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Monday, August 17, 2026

AWS Network Firewall Gets Rule Hit Counts for Better Visibility

AWS Network Firewall now tracks how often each stateful rule matches your traffic, giving you concrete data to spot redundant rules, speed up incident response, and validate policy changes. This feature rolls out across all AWS regions (except Middle East locations) at no extra cost, with metrics updating as frequently as every 5 minutes.

source: [aws/whats-new]