FortiGate-VM for AWS offers high availability (HA) and a variety of security features to protect your workloads on AWS.
High Availability (HA) can be set up in two ways:
- Active/Passive: If the main firewall fails, a secondary one automatically takes over.
- Active/Active: Traffic is distributed between multiple firewalls for redundancy.
Security Features:
- Protects against threats with stateful inspection and security features.
- IPS technology safeguards against network-level threats.
- Docker application control secures containerized environments.
The following topics provide an overview of different HA configurations when using FortiGate-VM for AWS.