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Introduction

A cloud-based software-as-a-service endpoint management service called FortiClient Cloud is available. This is a Fortinet-hosted EMS solution.

You can execute EMS functions from the cloud-based EMS. You must complete the following steps to create a cloud-based EMS instance under your FortiCloud user account:

  1. Register a FortiClient Cloud subscription to your FortiCloud account.
  2. Register a FortiClient license contract for management by FortiClient Cloud to your FortiCloud account.
Note

The management capacity data for the latest EMS 7.2 or 7.0 version applies to FortiClient Cloud depending on your instance. See the management capacity for your instance:

You can use FortiClient Cloud to manage the following FortiClient endpoint types:

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
  • iOS
  • Android
  • Chromebook

FortiClient Cloud 24.1 runs EMS 7.2 or 7.0.

FortiClient Cloud is hosted in the following regions:

  • U.S.
  • EMEA
  • APAC

All customer FortiClient Cloud data, including backup instances for redundancy or data recovery, are kept in the region selected when provisioning the cloud instance.

Note

This guide only provides information specific to FortiClient Cloud. For information about EMS features that this guide does not include, see the EMS Administration Guide.

Note

You can use the FortiClient Cloud Service monitoring site to check the status of the FortiClient Cloud service and any scheduled maintenance times.

FortiClient Cloud is Service Organization Controls (SOC2) certified. See SOC2 compliance standard.

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Introduction

A cloud-based software-as-a-service endpoint management service called FortiClient Cloud is available. This is a Fortinet-hosted EMS solution.

You can execute EMS functions from the cloud-based EMS. You must complete the following steps to create a cloud-based EMS instance under your FortiCloud user account:

  1. Register a FortiClient Cloud subscription to your FortiCloud account.
  2. Register a FortiClient license contract for management by FortiClient Cloud to your FortiCloud account.
Note

The management capacity data for the latest EMS 7.2 or 7.0 version applies to FortiClient Cloud depending on your instance. See the management capacity for your instance:

You can use FortiClient Cloud to manage the following FortiClient endpoint types:

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
  • iOS
  • Android
  • Chromebook

FortiClient Cloud 24.1 runs EMS 7.2 or 7.0.

FortiClient Cloud is hosted in the following regions:

  • U.S.
  • EMEA
  • APAC

All customer FortiClient Cloud data, including backup instances for redundancy or data recovery, are kept in the region selected when provisioning the cloud instance.

Note

This guide only provides information specific to FortiClient Cloud. For information about EMS features that this guide does not include, see the EMS Administration Guide.

Note

You can use the FortiClient Cloud Service monitoring site to check the status of the FortiClient Cloud service and any scheduled maintenance times.

FortiClient Cloud is Service Organization Controls (SOC2) certified. See SOC2 compliance standard.