
Fortinet's partnership with AWS delivers scalable security solutions that can be easily integrated into your existing infrastructure. This partnership allows you to leverage Fortinet's advanced security features in the cloud.
Fortinet's security solutions are designed to provide real-time threat detection and prevention, protecting your applications and data from cyber threats. With Fortinet's cloud-based security solutions, you can improve your security posture without sacrificing performance.
Fortinet's partnership with AWS provides a seamless integration of security features, making it easy to deploy and manage your security solutions. This integration also enables you to take advantage of AWS's scalability and flexibility.
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Fortinet and AWS Partnership
Fortinet has a strong collaboration with AWS services, including AWS Transit Gateway and AWS Outposts. This partnership provides a complete cloud security services and cloud management solution for enterprise customers.
FortiGate-VM Next Generation Firewall Security and AWS Gateway Load Balancer work together to give organizations fast and flexible access to the cloud. This means that organizations using AWS can confidently migrate to AWS environments knowing their workloads will be protected with Fortinet's cloud security offerings.
Some key benefits of this partnership include increased visibility and control across cloud infrastructures, enabling secure applications and connectivity from data center to cloud.
Collaborates with AWS on next-gen firewall solution
Fortinet collaborates with AWS on a next-gen firewall solution that provides fast and flexible access to the cloud. This collaboration combines FortiGate-VM Next Generation Firewall Security with AWS Gateway Load Balancer to give enterprise customers a complete cloud security and management solution.
Fortinet's cloud security offerings protect workloads in AWS environments, giving organizations confidence to migrate to the cloud. This means businesses can move their operations to the cloud without worrying about security.
Together, Fortinet and AWS provide a complete cloud security solution that includes visibility and control across cloud infrastructures. This enables secure applications and connectivity from the data center to the cloud.
Here are some key benefits of Fortinet's collaboration with AWS:
Fortinet's dynamic cloud security solutions enable secure applications and connectivity from the data center to the cloud. By leveraging Fortinet's cloud security offerings, organizations can confidently migrate to AWS environments and protect their workloads in the cloud.
Documentation and Architecture
Deploying high availability (HA) for FortiGate-VM is a crucial step in setting up a robust security infrastructure.
You can deploy HA for FortiGate-VM to ensure continuous operation and minimize downtime.
FortiGate-VM can be deployed using Terraform, a popular infrastructure-as-code tool.
This allows you to automate the deployment process and ensure consistency across your environment.
The AWS Network Firewall IPS Rule Groups Admin Guide provides detailed information on managing and configuring IPS rule groups in AWS.
This guide is essential for understanding how to integrate FortiGate-VM with AWS Network Firewall.
Here are some key resources for learning more about FortiGate-VM and AWS Network Firewall:
- Deploying HA for FortiGate-VM
- Deploying FortiGate-VM using Terraform
- AWS Network Firewall IPS Rule Groups Admin Guide
FortiGate-VM and Security
FortiGate-VM for AWS delivers complete content and network protection by combining stateful inspection with a comprehensive suite of powerful security features.
The solution includes advanced features such as an extreme threat database, vulnerability management, and flow-based inspection, which work in concert to identify and mitigate the latest complex security threats.
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IPS technology protects against current and emerging network-level threats, performing both signature-based and anomaly-based detection.
FortiGate-VM also supports Docker application control signatures to protect container environments from newly emerged security threats.
To avoid surprise costs, it's essential to understand that you're responsible for all costs incurred from the resources you use, including CPU, memory, storage volumes, snapshots, data transfers, and network bandwidth.
To avoid unexpected charges, you should regularly monitor your usage and take steps to optimize your resources.
Here are some key security features of FortiGate-VM for AWS:
- Stateful inspection
- Extreme threat database
- Vulnerability management
- Flow-based inspection
- IPS technology
- Docker application control signatures
Security and Operations
Security Operations is a crucial aspect of Fortinet on AWS. You can deploy High Availability (HA) for FortiAnalyzer-VM to ensure business continuity.
To get started with Security Operations, you can follow the Quick Start guide for deploying the FortiManager-VM on AWS. This will help you set up a secure and scalable management platform.
Here are some key security operations tasks to consider:
- Deploying HA for FortiAnalyzer-VM
- Quick Start: Deploying the FortiManager-VM on AWS
- Security Fabric connector integration with AWS
North-South Inspection
In a typical AWS deployment, most application instances reside in a Private subnet and are blocked from accessing resources outside the local network. This is done to prevent attacks and reduce the risk of breaches.
Some application instances, however, need to be accessible to users over the internet, or need to access other services like automatic software updates. FortiGate-VM with the GWLB service can be deployed to protect these instances.
Customers can use AWS Gateway Load Balancer Endpoints (GWLBE) from their VPCs to secure internet-bound traffic without setting up and managing virtual firewalls and policies. This makes it easier to secure traffic without hassle.
Network traffic from application instances and the internet gateway is sent to a GWLBE in the VPC, which then sends this traffic to the GWLB in a subnet belonging to a centralized security services VPC. This could be managed by a shared security or network operations team.

The GWLB tunnels this VPC traffic to FortiGate virtual firewalls for inspection, isolating traffic sent for inspection from spoke VPCs. The inspected internet traffic is then sent back to the VPC.
Organizations can easily scale the volume of inspected traffic by adding more FortiGate-VM instances in the security services VPC. This is made possible by using GWLB, which also acts as a L4 load balancer.
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East-West Inspection
As organizations adopt AWS, they're quickly moving from single VPC deployments to multiple VPCs managed by application development teams without a security background.
These teams often use open source code that may have vulnerabilities, making it easier for malicious actors to launch attacks between VPCs.
To avoid these scenarios, VPC-to-VPC traffic flows must be inspected, which is where FortiGate-VM with GWLB service comes in.
Most customers adopt TGW when rolling out large numbers of VPCs, and from a network topology and routing perspective, this use case can utilize similar implementations as those discussed for use case 1 with TGW.
GWLB provides a simple and effective way to scale FortiGate virtual firewall protection as the volume of inspected traffic increases.
Security Operations
Security Operations is a critical aspect of maintaining a secure and efficient network.
High Availability (HA) for FortiAnalyzer-VM is a must for ensuring business continuity. You can deploy HA for FortiAnalyzer-VM to minimize downtime and ensure your data is always available.
Quick Start guides are a great resource for getting started with new deployments. The Quick Start guide for deploying the FortiManager-VM on AWS provides a step-by-step process for setting up your FortiManager-VM on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Security Fabric is a key component of Fortinet's security solutions. Integrating Security Fabric connectors with AWS allows for seamless integration and improved security visibility.
Here are some key security operations tasks to consider:
- Deploying HA for FortiAnalyzer-VM
- Deploying the FortiManager-VM on AWS
- Integrating Security Fabric connectors with AWS
Application Security
Application security is crucial in today's digital landscape. You can deploy FortiADC Autoscaling on AWS to ensure your application instances are secure.
FortiWeb-VM is another option for application security on AWS. It's a virtual appliance that can be deployed on the cloud platform to protect your web applications from attacks.
Fortinet's AWS WAF Partner Rule Groups can also be used to enhance application security on AWS. These rule groups provide a set of predefined rules that can be used to detect and prevent common web attacks.
If you're looking for more information on FortiWeb Cloud, you can check out the FortiWeb Cloud FAQ section. It provides answers to frequently asked questions about the service.
Alternatively, you can use the FortiWeb Cloud Ansible Collection to automate the deployment and management of your FortiWeb Cloud instances.
For more advanced automation, you can use the FortiWeb Cloud Jenkins Automation feature. It allows you to automate the deployment and testing of your web applications using Jenkins.
FortiWeb-VM Autoscale is another feature that can be used to ensure your application instances are always secure. It allows you to scale your FortiWeb-VM instances up or down based on the traffic volume.
To further enhance your application security, you can use ShieldsUp! Advanced Tips and Tricks for FortiWeb Cloud. It provides advanced tips and tricks for configuring and optimizing your FortiWeb Cloud instances.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does Fortinet AWS cost?
Fortinet AWS costs approximately $2600 per year, including a $1800 annual license fee and estimated compute and storage costs of $780 per year
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