In today’s multi-cloud world, businesses deploy workloads across dozens of public and private clouds, each with their own network topology, security controls, and operational quirks. Over time this flexibility comes at a cost of increasing complexity and risk. How can budget minded IT team sanely enforce complex security policies, prevent AI-powered cyber breaches by foreign entities, and maintain geographical compliance across such a diverse environment?  They can do so with a partner that leads with an open garden, agnostic approach.

Check Point cloud firewalls, called CloudGuard Network Security, provide integrations across 22 leading public and private cloud vendors from AWS, Azure, and Google, to Red Hat OpenShift, Nutanix, and Equinix. Check Point open garden, agnostic strategy, continues to deliver best-in-class prevention with 100% block rate and 100% false positive accuracy, while efficiently auto-scaling firewalls for dynamic hybrid and multi-cloud deployments.

22 Total Cloud Vendors Supported and Counting

With all the recent cloud vendor collaboration and integration, it’s no wonder Check Point cloud firewalls are recognized as leaders by so many analysts. Here’s a rundown on the support from Check Point firewalls, covering all major cloud vendors and more:

Top Public Cloud Vendors Supported by Check Point Cloud Firewall

AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Huawei, IBM Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent, Alkira, Aviatrix, and Illumio.

The Top Private Cloud Vendors Supported by Check Point Cloud Firewall

VMware, Nutanix, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, MS Hyper-V and Azure Local, Proxmox, Cisco ACI and NFVIS, Equinix Network Edge, Megaport Virtual Edge, OVHcloud, SUSE Harvester, and HPE VM Essentials.

More vendors are constantly being qualified through cloud partner collaboration and open source integration (KVM and OpenStack).

Successful IT departments and their budgets benefit from Check Point’s open garden strategy. Check Point’s collaboration with other security vendors provides great value for our customers.  Check Point Managed Rules for AWS Network Firewalls is a recent example. Through software integration with leading cloud vendors like AWS, Check Point customers gain flexibility and choice in public and private cloud security while lowering the cost of compliance and policy management.

The open garden strategy is based on being vendor agnostic. It’s a critical feature of cloud firewalls from Check Point. For the 3rd year in a row since the report’s inception, Check Point has been named a leader in the GigaOm 2025 Cloud Network Security Radar Report. Through its open garden, collaborative approach, Check Point has continued to demonstrate maturity and customer value expanding support, capabilities, and automation across key cloud use cases and top cloud vendors throughout 2025:

Together, these advancements strengthen Check Point’s award winning leadership in cloud network security delivering unified protection, automation, and interoperability that redefine what’s possible in a multi-cloud world.

Multi-Cloud, One Security Standard

Traditionally, organizations have relied on native security controls of each cloud provider. While adequate for basic protection, these tools lack advanced threat prevention and unified management. This results in unnecessary complexity and business risk to ransomware, data theft, and profitability. It also puts unnecessary strain on already lean IT teams. Check Point changes the game by providing one high-quality, auto-scaling firewall engine that can enforce policies consistently, regardless of the underlying cloud virtualization and networking environment.

Key advantages across all clouds include:

  • Advanced threat prevention: Check Point delivers best-in-class intrusion prevention, anti-malware, and zero-day protection on every supported cloud, preventing attacks before they impact critical workloads.
  • Consistent policy enforcement: Policies defined in Check Point firewalls are automatically translated to the cloud-specific configurations required by each vendor, ensuring uniform security across all environments.
  • Flexible deployment topologies: Whether your workloads are in a hub-and-spoke network, distributed multi-region deployment, or hybrid private-public cloud setup, Check Point cloud firewalls can adapt to your architecture and secure it.
Why Running on Many Cloud Vendors Matters

Supporting 22 cloud vendors is not just a numbers game, it’s about performance and reliability.

Check Point firewalls run natively on cloud VMs, providing full traffic inspection and threat prevention without relying solely on cloud-native gateways. This architecture ensures:

  • Low latency: Traffic inspection occurs close to the workload ensuring high performance.
  • Scalability: Check Point cloud firewalls scale horizontally to meet enterprise demand across multiple regions and providers.
  • Advanced Analytics: Centralized logging provides complete visibility and ThreatCloud AI-powered intelligence continuously updates the firewall to block emerging threats in real time.

Check Point cloud firewalls also deliver resilience, choice, and operational simplicity:

  • Resilience: Enterprises can distribute workloads across cloud vendors without compromising security, reducing downtime risk.
  • Choice: Organizations can pick the best cloud vendor for each workload—cost, performance, compliance—while maintaining the same security posture everywhere.
  • Operational Simplicity: Security teams manage one firewall engine and one policy framework across all clouds instead of juggling multiple tools and vendor-specific consoles.
What’s Next

The modern organization doesn’t just need a firewall, it needs a cloud-agnostic security platform that secures any vendor, scales any network topology, and runs on any VM. By securing all major public and private clouds, Check Point delivers industry-leading protection and unified security operations across your entire multi-cloud footprint.

With Check Point, organizations can confidently innovate in the cloud, knowing that their workloads are safeguarded by the highest quality hybrid mesh network firewall, wherever they run. Take the next step to secure your workloads confidently in any cloud, public or private, see a live demo or find out why Check Point is named over others in the latest GigaOm 2025 Cloud Network Radar Report.

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