About FortiSandbox VM for AWS

Introduction

Fortinet’s FortiSandbox for AWS enables organizations to defend against advanced threats in the cloud. It works with network, email, endpoint, and other security measures, or as an extension of on-premises security architecture to leverage scale with complete control.

FortiSandbox is available on the AWS Marketplace.

You can install FortiSandbox on AWS as a standalone zero-day threat prevention or you can configure it to work with your existing FortiGate, FortiMail, or FortiWeb AWS instances to identify malicious and suspicious files, ransomware, and network threats.

You can create custom VMs using pre-configured VMs, your own ISO image, or Red Hat VMs on VirtualBox.For more information, contact Fortinet Customer Service & Support.

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License Type: BYOL and PAYG

FortiSandbox AWS supports two license types: BYOL and PAYG. With BYOL, you purchase the firmware license from Fortinet and upload it to the unit manually; with PAYG, you do not need to bring any pre-existing licenses. Instead, you pay for both the AWS infrastructure and the software licenses as part of the service.

Guest VM Running Mode (Nested and Non-Nested)

Guest VM can run in two modes on FortiSandbox AWS : Nested and non-nested. A Nested AWS FortiSandbox will run guest VMs inside the appliance allowing for more control on those VMs. Nested mode also supports more types of VMs, including Default VM, Optional VM, Customized VM and Cloud VM. Non-Nested mode runs VMs outside the appliance. Non-nested mode only supports Customized VM and Cloud VM.

Guest VM Running modes Nested and Non-Nested modes are supported in both BYOL and PAYG deployments. FortiSandbox also supports switching between Non-Nested and Nested mode when needed.