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Order types

On AWS, there are usually two order types: BYOL and on-demand.

BYOL offers perpetual (normal series and v-series) and annual subscription (s-series) licensing as opposed to on-demand, which is an hourly subscription available with marketplace-listed products. BYOL licenses are available for purchase from resellers or your distributors, and the publicly available price list, which is updated quarterly, lists prices. BYOL licensing provides the same ordering practice across all private and public clouds, no matter what the platform is. You must activate a license for the first time you access the instance from the GUI or CLI before you can start using various features.

With an on-demand subscription, the FortiGate-VM becomes available for use immediately after you create the instance. The marketplace product page mentions hourly/annual term-based prices.

For BYOL and on-demand deployments, cloud vendors charge separately for resource consumption on computing instances, storage, and so on, without use of software running on top of it (in this case the FortiGate-VM).

For BYOL, you typically order a combination of products and services including support entitlement. New s-series SKUs contain the VM base and service bundle entitlements for easier ordering. On-demand includes support, for which you must contact Fortinet Support with your customer information. See Support Information on the marketplace product page.

To purchase on-demand, all you need to do is subscribe to the product on the marketplace. However, you must contact Fortinet Support with your customer information to obtain support entitlement. See Creating a support account. For the latest on-demand pricing and support details, see the FortiGate-VM on-demand marketplace product page.

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On-demand FortiGate-VM instances do not support the use of virtual domains (VDOMs). If you plan to use VDOMs, deploy BYOL instances instead.

When using a FortiGate-VM on-demand instance, the FortiOS GUI may display expiry dates for FortiGuard services. However, these expiries are automatically extended for as long as the on-demand instance's lifespan. You do not need to be concerned about the expiry of FortiGuard services. For example, the following screenshot shows 2038/01/02.

Order types

On AWS, there are usually two order types: BYOL and on-demand.

BYOL offers perpetual (normal series and v-series) and annual subscription (s-series) licensing as opposed to on-demand, which is an hourly subscription available with marketplace-listed products. BYOL licenses are available for purchase from resellers or your distributors, and the publicly available price list, which is updated quarterly, lists prices. BYOL licensing provides the same ordering practice across all private and public clouds, no matter what the platform is. You must activate a license for the first time you access the instance from the GUI or CLI before you can start using various features.

With an on-demand subscription, the FortiGate-VM becomes available for use immediately after you create the instance. The marketplace product page mentions hourly/annual term-based prices.

For BYOL and on-demand deployments, cloud vendors charge separately for resource consumption on computing instances, storage, and so on, without use of software running on top of it (in this case the FortiGate-VM).

For BYOL, you typically order a combination of products and services including support entitlement. New s-series SKUs contain the VM base and service bundle entitlements for easier ordering. On-demand includes support, for which you must contact Fortinet Support with your customer information. See Support Information on the marketplace product page.

To purchase on-demand, all you need to do is subscribe to the product on the marketplace. However, you must contact Fortinet Support with your customer information to obtain support entitlement. See Creating a support account. For the latest on-demand pricing and support details, see the FortiGate-VM on-demand marketplace product page.

note icon

On-demand FortiGate-VM instances do not support the use of virtual domains (VDOMs). If you plan to use VDOMs, deploy BYOL instances instead.

When using a FortiGate-VM on-demand instance, the FortiOS GUI may display expiry dates for FortiGuard services. However, these expiries are automatically extended for as long as the on-demand instance's lifespan. You do not need to be concerned about the expiry of FortiGuard services. For example, the following screenshot shows 2038/01/02.