--- title: [Preview Announcement] Re-introducing Forward Proxy as... description: AWS is re-introducing explicit forward proxy as a built-in functionality of AWS Network Firewall, responding to customer feedback from the original standalone... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/preview-announcement-re-introducing-forward-proxy-as-aws-network-firewall-functionality-javwejhmn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: [Preview Announcement] Re-introducing Forward Proxy as AWS Network Firewall Functionality | daily.dev og:description: AWS is re-introducing explicit forward proxy as a built-in functionality of AWS Network Firewall, responding to customer feedback from the original standalone... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/preview-announcement-re-introducing-forward-proxy-as-aws-network-firewall-functionality-javwejhmn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/javWEjhmn.png og:image:alt: [Preview Announcement] Re-introducing Forward Proxy as AWS Network Firewall Functionality og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # [Preview Announcement] Re-introducing Forward Proxy as AWS Network Firewall Functionality **[AWS](https://daily.dev/sources/aws)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AWS is re-introducing explicit forward proxy as a built-in functionality of AWS Network Firewall, responding to customer feedback from the original standalone preview launched in November 2025. The new approach lets customers use a single firewall policy for both explicit proxy and transparent firewall modes, maintaining parity with existing features like managed rule groups, active threat defense, Geo-IP filtering, URL/domain category filtering, and container attribute-based rules for EKS and ECS. This is deployed via a new 'no-source-preservation' mode, currently available in public preview in the US East (Ohio) region at no cost. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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