# Announcing Appwrite Firewall: traffic control for your project

DevFeed: [Announcing Appwrite Firewall: traffic control for your project](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/announcing-appwrite-firewall-traffic-control-for-your-project-16413.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://appwrite.io/blog/post/announcing-appwrite-firewall>)

Author: Arnab Chatterjee

Published: 2026-09-04T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Appwrite Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/appwrite-blog.md>)

Topics: [Appwrite](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/appwrite.md>), [Firewall](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firewall.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [firewall](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firewall.md>), [preview](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/preview.md>), [products](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/products.md>), [project](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/project.md>)

## AI overview

Appwrite announces Firewall, a project-level traffic control feature built into Appwrite Cloud. It lets developers define rules for APIs, Functions, and Sites using request conditions such as IP address, path, headers, query parameters, user agent, and location. Rules can allow, deny, challenge, rate-limit, or redirect traffic, with priority ordering and an impact preview before deployment.

## Source excerpt

Appwrite Firewall adds project-level traffic rules to Appwrite Cloud. Deny, bypass, challenge, rate limit, or redirect requests to your API, Functions, and Sites, with an impact preview before every change.