Google Cloud NGFW

Free plan · paid from $0.02

What the maker publishes

Automation interfaces

Google Cloud documents APIs and the gcloud CLI for Cloud NGFW and provides Terraform guidance for hierarchical firewall policy configuration. source

Central management

Yes source

Data protection

Google Cloud states that it encrypts data in transit between its facilities and at rest, with access to encryption keys limited to authorized roles and services with audited access. source

Distributed inspection

Cloud NGFW uses a fully distributed, stateful inspection firewall engine built into Google Cloud's software-defined networking fabric and enforced at each workload. source

Documentation and support

Cloud NGFW documentation provides quickstarts, guides, references, troubleshooting help, quotas and limits, billing questions, training, and code samples. source

Domain filtering

FQDN-based objects filter traffic by domain even when the underlying IP addresses change. source

Dynamic policy objects

Google Cloud Threat Intelligence lists, FQDN objects, and geolocation objects are curated by Google, constantly updated, and automatically applied in firewall rules that call them. source

Endpoint limits

Firewall endpoints support a maximum of 250 Mbps per connection with TLS inspection and 1.25 Gbps without TLS inspection. source

Free plan

Yes source

Intended workloads

Cloud NGFW is designed to protect Google Cloud workloads against external threats from the internet and internal threats within the network. source

Micro-segmentation

IAM-governed tags provide granular control over north-south and east-west traffic down to a single VM across VPCs and organizations. source

Outbound control

advanced source

Supported platforms

web,api source

Policy hierarchy

Network firewall policies are global by default, apply to all regions, and can be defined at organization, folder, and project levels with hierarchical firewall policies. source

Rule direction

both source

Security and compliance

Google Cloud states that its compliance offerings include ISO/IEC 27001/27017/27018/27701, SOC 1/2/3, PCI DSS, FedRAMP, GDPR alignment, and HIPAA alignment. source

Threat intelligence integration

Cloud NGFW can block traffic using curated malicious IP and domain lists aggregated from Google, third-party, and open-source feeds. source

Threat prevention

Cloud NGFW Enterprise provides an intrusion detection and prevention service powered by Palo Alto Networks that protects against malware, spyware, and command-and-control attacks. source

TLS inspection

Cloud NGFW supports TLS interception and decryption for inspecting selected encrypted inbound, outbound, and internal Google Cloud traffic. source

Checked against the maker's pages on 28 Sept 2026.