Subscribing to FortiGate CNF
To use FortiGate CNF, you must first subscribe to the service through either the AWS Marketplace or the Azure Marketplace. You only need to subscribe once, and you can create any number of FortiGate CNF instances with one subscription.
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You may only have one subscription per FortiCloud account, either Azure or AWS. |
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Accounts subscribed through Azure can only create FortiGate CNF instances for Azure. Accounts subscribed through AWS can create FortiGate CNF instances for both AWS and Azure. |
Before you begin
Requirements
Before you begin the subscription process, you need the following:
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An AWS or Azure account.
This account that is billed for the costs of deployed instances. It may be different than the cloud accounts where you will deploy your instances.
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A FortiCloud account. You may create this account as part of the subscription process.
Subscription options
The following subscription options are available:
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Consumption: You are charged based on FortiGate CNF usage, with no minimum commitment.
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Contract: You are charged for a yearly contract (for increments of a one-year commitment) with a committed amount of credits available for use with in the contract period. The credits will be available to use for FortiGate CNF instances and security traffic processing. If your usage exceeds the available credits, the overage is charged at the consumption rate.
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30 day free trial: See 30-day free trial. (Available only for AWS subscriptions.)
Sandbox pricing (AWS)
Sandbox pricing is available, but it is only supported if you have your own AWS sandbox environment.
Supported VPCs (AWS)
FortiGate CNF supports up to 50 VPCs for each FortiGate CNF instance.
Billing
Billing is calculated based on six factors:
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CNF Hours (multi-AZ cluster): The length of time that FortiGate CNF instances have been deployed.
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CNF Hours Support: Support Entitlement Hours – added to every FortiGate CNF instance hour.
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Traffic: The amount of data that has been processed by each FortiGate CNF security function.
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IPS Traffic: The amount of data that has been processed by each FortiGate CNF for IPS processing.
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URL and DNS Filter Traffic: The amount of data that has been processed by each FortiGate CNF for URL and DNS filtering.
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External Sandbox Traffic: The amount of data that has been processed by each FortiGate CNF for sandboxing feature.
There is a separate rate for each of these dimensions. Your total bill is the sum of all dimensions.
For more information about pricing, see the FortiGate CNF datasheet.
For more information about the billing report available in the FortiGate CNF console, see Billing.