Fortiate now available on Amazon Web Services

Fortinet has announced that FortiGate security platform is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

FortiGate-VM is strategically designed to help customers better mitigate potential blind spots by implementing critical network security controls including bi-directional stateful firewalling, intrusion prevention and VPN within their virtual private cloud (VPC).

Last year, the company announced availability of FortiManager-VM and FortiAnalyzer-VM on AWS, which enable customers to deploy security management and reporting to all FortiGate and FortiGate-VM security technologies running at the edge, in internal networks, at remote offices, within core data centers or deployed in the cloud. And, they are able to do it from a single, centralized management platform. In 2012, the company released FortiWeb-VM for Web application security, which helps secure Web applications and meet compliance requirements.
Users can deploy a mix of hardware and virtual appliances in clouds and virtualized internal data centers, operating together and managed from a common centralized management platform. With increasing support for AWS environments, users deploying AWS instances into Amazon EC2 or Amazon VPC can maintain corporate standards for security and compliance in the cloud.

“AWS is a global leader in IT infrastructure services with many enterprise and government agencies utilizing its services. As such, it is essential that Fortinet provides the same enterprise- class network security on the AWS cloud as we do for core and edge networks. We have a number of customers who have requested we port FortiGate-VM onto AWS, and we’re happy to report that the technology is ready today,” said Rajesh Maurya, Country Manager, India & SAARC, Fortinet.

FortiGate-VM is currently available in the AWS marketplace.