I’ve been building Enforza, a centrally cloud-managed firewall/gateway platform. The idea came out of frustration with how expensive and complex cloud-native firewalls and NAT gateways have become.
Enforza is designed as the alternative to AWS/Azure/GCP’s equivalents:
- Deploy as a lightweight firewall/NAT gateway in your cloud or hybrid network - install an agent on a linux box.
- Centrally managed from the cloud (no CLI gymnastics, no appliance sprawl)
- Removes the data processing charges that come with native services
- Typically saves teams up to 80% compared to AWS and Azure NAT Gateway/Firewalls
Launched MVP early in 2025, then rebuilt the platform from the ground up for scalability and with customer-requested features.
I’d love feedback from the HN community:
- Where are you still hitting pain with native cloud firewalls/NAT?
- What would you expect a leaner alternative like this to absolutely get right?
- Where do you think I should start advertising (Google PPC, Reddit etc)?
Happy to answer technical questions here — including deployment details, integration, or how the pricing model works.
enforzaguy•4mo ago
I’ve been building Enforza, a centrally cloud-managed firewall/gateway platform. The idea came out of frustration with how expensive and complex cloud-native firewalls and NAT gateways have become.
Enforza is designed as the alternative to AWS/Azure/GCP’s equivalents:
- Deploy as a lightweight firewall/NAT gateway in your cloud or hybrid network - install an agent on a linux box. - Centrally managed from the cloud (no CLI gymnastics, no appliance sprawl) - Removes the data processing charges that come with native services - Typically saves teams up to 80% compared to AWS and Azure NAT Gateway/Firewalls
Launched MVP early in 2025, then rebuilt the platform from the ground up for scalability and with customer-requested features.
I’d love feedback from the HN community:
- Where are you still hitting pain with native cloud firewalls/NAT? - What would you expect a leaner alternative like this to absolutely get right? - Where do you think I should start advertising (Google PPC, Reddit etc)?
Happy to answer technical questions here — including deployment details, integration, or how the pricing model works.
— Neil (founder)