For folks that are deploying ec2-based firewalls already, the hourly cost is flat. Usage price seems high at first but honestly you're paying a premium for any

For folks that are deploying ec2-based firewalls already, the hourly cost is flat. Usage price seems high at first but honestly you're paying a premium for any commercial firewall product. Palo Altos, for example, are $1.38/hr if you license them through the marketplace (above the instance costs). That breaks even at 21GB/hr, so you're likely to pay a lot more for the AWS product for anything in production (possibly by an order of magnitude).