ResourceGroup Tag Key used on all resources and as the name prefix of all applicable resources. Can only contain uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, ampersand (@), hyphens (-), period (.), and hash (#).

Maximum length is 50.

List of Availability Zones to use for the subnets in the VPC. The FortiGate Autoscale solution uses two Availability Zones from your list and preserves the logical order you specify.

Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) block for the FortiGate Autoscale VPC.

CIDR block for the subnet located in Availability Zone 1 where FortiGate Autoscale instances will be deployed to.

CIDR block for the subnet located in Availability Zone 2 where FortiGate Autoscale instances will be deployed to.

CIDR block for the private subnet located in Availability Zone 1 where it is protected by the FortiGate-VMs in the public subnet of the same Availability Zone.

ID of the existing VPC where FortiGate Autoscale will be deployed. The VPC must have the option DNS hostnames enabled and each of the two Availability Zones in the VPC must have at least 1 public subnet and at least 1 private subnet.

CIDR block of the selected existing VPC into which FortiGate Autoscale will be deployed. This can be found in parentheses in the VPC ID parameter selection.

ID of the Private VPC Endpoint associated with the existing VPC.

A Private VPC Endpoint is required for FortiGate Autoscale and is a VPC Endpoint that has enabled Private DNS names.

ID of the public subnet 1 located in Availability Zone 1 of the selected existing VPC. The FortiGate Autoscale instances will be deployed here.

ID of the public subnet 2 located in Availability Zone 2 of the selected existing VPC. The FortiGate Autoscale instances will be deployed here.

ID of the private subnet 1 located in Availability Zone 1 of the selected existing VPC. This subnet will be protected by the FortiGate-VMs in the public subnet of the same Availability Zone.

ID of the private subnet 2 located in Availability Zone 2 of the selected existing VPC. This subnet will be protected by the FortiGate-VMs in the public subnet of the same Availability Zone.

The list of Availability Zones to use for the subnets in the VPC. The FortiGate Autoscale solution uses two Availability Zones from your list and preserves the logical order you specify.

The Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) block for the FortiGate Autoscale VPC.

The CIDR block for the subnet located in Availability Zone 1 where FortiGate Autoscale instances will be deployed to.

Instance type for the FortiGate-VMs in the Auto Scaling group. There are t2.small and compute-optimized instances such as c4 and c5 available with different vCPU sizes and bandwidths. For more information about instance types, see Instance Types.

FortiOS version supported by FortiGate Autoscale for AWS.

Requires one or more subscriptions to Fortinet FortiGate on-demand or BYOL AMIs.

Secret preshared key used by the FortiGate-VM instances to securely communicate with each other. Must contain numbers and letters and may contain special characters.

Maximum length is 128.

Changes to the PSK secret after FortiGate Autoscale for AWS has been deployed are not reflected here. For new instances to be spawned with the changed PSK secret, this environment variable will need to be manually updated.

A port number for FortiGate administration. Minimum is 1. Maximum is 65535. Do not use the FortiGate reserved ports 443, 541, 514, or 703.

CIDR block for external administrator management access.

0.0.0.0/0 accepts connections from any IP address. Use a constrained CIDR range to reduce the potential of inbound attacks from unknown IP addresses.

Amazon EC2 Key Pair for admin access.

Number of FortiGate-VM instances the BYOL Auto Scaling group should have at any time. For High Availability in BYOL-only and Hybrid use cases, ensure at least 2 FortiGate-VMs are in the group. For specific use cases, set to 0 for On-demand-only, and >= 2 for BYOL-only or hybrid licensing.

Minimum number of FortiGate-VM instances in the BYOL Auto Scaling group. For specific use cases, set to 0 for On-demand-only, and >= 2 for BYOL-only or hybrid licensing.

For BYOL-only and hybrid licensing deployments, this parameter must be at least 2. If it is set to 1 and the instance fails to work, the current FortiGate-VM configuration will be lost.

Maximum number of FortiGate-VM instances in the BYOL Auto Scaling group. For specific use cases, set to 0 for On-demand-only, and >= 2 for BYOL-only or hybrid licensing. This number must be greater than or equal to the Minimum group size (BYOL).

Number of FortiGate-VM instances the On-demand Auto Scaling group should have at any time. For High Availability in an On-demand-only use case, ensure at least 2 FortiGate-VMs are in the group. For specific use cases, set to 0 for BYOL-only, >= 2 for On-demand-only, and >= 0 for hybrid licensing.

Minimum number of FortiGate-VM instances in the On-demand Auto Scaling group. For specific use cases, set to 0 for BYOL-only, >= 2 for On-demand-only, and >= 0 for hybrid licensing.

For On-demand-only deployments, this parameter must be at least 2. If it is set to 1 and the instance fails to work, the current FortiGate-VM configuration will be lost.

Maximum number of FortiGate-VM instances in the On-demand Auto Scaling group. For specific use cases, set to 0 for BYOL-only, >= 2 for On-demand-only, and >= 0 for hybrid licensing. This number must be greater than or equal to the Minimum group size (On-demand instances).

Threshold (in percentage) for the FortiGate Auto Scaling group to scale out (add) 1 instance. Minimum is 1. Maximum is 100.

Threshold (in percentage) for the FortiGate Auto Scaling group to scale in (remove) 1 instance. Minimum is 1. Maximum is 100.

Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for the election of the primary instance to complete. Minimum is 30. Maximum is 3600.

Minimum time (in seconds) permitted before a distributed license can be revoked from a non-responsive FortiGate-VM and re-distributed. Minimum is 300.

Length of time (in seconds) that Auto Scaling waits before checking an instance's health status.

Minimum is 60.

Auto Scaling group waits for the cooldown period (in seconds) to complete before resuming scaling activities. Minimum is 60. Maximum is 3600.

Create a Transit Gateway for the FortiGate Autoscale VPC to attach to, or specify to use an existing one.

Protocol used to load balance traffic.

Port number used to balance web service traffic if the internal web service load balancer is enabled.

Minimum is 1. Maximum is 65535.

Number of consecutive health check failures required before considering a FortiGate-VM instance unhealthy.

Minimum 3.

(Optional) Predefined Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) to route traffic to web service in the private subnets. You can optionally use your own one or decide to not need one.

(Optional) Destination path for health checks. This path must begin with a forward slash (/) and can be at most 1024 characters in length.

Length of time (in seconds) that a FortiGate-VM instance waits between sending heartbeat requests to the Autoscale handler. Minimum is 30. Maximum is 90.

Number of consecutively lost heartbeats. When the Heartbeat loss count has been reached, the FortiGate-VM is deemed unhealthy and failover activities will commence.

Maximum amount of time (in seconds) allowed for network latency of the FortiGate-VM heartbeat arriving at the FortiGate Autoscale handler. Minimum is 0.

The email address (AWS SNS Topic subscriber) to receive Autoscale notifications. If provided, the template can only accept one email address. An email will be sent to the address to confirm the subscription.

Set to yes to terminate any VM that is deemed unhealthy by FortiGate Autoscale.

Set to no if you do not want to incorporate FortiAnalyzer into FortiGate Autoscale to use extended features that include storing logs into FortiAnalyzer.

FortiAnalyzer version supported by FortiGate Autoscale.

Requires a subscription to the "Fortinet FortiAnalyzer Centralized Logging/Reporting (10 managed devices)" AMI.

Instance type to launch as FortiAnalyzer on-demand instances. There are compute-optimized instances, such as m4 and c4, available with different vCPU sizes and bandwidths. For more information about instance types, see Instance Types.

Name of the secondary administrator-level account in the FortiAnalyzer, which FortiGate Autoscale uses to connect to the FortiAnalyzer to authorize any FortiGate device in the Auto Scaling group. To conform to the FortiAnalyzer naming policy, the user name can only contain numbers, lowercase letters, uppercase letters, and hyphens. It cannot start or end with a hyphen (-).

Password for the "Autoscale admin user name." The password must conform to the FortiAnalyzer password policy and have a minimum length of 8 and a maximum length of 128. If you need to enable KMS encryption, refer to the documentation.

Set to yes to use a custom S3 location for custom assets such as licenses and customized configsets.

Name of the S3 bucket that contains your custom assets. Required if 'Use custom asset location' is set to yes. Can only contain numbers, lowercase letters, uppercase letters, and hyphens (-). It cannot start or end with a hyphen (-).

Name of the S3 bucket (created in step 4 of Obtaining the deployment package) that contains the FortiGate Autoscale deployment package. Can only contain numbers, lowercase letters, uppercase letters, and hyphens (-). It cannot start or end with a hyphen (-).