Concise summaries of official AWS update announcements for AWS Network Firewall.
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Information as of November 3, 2026.
AWS Network Firewall now includes explicit forward proxy functionality, maintaining all existing filtering capabilities and using a single security policy for both explicit proxy and transparent firewall.
AWS Network Firewall introduces container attribute-based rules for Amazon EKS and ECS, simplifying security for containerized workloads by using native container constructs instead of IP-based rules.
AWS Network Firewall adds new managed rule groups from VisionHeight, offering zero-day threat protection and blocking noisy scanners and Tor traffic
AWS Network Firewall changes the default stateful action for new firewall policies to improve connection reliability and prevent dropped packets
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