Sophos Firewall: Deploy to AWS

Sophos

Apr 21, 2026

Sophos

A step-by-step tutorial that shows you how to deploy Sophos Firewall in AWS. It covers choosing a license model, creating an EC2 SSH key pair, launching the CloudFormation stack, registering the firewall in Sophos Central, and completing the default certificate.

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Video Chapters*

00:00 Intro

00:11 Overview

00:33 Prerequisites

00:46 License models

01:42 Purchase license

02:23 Create SSH key pair

03:15 Set up AWS stack

05:13 Set up Sophos Firewall

07:23 Complete certificate

07:59 Outro

Relevant Documentation*

📖 Deploy Sophos Firewall on AWS
https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/21.0/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/index.html

📖 Create a key pair using Amazon EC2
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/create-key-pairs.html#having-ec2-create-your-key-pair

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