Index › Vendors › AWS Network Firewall · September 2026 Edition

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AWS Network Firewall

4Judge labels

0First choices

4Negative labels

2 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. AWS Network Firewall was named 2 times in Firewalls, where Fortinet FortiGate led with 61%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market100 of 100

under the label threshold

Enterprise84 of 86

under the label threshold

In firewalls · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named AWS Network Firewall for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Next-generation firewalls	Network and edge	0%	100 of 100	100%	2	under 10 labels · led by Fortinet FortiGate at 61%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for AWS Network Firewall yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated AWS Network Firewall across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

No positive label carried a quote.

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Be cautious with native cloud firewall offerings. AWS Network Firewall blocked just 36 exploits out of 951 tested (3.9%)” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Firewalls · negative prompt · hard negative

“Brands to approach with caution: AWS Network Firewall, Microsoft Azure Firewall (Standard/Basic), Google Cloud Firewall.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Firewalls · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as AWS Network Firewall, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and AWS Network Firewall was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Palo Alto Networks4 of 41Not in the top three

Fortinet4 of 40Not in the top three

Azure Firewall3 of 40Not in the top three

Check Point3 of 40Not in the top three

SonicWall3 of 40Not in the top three

Cisco Secure Firewall2 of 40Not in the top three

Sophos2 of 40Not in the top three

Arista Edge Threat Management1 of 40Not in the top three

Cisco1 of 40Not in the top three

Cisco Meraki1 of 40Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named AWS Network Firewall. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 2 of the 4 answers that named AWS Network Firewall and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

checkpoint.com2

cisco.com2

fortinet.com2

libertify.com2

nomios.com2

abisec.medium.com1

bishopfox.com1

businesswire.com1

cloudflare.com1

comparitech.com1

No domain is on file for AWS Network Firewall, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

cisco.com/c/en/us/support/security/firepower-ngfw/products-security-advisories-list.html2

libertify.com/interactive-library/cloud-ngfw-security-assessment2

nomios.com/news-blog/top-5-solutions-ngfw-20262

abisec.medium.com/next-generation-firewall-72acf3a2c1a61

bishopfox.com/blog/its-2024-and-over-178-000-sonicwall-firewalls-are-publicly-exploitable1

businesswire.com/news/home/20240514134119/en/Global-%248.6-Bn-Next-generation-Firewall-Mar1

checkpoint.com/comparison/top-4-ngfw-compared1

checkpoint.com/cyber-hub/network-security/what-is-next-generation-firewall-ngfw1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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