Right-size Your Deployment
Before you subscribe, we recommend reviewing the FortiGate-VM on AWS datasheet, pages 6 and 7, to learn about the bandwidth, throughput, and specifications of each instance type and ensure the deployment fulfills your needs.
You might also consider deploying with an Amazon Graviton-based EC2 instance for potential compute cost optimization.
Subscribe, Deploy, and Configure from AWS Marketplace
This 11-minute video walks you through how to subscribe, deploy, and configure FortiGate-VM from AWS Marketplace, with information on creating VPCs, subnets, routing tables, and connecting to the FortiGate-VM.
Follow our QuickStart Workshop
You may also want to take our free, hands-on QuickStart Workshop, where an example corporation is migrating on premise apps and workloads to AWS.
It covers foundational AWS networking concepts such as symmetrical routing traffic in and out of VPCs for various traffic flows, how to use FortiGate instances in AWS to secure inbound, outbound, and East/West traffic flows, and how FortiGate resolves concerns and requirements when migrating applications & workloads to public cloud.
AWS CloudFormation Templates, Terraform Templates, and more
Note: You must first be subscribed to FortiGate-VM via AWS Marketplace. These deployment templates will not automatically subscribe users.
AWS CloudFormation Templates, Terraform Templates, scripts and other content are available on GitHub to help you get started with Fortinet Solutions in AWS: https://github.com/FortinetCloudCSE/.github/tree/main/profile/AWS
These include:
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FortiGate Standalone
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FortiGate FGCP HA Dual AZ (use cases)
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FortiGate FGCP HA Single AZ
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FortiGate & Gateway Load Balancer (use cases)
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FortiGate Active-Active & Transit Gateway Connect
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FortiGate FGCP HA Dual AZ & Transit Gateway Connect
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FortiGate Auto Scale
Complete Documentation
The AWS Administration Guide offers complete step-by-step documentation and information for the latest versions, and can be found here:
You can view guides for your current FortiOS deployment by choosing from the dropdown menu:
You can also find our complete AWS Cloud Security documentation library here: https://docs.fortinet.com/cloud-solutions/aws
Setting up a Support Account
We also encourage you to register your on-demand instances with FortiCloud so that you can create a support account. Details are available here:
https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate-public-cloud/7.4.0/aws-administration-guide/315515/on-d...
Additional Information
You may next want to explore the following:
- Optimizing your compute costs by using AWS Graviton-based instances: https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate-VM-on-AWS-Onboarding/Optimizing-Your-Compute-Costs-with-...
- Streamlining your licensing and provisioning with FortiFlex: https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate-VM-on-AWS-Onboarding/Utilizing-FortiFlex-with-AWS/td-p/3...
- View our Technical Learning hub for more information on topics like AWS integrations, SD-WAN, and more: https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate-VM-on-AWS-Technical/bg-p/fortigate-vm-on-awsblog-board
