Region support

BYOL and on-demand deployments support the following regions. See Order types.

Instance support may vary depending on the regions.

For details about regions, see Regions and Availability Zones.

Region name	Region code
US East (N. Virginia)	us-east-1
US East (Ohio)	us-east-2
US West (N. California)	us-west-1
US West (Oregon)	us-west-2
Africa (Cape Town)	af-south-1
Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)	ap-east-1
Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	ap-south-1
Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)	ap-south-2
Asia Pacific (Singapore)	ap-southeast-1
Asia Pacific (Sydney)	ap-southeast-2
Asia Pacific (Jakarta)	ap-southeast-3
Asia Pacific (Melbourne)	ap-southeast-4
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	ap-northeast-1
Asia Pacific (Seoul)	ap-northeast-2
Asia Pacific (Osaka)	ap-northeast-3
Canada (Central)	ca-central-1
EU (Frankfurt)	eu-central-1
EU (Zurich)	eu-central-2
EU (Ireland)	eu-west-1
EU (London)	eu-west-2
EU (Paris)	eu-west-3
EU (Stockholm)	eu-north-1
EU (Milan)	eu-south-1
EU (Spain)	eu-south-2
Middle East (Bahrain)	me-south-1
Middle East (UAE)	me-central-1
South America (São Paulo)	sa-east-1
AWS GovCloud (US-East)	us-gov-east-1
AWS GovCloud (US-West)	us-gov-west-1

FortiOS 7.4.1 and later versions also support the following local zones with instance types c5d.2xlarge, c5d.4xlarge, and c5d.12xlarge:

Local zone name	Local zone code
US East (Atlanta)	us-east-1-atl-1a
US East (Boston)	us-east-1-bos-1a
US East (Chicago)	us-east-1-chi-1a
US West (Denver)	us-west-2-den-1a
US West (Las Vegas)	us-west-2-las-1a
US West (Los Angeles)	us-west-2-lax-1a

AWS China is supported but does not appear with these regions when you log into the AWS portal. To use AWS resources on AWS China, you must have an AWS China account separate from your global AWS account.

FortiGate-VM for AWS China only supports the bring your own license model. To activate it, you must obtain a license. See Deploying on AWS China.