Introducing AWS Gateway Load Balancer – Easy Deployment, Scalability, and High Availability for Partner Appliances - Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) , a service that makes it easy and cost-effective to deploy, scale and manage the availability of third-party virtual appliances such as firewalls , intrusion detection and prevention systems , and deep packet inspection systems in the cloud. GWLB uses Gateway Load Balancer Endpoint (GWLBe), a new type of VPC Endpoint powered by AWS PrivateLink , can be a next-hop in the route table.