Sold by: Check Point Software Technologies
Deployed on AWS
As your organization expands its web applications, generative AI tools, and APIs, the attack surface grows, increasing exposure to sophisticated cyber threats. Check Point WAF for AWS is a prevention-first, AI-powered web application firewall (WAF) solution designed to deliver robust web application, generative and agentic AI, and API security without compromising efficiency or ease of management.
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Overview
The growth of web applications, generative AI, and APIs introduces new vulnerabilities that traditional security solutions struggle to address. Check Point WAF provides web application, generative and agentic AI, and API Protection. The product leverages deep application contextual analysis and an AI-driven machine learning firewall to profile users, monitor application behavior, and detect both known and unknown threats. With over 90% of customers operating in prevention mode and 100% requiring fewer than 10 exception rules, Check Point WAF delivers precise API security while minimizing false positives and simplifying operations.
Advanced Threat Prevention Without Manual Overhead
Check Point WAF provides protection against OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, DDoS attacks, API-based threats, and zero-day vulnerabilities - all without requiring ongoing signature updates. Its advanced machine learning firewall capabilities and contextual analysis ensure accurate detection and seamless protection, allowing your security team to focus on strategic priorities rather than managing exceptions.
Optimized for Dynamic Cloud Environments
Built specifically for cloud-native deployments, Check Point WAF integrates natively with AWS services to automate scaling and management. As your applications and APIs evolve, Check Point WAF delivers consistent and reliable web application security without increasing operational overhead. It also supports CI/CD pipeline integration and infrastructure-as-code, enabling API security directly into your development workflows.
Flexible Licensing and Seamless AWS Integration
Check Point WAF is offered as a BYOL (Bring Your Own License) solution, with pricing and entitlements managed directly through Check Point. The underlying AWS infrastructure is billed separately based on standard AWS pricing. This flexibility ensures that CloudGuard aligns with your organizations unique operational and financial needs while maintaining strong integration with AWS services.
Getting Started
To deploy Check Point WAF, click on the "View Usage Instructions" and "Usage Information" below for next steps. For licensing and private offers, contact your Check Point trusted advisor or sales team. AWS infrastructure billing is handled directly through AWS and follows standard pricing models.
Highlights
- AI-Driven Application Security: Protects against both known and unknown cyberattacks including OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, DDoS attacks, API threats, AI-driven attacks, and zero-day exploits using AI-powered machine learning. Delivers high efficacy, reduces false positives, and minimizes operational complexity.
- Rapid Deployment and Scalability: Move from setup to active protection within days and gain flexibility for growth for web application, APIs, AI applications and worloads with AWS-native scaling and pay-as-you-go pricing.
- Seamless AWS Integration: Designed for dynamic cloud environments, automates scaling, simplifies management, and integrates natively with AWS services to deliver consistent, reliable web, AI and API security at scale.
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A number of AppSec instances in an Auto Scaling Group. Load balanced by an ELB.
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Navigate to https://portal.checkpoint.com ; if you do not have an existing account, open a new account. Open the main menu (icon is in the top left corner), choose APPLICATION SECURITY under the CloudGuard column, then select Cloud on the left. The Getting Started page will open. After defining the asset, you will be redirected to the Profile page. Note: Obtain the Token for CloudGuard WAF from the Profile page.
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Customer reviews
Ashith S.
Strong Web Traffic Visibility, But a Steep Learning Curve
Reviewed on Jul 17, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about Check Point WAF is its clear visibility into web traffic and blocked requests. It makes it easy to identify suspicious activity and fine-tune security policies. Once configured, it provides reliable protection with minimal day-to-day effort.
What do you dislike about the product?
The biggest drawback is the learning curve, especially for first-time users. The interface can feel crowded, and fine-tuning policiesThe initial setup and policy tuning can be time-consuming, especially if you're new to WAFs. The interface isn't always intuitive, and some configuration options require extra effort to understand. takes time to avoid false positives. Some configuration tasks could also be more intuitive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Check Point WAF helps protect our web applications from common attacks while reducing the need for constant manual monitoring. It gives us better visibility into suspicious traffic, allowing us to respond faster and manage security more efficiently.
Samiksha C.
Complex Setup, but Strong Security Features
Reviewed on Jul 15, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I feel Check Point WAF is very basic but it does its job well in protecting the organization. It definitely helps when an employee is clicking on a suspicious link, like, preventing phishing attacks. I appreciate that it logs everything so that the SOC team stays aware. The feature I love the most is the firewall policy management and log monitoring via the smart console. I regularly work on analyzing the logs to investigate issues and validate security alerts. I also use the threat prevention features like IPS and antivirus to understand patterns and tune rules.
What do you dislike about the product?
I feel the setup is very complex and quite lengthy. It also has a high cost, and the performance impact is a bit lagging. It increases latency, reduces throughput, and needs proper sizing and tuning. I request the Check Point team to hopefully make the process easier.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Check Point WAF to protect my organization, detecting endpoint activities and preventing security breaches. It logs everything, keeping our SOC team aware of potential phishing threats and ensuring we don't visit suspicious links.
UTSAV A.
Intuitive and Secure Firewall Solution
Reviewed on Jul 15, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I find Check Point WAF very easy to use. Even if someone is new to firewall stuff, they can handle it effectively with some guidance on using its GUI. The setup is also quite straightforward; you can set it up in five to ten minutes using the GUI interface, which is quite comfortable for first-timers.
What do you dislike about the product?
As of now, I've used many firewalls, and while Check Point WAF's interface is good, I feel it could be improved a little bit. Compared to Fortinet, their GUI interface is slightly better than Check Point's. That's pretty much the only thing I would say needs improvement, although Check Point does have very good features compared to Palo Alto and ForteGate.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Check Point WAF to secure our environment from vulnerabilities, performing URL and application-level filtering effectively.
Milan D.
Solid WAF Protection With a Learning Curve
Reviewed on Jul 14, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best is the contextual AI engine that detects threats without relying on constant signature updates. It dramatically cut down our false positives compared to our previous signature-based WAF, which means less time spent tuning rules and chasing noise. Deployment across our cloud environments was straightforward, and the automatic learning of application behavior means new apps get protected without a ton of manual configuration. The unified management through the Infinity portal is also a big plus for us since we can see everything in one place.
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial setup and configuration felt more complex than expected, and the learning curve for tuning rules to reduce false positives was steep. Documentation could be more thorough in places, and support response times occasionally lagged when we ran into urgent issues. Pricing also feels on the higher side compared to some alternatives, especially as you scale traffic. Better dashboards and more intuitive policy management would go a long way
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Check Point WAF to protect our web applications and APIs from common threats like SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and bot traffic. Before adopting it, we struggled with manually managing security rules and staying ahead of emerging attacks. It's given us more consistent protection across our cloud environments and reduced the time our team spends triaging alerts. The automated threat detection lets us focus on other priorities while staying confident our applications are covered.
Nekkala Nagendra
Ai-driven cloud security has strengthened threat prevention and improved security posture
Reviewed on Jul 13, 2026
Review provided by PeerSpot
What is our primary use case?
The main purpose is to have network security through machine learning, which can offer threat detection and intelligence for my endpoints, and I am looking for application security.
I am looking for an AI-based solution that can strengthen my cloud-native security, automate security, and better prevent threats.
I am looking for an AI-based solution and unified cloud-native security from the SaaS platform to improve my security posture.
What is most valuable?
Check Point WAF (formerly CloudGuard WAF) is a SaaS platform that gives unified cloud-native security across my applications, workloads, and network, allowing me to automate security, prevent threats, ensure compliance, and manage my security posture well across all my cloud environments.
It conducts security scoring and risk scoring, which helps prioritize my security needs, and the advanced threat detection is also very fine, providing actionable information for my current security threats by collecting and analyzing data through threat actors and IOCs, offering tactical, technical, and operational features.
What needs improvement?
The false positive rate is a concern, but I could recommend improvements where false positives have to be minimized better.
This all depends on how the rules are customized and configured, and it can also improve with planning during the initial configuration, including threat intelligence and APIs, so it could enhance how it defends against attacks and prompts injections.
It can find the threat actors behind it, and I find that strategically and technically it is effective, although the AI-related features could improve, especially as global AI capabilities evolve, which are advancing more than what Check Point WAF (formerly CloudGuard WAF) provides compared to competitors.
There are no glitches; I believe improvement could be made primarily in API Gateway and API security, especially by enabling enhanced AI-related features for better fine-tuning.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have experience of two years with the product.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is definitely a highly scalable solution without any doubt.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support is very good.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
How was the initial setup?
The deployment and initial setup are really straightforward; they provide enough documentation, videos, and deployment documents that are really helpful to complete it faster.
What was our ROI?
The return on investment is very good as it has increased my security posture and the operational efficiency of my engineers.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It is a little bit expensive, but the pricing model is acceptable, though a reduction would make it more competitive with leaders such as Palo Alto.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I purchased from a different source.
What other advice do I have?
The configurations are pretty easy, and it is plug-and-play, which gives me regular updates.
I would assess the solution as positive in this regard.
All the integrations are pretty easy through API connectivity, which I can recommend more, and it also helps with modern AI-based vulnerabilities to conduct token tests and improve detection.
I would rate this review a 9 out of 10.