Description
This article describes Traffic Mirroring.
Scope
FortiGate-VM deployed in AWS.
Solution
Traffic Mirroring is an Amazon VPC feature that can be used to copy network traffic from an elastic network interface of type interface. It is possible to find the non-Nitro instance types which supports Traffic Mirroring on this article.
Traffic Mirroring is available only on the following non-Nitro instances types:
C4, D2, G3, G3s, H1, I3, M4, P2, P3, R4, X1, and X1e. Note that this does not include T2 instances.
Traffic Mirroring is not available on the following virtualized Nitro instance types:
General purpose: M6a, M6i, M6in, M7g.
Compute optimized: C6a, C6gn, C6i, C6id, C6in, C7g, Hpc6a.
Memory optimized: R6a, R6i, R6id, R6idn, R6in, R7g, R7iz, X2idn, X2iedn, X2iezn.
Storage optimized: I4g, I4i, Im4gn, Is4gen.
Accelerated computing: Inf2, Trn1.
Traffic Mirroring is not available on bare metal instances.
To change the EC2 instance type:
Select the EC2 instance -> Open the drop-down menu 'Instant state' and select 'Stop instance'.
Wait until the Instance state is 'Stopped' (It can be necessary to log out and log back into the account).
Then open the 'Action' drop-down menu, select 'Instance settings' and select 'Change instance type'.
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