Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global leader in network security focusing on the integration of network and security, recently announced the FortiGate-VM, the FortiGate next-generation firewall (NGFW) virtual machine dedicated to instances of Graviton processors (ARM processors developed by Amazon Cloud Technology). The version is officially launched in Amazon Cloud Technology China. Deploying FortiGate-VM on Amazon Cloud Technology's Graviton-based instances, users can save up to 20% of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) service expenditures, streamline cloud investment, and provide industry-leading support for Amazon Cloud Technology's business-critical cloud workloads. Leading security protection.
According to TrendForce data forecast, with the gradual increase in the adoption of cloud data centers, it is expected that by 2025, the penetration rate of ARM architecture in the data center server market will double to 22%. This also means that ARM is becoming an important force in the server market. The security of the rapidly growing and emerging ARM cloud server cannot be ignored. In 2022, FortiGate-VM will become an "all-round security guard" for overseas EC2 instances equipped with Amazon Cloud Technology's Graviton processor. This also marks that FortiGate-VM has fully supported the global mainstream cloud computing server infrastructure. This time, FortiGate-VM has further completed its support for Amazon Cloud Technology China. While improving the security of corresponding instances, it also brings greater security confidence to more cloud users who will soon choose Graviton processor EC2 instances.
Fortinet-VM escorts any cloud workload
FortiGate-VM, which supports ARM processor cloud instances, also supports deployment in virtualized private clouds/data centers, supports mainstream types and cloud workloads of any scale, and can be extended to other mainstream cloud provider platforms. FortiGate-VM combines secure VPN/SD-WAN connectivity with powerful intrusion prevention systems (IPS), malware detection and prevention, and advanced security services such as continuous threat intelligence from FortiGuard Lab (Fortinet's global threat intelligence response and research team) security services. Threat protection solutions are fully integrated to effectively improve security detection and protection capabilities.
At the same time, with a unified management and control platform, FortiGate-VM realizes comprehensive network automation and consistent visibility across multi-cloud environments, and achieves consistent security and network services through the general-purpose operating system FortiOS, helping users simplify security operations, achieve centralized management, and Ensure seamless interoperability between applications deployed in the data center and cloud, enabling FortiGate-VM users to enable consistent security policies and gain deep visibility across deployments.
The support for Amazon Cloud China's Graviton-based instances reaffirms Fortinet's unwavering commitment to alleviating users' current security and network convergence challenges. At the same time, Fortinet products and solutions can quickly land and expand on Amazon Cloud Technology and other mainstream cloud platforms, thanks to the support of many Fortinet Fabric-Ready ecosystem partners and rich integrated security solutions. As one of more than 300 Fabric-Ready Technology Alliance partners, Amazon Cloud Technology and Fortinet solutions have successfully implemented more than 500 native integrations, which can better protect users' heterogeneous network environments.
FortiGate-VM, which supports Graviton-based EC2 instances, is now available on the global Amazon Cloud Technology Marketplace, including the Chinese market, with on-demand pricing based on instance types.