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Cloud Firewall:Feature comparison and edition selection

Last Updated:Sep 18, 2026

This topic compares the features of Cloud Firewall editions and helps you choose the right one.

Important

Effective October 15, 2025, Cloud Firewall billable items have been upgraded to Billing 2.0. New purchases use Billing 2.0 by default. Existing users can continue with Billing 1.0 and can optionally upgrade to Billing 2.0.

This document describes Billing 2.0. If you are on Billing 1.0, see Billing 1.0 and upgrade instructions for information about Billing 1.0 billable items and how to upgrade to Billing 2.0.

Quick selection

Use cases

Recommended edition

  • Feature evaluation, testing, or personal learning

  • Workloads with large traffic peak fluctuations

  • Users who prefer to configure and enable features on demand

pay-as-you-go

  • Public network (north-south) traffic protection for small and medium-sized enterprises

  • Smaller bandwidth requirements (<30Mbps)

Premium Edition (subscription)

  • Public network and VPC private network (north-south and east-west) traffic protection for large enterprises

  • Protection for architectures that use Cloud Enterprise Network, Express Connect, or on-premises IDCs connected to cloud VPCs

  • Large bandwidth requirements and complex traffic isolation and control needs

Enterprise Edition or Ultimate Edition (subscription)

Feature comparison

The following tables list the features supported by each Cloud Firewall edition in Billing 2.0.

Note: These tables compare features only and do not include pricing details. For detailed billing rules, refer to Subscription 2.0 and Pay-as-you-go 2.0.

Core features

Feature

Premium Edition (subscription)

Enterprise Edition (subscription)

Ultimate Edition (subscription)

Pay-as-you-go

Number of included firewall instances. For calculation details, refer to How to calculate the number of firewall instances.

1

3

5

Available for an additional fee

Included bandwidth (subscription) or traffic (pay-as-you-go)

30 Mbps

200 Mbps

800 Mbps

Available for an additional fee

Additional instances

Available for an additional fee

Available for an additional fee

Available for an additional fee

Not applicable

(Billed based on the actual number of instances)

Additional bandwidth

Available for an additional fee

Available for an additional fee

Available for an additional fee

Not applicable
(Billed based on actual traffic)

Temporary bandwidth expansion

Available for an additional fee

Available for an additional fee

Available for an additional fee

Not applicable
(Billed based on actual traffic)

If your actual traffic exceeds the purchased bandwidth, the overage is billed on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Enabled by default and cannot be disabled

Enabled by default and cannot be disabled

Enabled by default and cannot be disabled

Not applicable

(Billed based on actual traffic)

Access control policy quota

10,000

50,000

100,000 (Contact your account manager for a custom quota)

10,000

Maximum number of member accounts for multi-account management. To increase the quota, contact your account manager.

1,000

1,000

1,000

1,000

Data leaks

Available for an additional fee

Available for an additional fee

Available for an additional fee

Available for an additional fee

Log analysis

Available for an additional fee

Available for an additional fee

Available for an additional fee

Available for an additional fee

Firewall instance calculation

  • Internet firewall: One instance is required for each protected region. Within the same region, only one instance specification is consumed, regardless of the number of protected public IP addresses or whether the IP addresses are IPv4 or IPv6.

  • NAT firewall: One instance is required for each NAT Gateway instance.

  • VPC firewall:

    • In a Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN) Enterprise Edition architecture, one instance is required for each Transit Router (TR).

    • In a CEN Basic Edition architecture, one instance is required for each VPC.

    • In a VPC peering connection architecture, one instance is required for each pair of VPCs.

  • Multi-account Management: If you enable this feature, the assets of each member account consume a Cloud Firewall instance specification and incur a separate instance fee.

Boundary firewalls

Feature

Premium Edition (subscription)

Enterprise Edition (subscription)

Ultimate Edition (subscription)

Pay-as-you-go

internet firewall

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

NAT firewall

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

VPC firewall

Not supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Traffic analysis

Feature

Premium Edition (subscription)

Enterprise Edition (subscription)

Ultimate Edition (subscription)

Pay-as-you-go

outbound connection

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

internet exposure

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

VPC access

Not supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Protection configuration

Feature

Premium Edition (subscription)

Enterprise Edition (subscription)

Ultimate Edition (subscription)

Pay-as-you-go

IPS configuration

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Configure access control policies for internet firewalls

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Configure access control policies for NAT firewalls

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Configure access control policies for VPC firewalls

Not supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

address book

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

synchronization node

Supported. You can configure up to 2 synchronization nodes each for ACK and DNS.

Supported. You can configure up to 5 synchronization nodes each for ACK and DNS.

Supported. You can configure up to 10 synchronization nodes each for ACK and DNS.

Supported. You can configure up to 5 synchronization nodes each for ACK and DNS.

Security group configuration

Not supported

Supported

Supported

Not supported

Security group check

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Detection and response

Feature

Premium Edition (subscription)

Enterprise Edition (subscription)

Ultimate Edition (subscription)

Pay-as-you-go

Security events

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Data leaks

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

log auditing

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

log analysis

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

System settings

Feature

Premium Edition (subscription)

Enterprise Edition (subscription)

Ultimate Edition (subscription)

Pay-as-you-go

Alert notifications

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Custom grouping

Security group visualization

Application group visualization

Not supported

Supported

Supported

Not supported

Overview

Feature

Premium Edition (subscription)

Enterprise Edition (subscription)

Ultimate Edition (subscription)

Pay-as-you-go

Data overview

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

traffic topology graph

Not supported

Supported

Supported

Not supported