Amazon Web Services (AWS) re-launched its Network Firewall proxy following user feedback about having to manage another separate product.

The offering debuted in preview at the hyperscaler's re:Invent show last November as a standalone product. That meant users would have to manage a separate proxy product with its own security policy model.

Following customer “feedback,” however, the hyperscaler has changed tack, instead providing the offering as a native capability within AWS Network Firewall. A company blog post penned by AWS execs Tom Adamski and Akshay Choudhry reveals customers wanted to apply a single security policy across both transparent firewall and explicit proxy use cases, and subsequently reworked the offering.

The cloud giant’s Network Firewall line now features a deployment mode called "no-source-preservation" that lets users apply a single unified security policy, “even from networks with overlapping classless inter-domain routing (CIDRs).” The firewall attaches a gateway that masks client source IPs and handles connections on the workload's behalf.

“We took that feedback to heart. … With this change, the explicit proxy inherits everything Network Firewall already offers and you can use the same security policy, and even the same firewall, for both transparent firewalling and explicit proxying,” the pair wrote. “There is no second rule language to learn, no duplicate policy to keep in sync, and no separate product to operate.”