Can I pause being charged for a Fortigate on AWS?

[RodGarcía]

Hi Fortigate experts,

we need your kind help.

End customer needs a DRP for some of their on-premise business critical applications.

We are proposing AWS for the DRP environment .

We are proposing Fortigate to protect some internet exposed services and also to enable VPN Clients to connect to the AWS DRP environment.

The AWS DRP environment (and therefore the Fortigate) is only needed when DRP is declared by the IT department (1 or 2 times per year for around 24hrs each time).

Is it possible to avoid being charged the Fortigate prices when DRP environment is not needed?, for example, "turning off" or "disabling" the Fortigate when it is not needed and "turning it on" only when needed ( or 2 times per year) without losing configurations?

Thanks

[sjoshi]

Yes, it is possible to pause being charged for the FortiGate on AWS by leveraging the on-demand pricing model. In this model, users only pay for the specific hours of operation and amount of traffic that is scanned by each inspection engine. You can "turn off" or "disable" the FortiGate when it is not needed and "turn it on" only when required without losing configurations. This flexibility allows you to optimize costs by paying only for the actual usage during the DRP events, typically 1 or 2 times per year for around 24 hours each time.

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