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Do I need a Firewall and WAF for Website HTTPS traffic only
How would adding a firewall add significantly to your monthly bill?
I would think adding strategically placed Network Security Groups to your solution would give you additional adequate protection without significant cost.
Hi there Darrick,
Thanks for your response.
The Firewall appears to be just over $900 US converted to Canadian that's close to $1,200 per month.
The 2 WAF costs $280 CDN per month (have to deploy 2).
The rest of the solution uses a couple of front end and back ends subnets (with NSGs) and couple of burstable VMs in each subnet which are also quite cheap.
Looks like the FW alone costs more per month then rest of this light weight 2-tiered web app total solution.
So if WAF does the job, seems like adding the FW will more than double the costs but not sure it's adding equivalent value (as we're only using HTTPS).