and security products."
"FortiGate Cloud boosts productivity because one solution covers all the requirements, features, and management functions. Staff can operate it with less security knowledge, so it decreases the workload of our security specialists. Anyone with training on the console can manage access to users and devices based on standardized structural services."
"It's quite easy to use, and it's easy to find the necessary information from the web."
"It's easy to use and the fact that I can schedule the report to come to my inbox at set times is very convenient for me."
"I have found the SD-WAN, flexibility, and security the most valuable features."
"I have found centralized administration, cloud UI, and visibility and security on all networks valuable features."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is the logs are stored longer on this cloud version. If you have the on-premise version you will not be able to store the logs for more than one or two months."
"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud has valuable firewall, SSL VPN, and web filtering features."
"It needs to be more employee-friendly, and the security management could be more efficient."
"They could consider organizing and enhancing documentation in a more structured and chronological manner"
"I would like to see AWS add some UTM features to the firewall. It would also be great if AWS Firewall had native IPS/IDS. They have the separate IPS/IDS, GuardDuty."
"The system should be more customizable."
"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."
"Enabling and configuring the logging is not that straightforward."
"The licensing is a little bit confusing and needs to be improved."
"When it comes to technical support, the problem we have found is that if an issue comes, it takes a day to get everything resolved. It could be faster. They can be better at optimizing how they answer tickets in terms of response times. There must be ways to make the process more streamlined. It would make it easier for their clients."
"The Linux version currently lacks some of the latest features, notably in the IPv6 tool stack, which is available for Windows clients."
"I would like to see a SIEM bundled together with this because customers are looking into better reporting and more proactive security solutions."
"Everything related to the graphical user interface should be improved."
"It would be much better if Fortinet FortiGate Cloud allowed third-party integrations like multi factor-authentication."
"The interface and dashboards should improve in Fortinet FortiGate Cloud. Other solutions have better graphical interfaces."
"Lacks some security against external attacks."
AWS Firewall Manager is ranked 8th in Firewall Security Management with 6 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is ranked 5th in Firewall Security Management with 55 reviews. AWS Firewall Manager is rated 7.8, while Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of AWS Firewall Manager writes "Streamlining security and enhanced file transfer control". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud writes "Useful for routing and cloud security purposes but needs to incorporate XDR capabilities ". AWS Firewall Manager is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Panorama, Azure Firewall Manager, Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, Tufin Orchestration Suite and FireMon Security Manager, whereas Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF), Fortinet FortiPortal and ExtremeCloud IQ. See our AWS Firewall Manager vs. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud report.
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