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Cloud Firewall:[Announcement] NAT Firewall of Cloud Firewall is available for commercial use

Last Updated:Aug 31, 2023

Dear Alibaba Cloud users,

The NAT Firewall feature of Cloud Firewall will be available for commercial use in middle to late of September in 2023. NAT firewalls can help you manage and audit outbound service traffic that is destined for the Internet. This helps improve the security of your services. After the NAT Firewall feature is available for commercial use, you can enable NAT Firewall if you use the following editions of Cloud Firewall that uses the subscription billing method: Premium Edition, Enterprise Edition, and Ultimate Edition. You can also upgrade the specifications of NAT Firewall.

Core capabilities of NAT Firewall

  • Enable NAT Firewall with a few clicks

  • Analyze traffic that originates from Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances and is destined for the Internet

  • Perform access control on traffic that originates from ECS instances and is destined for the Internet at Layer 4 to Layer 7

  • Audit the logs of traffic that originates from ECS instances and is destined for the Internet

Release date

Middle to late September in 2023

Billing

The following table describes the default specifications and billing rules of NAT firewalls in different editions of Cloud Firewall.

Billable item

Premium Edition

Enterprise Edition

Ultimate Edition

Additional quota and fee

Number of NAT firewalls

Default quota: 0

Default quota: 1

Default quota: 2

USD 32 per NAT firewall-month

Bandwidth of private network traffic that can be protected by a NAT firewall

Default quota: 0 Mbit/s

Default quota: 10 Mbit/s

Default quota: 20 Mbit/s

The extra fee varies based on the number of additional bandwidth of private network traffic that you want to protect.

  • Valid values for additional quota: 0 to 200 Mbit/s. Extra fee: USD 5.5 per month for increment of each Mbit/s of bandwidth.

  • Valid values for additional quota: 200 to 1000 Mbit/s. Extra fee: USD 3.2 per month for increment of each Mbit/s of bandwidth.

  • Valid values for additional quota: greater than 1000 Mbit/s. Extra fee: USD 2.4 per month for increment of each Mbit/s of bandwidth.