Solution Brief | WAF as a Service and AWS
Check Point WAF as a Service for AWS is an AI‑powered, fully managed WAF service delivering automated app, API, and generative AI security on the AWS cloud with rapid deployment and zero‑day threat prevention.

Benefits
Deploy once within minutes
Available on AWS Marketplace, Check Point WAF as a Service delivers a non-agent web
application firewall deployable within minutes. Only a one-time DNS configuration is
necessary for WAF as a Service to start routing traffic securely to applications in the cloud.
Prevent DDoS and automated attacks
Check Point uses CDN delivery to guarantee continuous service and defense against Denial
of Service (DDoS) attacks and bot-driven assaults. By distributing content across various
servers, CDNs safeguard websites against malicious attacks such as DDoS, ensuring higher
traffic management and improved resilience to hardware failures.
No more agent deployments
By routing your traffic through Check Point servers, WAF as a Service will automatically be
deployed on AWS (or any public, private, or hybrid cloud environment) and will automatically
provide and renew SSL certificates.
Challenges
Traditional WAFs: too time consuming to
manage, too slow for cloud development
According to the Ponemon Institute, an average company needs
multiple full-time security administrators to manage a traditional
WAF: 45 hours per week on alerts and an additional 16 hours on rule
creation. Annual costs can exceed half a million dollars.
Traditional WAFs often fall short of today’s organizational and
security needs, which demand real-time prevention with minimal
(ideally zero) false positives. Organizations also require solutions
that deploy quickly, integrate seamlessly with AWS services, and
minimize administrative overhead, ensuring effective protection
without draining valuable resources.
Check Point WAF as a Service provides fully managed web application and API security
powered by AI/ML engines, providing maximum security with minimal administration.
Check Point WAF as a Service
A powerful fully-managed WAF for the cloud
Check Point WAF as a Service offers a complete suite of web
application, generative AI, and API protection for AWS, other public
and hybrid clouds, and modern network architectures.
With features ranging from AI-based threat detection, API discovery,
and bot prevention to file security and rate limiting, Check Point WAF
as a Service is an entirely automated offering that provides the
advantages of a high-quality web application firewall with minimal
manual input.
Contact: aws@checkpoint.com
Fully managed app, generative AI,
and API security as a cloud service
Case Study:
BBVA
Supporting an innovative web app rollout BBVA, one of the largest financial institutions in the world, required
protection for a large network of services, applications, and APIs.
Increased visibility and easy management was needed to support
wide-scale development and CI/CD automation.
Features
Beginning to use Check Point WAF as a Service
only requires a few steps after purchasing in
AWS Marketplace. Simply add a CNAME record
to your domain’s DNS settings and point it to
Check Point. This will ensure that when users
type in your domain name, the DNS server will
promptly search for and return the IP address of
Check Point’s cloud to their respective web
browsers.
Visit AWS Marketplace to
purchase or start a Free
Trial today.
Check Point
on AWS
Check Point is an AWS Software Partner. Check Point’s Check Point WAF
as a Service enhances and complements native AWS controls with AI-
powered contextual analysis, generative and agentic AI security, automated
API schema, API gateway security, and structure awareness. The solution
preemptively blocks known and unknown threats including SQL injections,
insecure direct object references, path traversal, cross-side scripting, XXE,
command execution, and many more unauthorized access techniques.
Check Point WAF as a Service can be easily deployed directly via AWS
Marketplace in less than 15 minutes.
Get started with Check Point solutions on AWS
Get started with Check Point solutions
on AWS
Secure your traffic immediately
Traditional WAF and application security
customers run their products in report-only or
alert-only modes because of the high level of
false positives. Not with Check Point WAF
offerings: 90% of customers run the solution in
prevent mode in production environments. With
continuous learning, your app will remain
protected even as DevOps releases new
content. Remain confident in your application
threat prevention, with automated web
application and API protection.
Confidently run in production
Security that keeps up with the speed of DevOps Check Point was chosen for its automated web application and API
protection to deliver leading-edge protections against both known and
unknown cyberattacks. One differentiator was the ability to precisely
detect and eliminate risks without the need to constantly tune false
positives.
Protection against zero-day attacks BBVA discovered that Check Point preemptively protected their
systems from zero-day attacks without needing signature or rule
updates, while many other organizations suffered days of business
disruption. Check Point’s WAF solution also streamlined operations
through a single, centralized dashboard.
Contact: Contact: aws@checkpoint.com
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