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Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW Reviews & Product Details

Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW Product Details

Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW is a fully managed, cloud-native firewall service designed to enhance security, streamline operations, and provide seamless scalability across various cloud environments, including AWS and Microsoft Azure. This solution is specifically tailored to meet the demands of modern digital infrastructures, offering robust protection for applications and data through inline threat prevention, centralized management, and elastic scaling. With Cloud NGFW, organizations can focus on their core activities without the burden of managing complex infrastructure or traditional firewall appliances. The Cloud NGFW service is built on decades of cybersecurity expertise, extending Palo Alto Networks' renowned prevention capabilities into the cloud. It combines deep application awareness with AI-driven threat detection and advanced controls for users, devices, and workloads. This powerful combination enables organizations to identify and neutralize both known and unknown threats, including zero-day exploits, with automated accuracy. The service is backed by an industry-leading 99.99% availability SLA, ensuring that security measures and operational uptime are effectively aligned. Targeted at businesses of all sizes, Cloud NGFW simplifies cloud network security for both security and cloud infrastructure teams. Whether organizations are migrating workloads, managing hybrid or multi-cloud strategies, or developing new applications directly in the cloud, Cloud NGFW ensures consistent security policy enforcement across diverse environments. Its native integration with AWS Firewall Manager and Azure Virtual WAN, along with compatibility with Strata Cloud Manager, provides teams with a centralized view of their security policies, traffic, and potential threats across all deployments. Key features of Cloud NGFW include flexible consumption options such as pay-as-you-go and credit-based licensing, support for burst traffic through dynamic scaling, and tight integration with Palo Alto Networks' advanced Cloud-Delivered Security Services (CDSS). These services, which include Advanced Threat Prevention, Advanced URL Filtering, Advanced DNS Security, and WildFire, offer inline protections without sacrificing performance. This capability allows teams to effectively reduce security risks while minimizing operational complexity. As organizations increasingly adopt cloud technologies and face evolving cyber threats, they often encounter challenges such as tool sprawl, inconsistent policies, and limited visibility. Cloud NGFW addresses these issues by unifying threat prevention and policy control into a single, intuitive service. This integration helps teams eliminate security gaps, reduce misconfigurations, and respond to incidents more swiftly. By empowering organizations to secure their dynamic cloud environments confidently, Cloud NGFW supports scalability as business needs change, simplifies daily operations, and delivers the high-efficacy protection essential for today's digital-first enterprises.

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Palo Alto Networks

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Languages Supported

German, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified)

Product Description

Protect all the applications you want to migrate. Full Panorama management integration lets you manage it all holistically and prevent security gaps by seamlessly extending existing policies and workflows.

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Ashley Hood (Cloud Firewalls Product Marketer)

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

3 months

Return on Investment

12 months

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Sai Kaushik S.

Senior Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/21/2025

"Review of G2"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW?

Protecting organizations from cyberattacks starts with a network security platform as the cornerstone of an effective network security strategy. Security tools such as next-generation firewalls, cloud-delivered SASE, threat prevention, URL filtering, DNS security, artificial intelligence for operations and IoT security are essential to protect organizations from evasive threats and malware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW?

Nothing as you guys are helping to build firewalls to protect us from cyber attacks, so i feel there is nothing i can say, i feel thhis is helpful for people Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cloud NGFW acts as a security measure for cloud operations. It protects cloud applications by preventing unauthorized access and ensures smooth operation, reducing team workload. Cloud NGFW stops threats, provides clear visibility, and reduces the time needed for security management. It offers a smart, automated security system for all cloud operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Andrei B.

Global Network Security Firewall Specialist - CISO

Security and Investigations

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/29/2025

"Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW - best solution of security"

5/5

What do you like best about Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW?

The best about palo Alto networks Cloud NGFW is ease of implementation and mangement is very advance . Also the TAC support of Palo Alto are very helpfull in the case you have some probelm with inplimentation . They provide a great support and amazing troubleshooting . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW?

The Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW is a amazing solition but compare with differnt vendors is very expensive . Inplimentation is required a backgraund of tehnical people that is very hard to find it . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW solving and how is that benefiting you?

Solving the problem of cloud security in our organization, Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW protects applications used by our users from threats like malware and intrusion attacks without requiring additional solutions also we are using Glob Protect for our company. That make our connection more security using Globbal Protect our traffic is forward to cloud and after to internet . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Alejandro M.

Technical Services Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/9/2025

"Palo Alto Plug and Play"

5/5

What do you like best about Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW?

Honestly, it’s super easy to set up. I expected a bunch of configs and headaches, but nope, just plug it in, follow the setup wizard, and you're good to go. The UI is clean, and I didn’t need to Google every step. Also, the security features are solid out of the box, which is great if you don’t wanna spend hours tweaking every little thing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW?

It can get kinda pricey, especially if you start adding a bunch of extras. Also, the logs can be overwhelming, like, too much info sometimes and not super clear unless you already know what you’re looking at. Would be nice if they had better filtering or summaries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mainly it helped us stop stressing about securing traffic between our cloud stuff. Before, we had a patchwork of tools and manual rules and it was just messy. With Palo Alto’s NGFW, it’s all in one place, easy to manage, and way faster to set up policies that actually work. It also helped us keep compliance in check without spending forever doing audits. Just makes things smoother and less painful overall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Simone R.

Google Technical Solution Specialist

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/2/2025

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5/5

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Subir B.

Senior Program Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/22/2025

"Leading with Empathy, Delivering with Impact"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW?

What I like best about Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW is how seamlessly it integrates enterprise-grade security into cloud-native environments, without compromising agility. It provides deep visibility, threat prevention, and application-aware controls while allowing teams to maintain the speed and flexibility of their cloud operations. The native integration with AWS and other platforms simplifies deployment, automates scaling, and reduces operational overhead. From a leadership perspective, it empowers organizations to confidently accelerate cloud transformation without sacrificing governance or compliance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW?

While Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW is a robust and secure solution, it does come with a learning curve, especially for those new to the platform. That said, I found this to be a motivating challenge. I became genuinely curious as I started exploring it, and within just a couple of weeks, I could ramp up quickly using AI tools and good old Google. That hands-on learning journey deepened my appreciation for the platform’s capabilities and flexibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW solving and how is that benefiting you?

Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW addresses the critical need for consistent, enterprise-grade security across dynamic cloud environments. It solves challenges like lack of visibility, inconsistent policy enforcement, and complex threat prevention in cloud-native workloads. For me, the benefit is twofold: it ensures that security scales with the business—without slowing down innovation—and it gives peace of mind that applications and data are protected, even in fast-moving, hybrid cloud scenarios. It also simplifies operations through automation and tight cloud-native integrations, which is a major win from a program management and transformation standpoint. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Henry O.

Senior Database Administrator

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/6/2025

"An administrator"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW?

Simplified Deployment and Management, Cloud NGFW is easier to deploy and manage compared to traditional firewall appliances or virtual machines. Seamless Integration with Cloud Providers (especially AWS and Azure) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW?

Less Mature in Certain Cloud Environments, While strong in AWS and Azure, but its feature set in other cloud environments (like Google Cloud Platform) might be less extensive compared to its primary supported platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW solving and how is that benefiting you?

Problems

Complexity of Securing Cloud Environments: Traditional security approaches (like deploying virtual firewalls as appliances) in dynamic, scalable cloud environments can be complex to deploy, manage, and scale. This leads to configuration errors, security gaps, and increased operational burden.

Solution.

Improved Security Posture: By providing advanced threat prevention, granular visibility, and consistent policies, Cloud NGFW helps organizations strengthen their security posture in the cloud and reduce the risk of breaches Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Telecommunications

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/21/2025

"Robust features that meets many use cases and catch scenarios, however slightly laggy load times."

3.5/5

What do you like best about Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW?

I like the detailed policy/ rule creation that fits the companies hardware stack. There is no missing features so to say everything is well thought of. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW?

The thing I do not like about Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW is that there is a steep learning curve and the GUI is complicated, I hope for ease of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps the company manage their firewall rules and policy accordingly based on the work that needs to be done or installing new hardware and using it to mitigate threats and it works well with our Elastic Stack. A common daily use case is giving exceptions to people traveling to different countries we give them a rule to allow traffic from there using the work companies laptop after they get approval while certain countries traffic is automatically blocked due to adversarial risks according to government policy that goes down toward regular IT companies and their infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Yaswanth V.

Information Technology Support Engineer

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/26/2025

"Digital Transformation project and having Palo Alto as the External Firewall"

4/5

What do you like best about Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW?

Their high end security and can be Used with third party integration

The support team was very helpful and the suppliers too

Easy to login frequent updates

Implementation was very easy to integrate with other firewalls

we are using it for managing our sd wan Across globe with our head office Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW?

complex to use than others and bit on the high-cost variants and bit of an overkill for smaller environments and certification and training cost way more than others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Navjeet S.

client service representative

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/23/2025

"I had a wonderful experience working with palo alto network cloud"

4/5

What do you like best about Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW?

I like using Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW everyday. It is my go to for getting strong security for my website. Jt integrates perfectly with the other interfaces.

Would recommend it to everyone who values sustainability and efficiency of security systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW?

The complexity of finding the website ans navigate around jt can be reduced.

It took me some time to get familiar to the environment. It is great for AWS, but support on other cloud platforms feels limited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Telecommunications

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/14/2025

"Mr"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW?

Cloud Next generation firewall offers us enterprise version of AI ML powered security without any manual invocation of deployments firewalls scaling and patching etc

It helps in automation of scaling up and down based on traffic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW?

It is very expensive obviously compare to aws and azure firewalls

Limeted features with onprem

Complexity for small teams

Regoion availability as they dont have in some places Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.