pfSense Plus by Netgate is an open-source driven firewall, router, and VPN solution designed for network edge and cloud secure networking. It is trusted worldwide with over seven million installations, protecting consumers, businesses, governments, and educational institutions. pfSense Plus is available on AWS and Azure, allowing deployment within existing cloud infrastructure, combining cloud flexibility and scalability with robust security features. It offers advanced firewall protection, VPN capabilities, and threat management, all optimized for the cloud. pfSense Plus can be configured as a remote-access or site-to-site VPN, supporting multiple VPN tunnels over a single physical interface. It includes a rich set of add-in packages that allow customers to tailor it to almost any edge or cloud secure networking need. pfSense Plus supports various open source projects, Internet standards and protocols, and independently maintained software modules. It includes a free implementation of the RADIUS protocol for Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA), a GUI for the FRR routing daemon supporting BGP, OSPF, and OSPF6, and a basic FTP client proxy using ftp-proxy from FreeBSD. It also features a reliable, high performance TCP/HTTP(S) load balancer that implements TCP, HTTP, and HTTPS balancing features from haproxy and supports ACLs for smart backend switching. pfSense Plus generates pre-configured OpenVPN configuration files for clients, Windows Client installers with configurations bundled, and Mac OS X Viscosity configuration bundles. It includes an open source network intrusion detection and prevention system (IDS/IPS) combining signature, protocol, and anomaly-based inspection. pfSense Plus supports multiple versions and is available on a range of compute instances in the AWS and Azure Marketplaces, each with its own performance spectrum based on CPU, memory, and network interface speeds.
