Cloud security and data solutions firm Barracuda Networks Inc. today announced new cloud features for its main firewall products.

The new public cloud functions, which will be available in both the Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Barracuda NextGen Firewall, provide automated security controls that aim to deliver customers an easy migration path for moving their data securely to the public cloud. The functions are aimed at DevOps personnel, the combined software development and information technology management operations that many companies have adopted.

In addition to the new controls, the company’s NextGen Firewall service will also be available as a metered billing service in the Amazon Web Services Inc. Marketplace, joining the Barracuda Web Application Firewall which became available via AWS last year. The move to deliver the NextGen Firewall to the AWS Marketplace Metering Service Billing is said to remove any licensing friction because pricing for the service will now be based on actual traffic secured.

Customers will also be able to build Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines that include their independent software vendor partner solutions with charges based on the total
bandwidth consumed across deployed firewalls and standard Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud charges per instance.

Security operations personnel using the Puppet Labs open-source software configuration management tool will now have access to a REST API framework can be used to automate the configuration of the Barracuda Web Application Firewall with AWS, with a goal to make it easier to integrate security controls into their cloud-native applications on AWS.

“Perimeter-based firewalls create tightly coupled environments that scale vertically, which makes perfect sense on-premises but is entirely the wrong model for the public cloud,” Tim Jefferson, vice president of public cloud at Barracuda, said in a statement. “Customers should look to automate the orchestration, deployment and configuration of security architectures that are loosely coupled and scale elastically. In today’s hybrid environments, customers need effective security for both on-premises and cloud-based environments.”

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