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Administration Guide

Feature comparison

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:

  • 7.0.14 and later
  • 7.2.8 and later
  • 7.4.2 and later
  • 7.6

Read/write

The following FortiOS versions support read/write cloud access:

  • 7.0.2 and later
  • 7.2
  • 7.4
  • 7.6

Read/write

The following FortiOS versions support read/write cloud access:

  • 7.0.2 and later
  • 7.2
  • 7.4
  • 7.6

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.

  • 7.6.0 and later versions
  • 7.4.2 and later versions
  • 7.2.8 and later versions
  • 7.0.14 and later versions

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

Feature comparison

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:

  • 7.0.14 and later
  • 7.2.8 and later
  • 7.4.2 and later
  • 7.6

Read/write

The following FortiOS versions support read/write cloud access:

  • 7.0.2 and later
  • 7.2
  • 7.4
  • 7.6

Read/write

The following FortiOS versions support read/write cloud access:

  • 7.0.2 and later
  • 7.2
  • 7.4
  • 7.6

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.

  • 7.6.0 and later versions
  • 7.4.2 and later versions
  • 7.2.8 and later versions
  • 7.0.14 and later versions

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