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Trusted Network Security for Modern AWS Architectures

Whether securing an AWS landing zone or a hybrid multi-cloud network, FortiGate delivers proven protection, consistent policies, and simplified management through one platform.

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Secure your AWS Landing Zone with Consistent, Proven Network Security

FortiGate VM helps teams secure AWS landing zones and network traffic using consistent policies, centralized visibility, and proven controls that scale across accounts and environments. These protections are continuously strengthened by FortiGuard Labs AI-powered threat intelligence, helping organizations stay ahead of emerging threats without adding operational overhead.

Secure AWS Landing Zones

Apply consistent, policy-driven network security from day one across accounts, VPCs, and regions.

Simplify Security Operations

Centralize visibility and policy enforcement to reduce tool sprawl and operational overhead in AWS.

Stay Ahead of Emerging Threats

Continuously strengthen protections with FortiGuard Labs threat intelligence as environments evolve.

Get Live Expert Guidance on Securing AWS with FortiGate

Ask questions, explore use cases, and understand how FortiGate VM secures AWS landing zones and traffic flows using proven architectures and best practices. Available on demand. No sales pitch. Just clear guidance.

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Designed to Operate Natively in AWS

FortiGate VM is built to align with AWS networking, security, and operational models. It integrates with native AWS services, supports infrastructure-as-code workflows, and scales alongside AWS environments without requiring separate tooling or operational processes.

AWS Gateway Load Balancer

Delivers high availability and resiliency at scale

AWS Transit Gateway

Automatically distributes traffic across FortiGate VM instances

AWS Autoscaling

Seamlessly scales additional resources during periods of high demand

AWS CloudFormation

Simplifies your FortiGate VM deployment for use cases like high availability and more

AWS GuardDuty

Accelerates time to protection by ingesting GuardDuty’s findings into FortiGate policies

FortiGate VM Has It All

Intrusion Prevention System

Stateful Inspection

Deep Packet Inspection

Application Aware Security

SSL & TLS Inspection

Multi-Cloud Support

Auto-Scaling

Site-to-site & Remote Access VPN

Built-in SD-WAN

Dynamic Routing

Network & Micro Segmentation

High Availability

Real-Time Threat Intelligence

Security Fabric Integration

Zero Trust Network Access

Cloud Logging and Integrations

Why Fortinet?

of customers willing to  recommend to their peers²

0k+

global customers, and growing

#10

in network security market share¹

“We moved to AWS for its reliability and the agility to launch applications rapidly, so we designed a security architecture with Gateway Load Balancer and Fortinet FortiGate firewalls across different Availability Zones to enable scaling up and down.”

Hooman Ahmadi 

Network Engineering Manager, Unzer

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A Proven Leader in Cybersecurity

FortiGate VM Deployment

Deploy in Three Easy Steps

STEP 1: Right-size your deployment

Review the FortiGate VM on AWS Datasheet to determine which instance size meets your needs in areas like throughput and bandwidth. Consider also deploying with AWS Graviton instances to optimize your compute costs (pages 6 & 7).

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STEP 2: Subscribe from AWS Marketplace

Follow along with this step-by-step deployment video that walks you through how to subscribe, deploy, and configure FortiGate VM from AWS Marketplace. It also covers the basics of creating VPCs, subnets, routing tables, and connecting to the firewall.

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STEP 3: Deploy with Simplicity

Leverage our pre-built AWS CloudFormation Templates, Terraform Templates, scripts, and other content to help you streamline your deployment for scenarios like high availability, autoscaling, and more.

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Everything You Need to Know About FortiGate VM for AWS

Administration Guide

Step-by-step instructions in the FortiGate VM AWS administration guide.

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Cloud Network Security Toolkit

Everything you need to know to decide on the right next - generation firewall for the cloud.

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Trusted Reference Architectures

Repeatable frameworks for cloud security deployment that reduce the risk of human error.

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FortiGate VM on AWS

Get a quick view of FortiGate VM on AWS including instance sizing, throughput, and more.

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AWS + Fortinet Case Study

Get a quick view of FortiGate VM on AWS including instance sizing, throughput, and more.

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Case Study

Brazilian university secures its journey to AWS with FortiGate VM and other Fortinet solutions.

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¹“Fortinet is the #1 vendor for firewall shipments globally with more than 50% share.” – 650 Group
²As indicated by FortiGate VM user reviews on PeerSpot, March 2025