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Instance type support

FortiGate-VM supports the following instance types on AWS. Supported instances in the AWS marketplace listing may change without notice and vary between bring your own license (BYOL) and on-demand models. See Order types. C3 and M-series instances do not appear as recommended instances.

When you run FortiGate-native active-passive high availability, each FortiGate-VM instance requires four network interfaces (port 1 to port 4). For details, see Deploying FortiGate-VM active-passive HA on AWS within one zone.

For up-to-date information on each instance type, see the following links:

AWS Graviton instance type:

Instance category

Instance type

vCPU

Max NIC (enabled by AWS)

FortiGate minimum order (BYOL) to consume all instance CPU

General purpose

t2.small

1

2

FG-VM01 or FG-VM01v

Compute optimized

c4.large

2

3

FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v

c4.xlarge

4

4

FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v

c4.2xlarge

8

4

FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v

c4.4xlarge

16

8

FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v

c4.8xlarge

36

8

FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv

c5.large

2

3

FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v

c5.xlarge

4

4

FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v

c5.2xlarge

8

4

FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v

c5.4xlarge

16

8

FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v

c5.9xlarge

36

8

FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv

c5.18xlarge

72

15

c5d.large 2

3

FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v

c5d.xlarge 4

4

FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v

c5d.2xlarge 8

4

FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v

c5d.4xlarge 16

8

FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v

c5d.9xlarge 36

8

FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv

c5d.18xlarge 72

15

c5n.large 2 3 FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v
c5n.xlarge 4 4 FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v
c5n.2xlarge 8 4 FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v
c5n.4xlarge 16 8 FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v
c5n.9xlarge 36 8 FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv
c5n.18xlarge 72 15

c6i.large

2

3

FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v

c6i.xlarge (recommended by default)

4

4

FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v

c6i.2xlarge

8

4

FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v

c6i.4xlarge

16

8

FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v

c6i.8xlarge

32

8

FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv

c6i.16xlarge

64

15

c6i.24xlarge

96

15

c6g.large 2 3 FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v
c6g.xlarge 4 4 FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v
c6g.2xlarge 8 4 FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v
c6g.4xlarge 16 8 FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v
c6g.8xlarge 32 8 FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv
c6g.16xlarge 64 15 FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv

c7g.large

2 3 FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v

c7g.xlarge

4 4 FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v

c7g.2xlarge

8 4 FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v

c7g.4xlarge

16 8 FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v

c7g.8xlarge

32 8 FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv

c6gn.large

2 3 FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v

c6gn.xlarge (recommended by default)

4 4 FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v

c6gn.2xlarge

8 4 FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v

c6gn.4xlarge

16 8 FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v

c6gn.8xlarge

32 8 FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv

You can apply a smaller FortiGate-VM license if you are OK with consuming less CPU than is present on your instance. See Models.

For more information about checking and enabling ENA support on AWS instances, see Enable enhanced networking with the Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) on Linux instances.

FortiOS supports hot-adding vCPU and RAM. However, AWS may not support this. See Requirements for changing the instance type.

Instance type support

FortiGate-VM supports the following instance types on AWS. Supported instances in the AWS marketplace listing may change without notice and vary between bring your own license (BYOL) and on-demand models. See Order types. C3 and M-series instances do not appear as recommended instances.

When you run FortiGate-native active-passive high availability, each FortiGate-VM instance requires four network interfaces (port 1 to port 4). For details, see Deploying FortiGate-VM active-passive HA on AWS within one zone.

For up-to-date information on each instance type, see the following links:

AWS Graviton instance type:

Instance category

Instance type

vCPU

Max NIC (enabled by AWS)

FortiGate minimum order (BYOL) to consume all instance CPU

General purpose

t2.small

1

2

FG-VM01 or FG-VM01v

Compute optimized

c4.large

2

3

FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v

c4.xlarge

4

4

FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v

c4.2xlarge

8

4

FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v

c4.4xlarge

16

8

FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v

c4.8xlarge

36

8

FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv

c5.large

2

3

FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v

c5.xlarge

4

4

FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v

c5.2xlarge

8

4

FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v

c5.4xlarge

16

8

FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v

c5.9xlarge

36

8

FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv

c5.18xlarge

72

15

c5d.large 2

3

FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v

c5d.xlarge 4

4

FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v

c5d.2xlarge 8

4

FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v

c5d.4xlarge 16

8

FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v

c5d.9xlarge 36

8

FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv

c5d.18xlarge 72

15

c5n.large 2 3 FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v
c5n.xlarge 4 4 FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v
c5n.2xlarge 8 4 FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v
c5n.4xlarge 16 8 FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v
c5n.9xlarge 36 8 FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv
c5n.18xlarge 72 15

c6i.large

2

3

FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v

c6i.xlarge (recommended by default)

4

4

FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v

c6i.2xlarge

8

4

FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v

c6i.4xlarge

16

8

FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v

c6i.8xlarge

32

8

FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv

c6i.16xlarge

64

15

c6i.24xlarge

96

15

c6g.large 2 3 FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v
c6g.xlarge 4 4 FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v
c6g.2xlarge 8 4 FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v
c6g.4xlarge 16 8 FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v
c6g.8xlarge 32 8 FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv
c6g.16xlarge 64 15 FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv

c7g.large

2 3 FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v

c7g.xlarge

4 4 FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v

c7g.2xlarge

8 4 FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v

c7g.4xlarge

16 8 FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v

c7g.8xlarge

32 8 FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv

c6gn.large

2 3 FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v

c6gn.xlarge (recommended by default)

4 4 FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v

c6gn.2xlarge

8 4 FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v

c6gn.4xlarge

16 8 FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v

c6gn.8xlarge

32 8 FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv

You can apply a smaller FortiGate-VM license if you are OK with consuming less CPU than is present on your instance. See Models.

For more information about checking and enabling ENA support on AWS instances, see Enable enhanced networking with the Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) on Linux instances.

FortiOS supports hot-adding vCPU and RAM. However, AWS may not support this. See Requirements for changing the instance type.