Feature comparison
FortiGate Cloud offers a different feature set depending on whether or not the device has a paid subscription. The following chart shows the features available for FortiGate Cloud for these scenarios:
|
Feature |
No subscription |
FortiGate Cloud Standard subscription |
FortiGate Cloud Advanced subscription |
|---|---|---|---|
|
CLI scripts |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Cloud access |
Read-only The following FortiOS versions support read-only cloud access:
|
Read/write The following FortiOS versions support read/write cloud access:
|
Read/write The following FortiOS versions support read/write cloud access:
|
|
Cloud management, configurations, and backups |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Cloud provisioning |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Customizable patch firmware upgrade |
No |
Disabled by default and can be enabled |
Disabled by default and can be enabled |
|
Event handlers and incident management |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Extended security operations (indicators of compromise) |
No |
No |
Yes |
|
Hosted log retention |
Seven days |
One year |
One year |
|
Manual firmware upgrade |
Yes, only to the latest patch available. You must manually upgrade a FortiGate without a paid subscription to the latest patch within seven days of the patch becoming available. If the FortiGate is not upgraded within seven days, log upload and cloud access are restricted. See Firmware management. |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Raw log download |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Remote access |
Yes (read-only) For the following FortiOS versions, remote access with full permission (read and write) requires a registered FortiGate Cloud Standard subscription on the FortiGate.
Devices without a registered FortiGate Cloud Standard Subscription running these FortiOS versions only support read-only remote access. |
Yes (read-write) |
Yes (read-write) |
|
Reports |
360 degree activity report only |
Multiple predefined reports |
Multiple predefined reports |
|
SD-WAN monitoring |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
SD-WAN overlay-as-a-service |
No |
No |
Yes |