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Expand your coverage against command and control, web-based, file-based, DNS protocol, and other threats with industries most advanced cloud delivered security services that protect your AWS workloads, VDIs and user traffic with AI/ML-powered VM-Series virtual firewalls from Palo Alto Networks. This listing includes 24x7 Premium Support.
Overview
This offering includes a free, 15-day trial. Go beyond base layer 3, 4 protection with industry leading firewall and a comprehensive suite of security services in a cloud-native form factor that seamlessly integrate and scale with your AWS environment.
02/01 UPDATE - This listing now includes Palo Alto Networks Advanced cloud-delivered Security Services. These services increase firewall efficacy against zero day and other resilient threats (requires PAN-OS versions 10.2.8, 11.0.4, 11.1.2 or later).
Threat coverage - keep your workloads safe from exploits, malware, command & control attempts, web-based threats, DNS-layer attacks, file-based threats and malware piggybacking on mobile users traffic with industry-leading traffic inspection. The following security services that are available with this product listing:
Note: To activate below services, follow the steps in https://shorturl.at/mnsJ1 to register your firewall
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Advanced Threat Prevention - safeguard your network from known and zero day threats, such as exploits, malware, spyware, and command and control attacks, with market-leading, researcher-grade signatures and ML inspection engine that do not compromise performance.
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Advanced URL Filtering - defend your network from highly evasive phishing, ransomware and other web-based attacks. Palo Alto Networks inline machine learning-based web security engine enables real-time detection of previously unseen threats to prevent patient zero. Create granular policy controls that dynamically update as new malicious URLs are discovered.
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Advanced WildFire - identify file-based threats through inline static and dynamic analysis in the cloud. Palo Alto Networks proprietary hypervisor enables detection of sophisticated sandbox-resistant malware, extending your coverage to these previously unseen threats. Advanced Wildfire adds real-time threat signature updates for your Advanced Threat Prevention service.
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DNS Security - extend your threat coverage by detecting and preventing sophisticated DNS-layer network attacks and data exfiltration.
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Global Protect - secure your infrastructure from malware and threats that can piggyback on traffic from mobile users.
Simplified policy management - means your policies adapt to changes in your AWS infrastructure while keeping your resources protected in a consistent manner without manual intervention by the FW admin.
Next-Gen Security - protect business critical data with VM-Series virtual firewalls that give you complete application layer-7 visibility and control of your traffic in your AWS environment.
Easy deployment - get started with a few clicks and deploy additional firewalls through the familiar EC2 instance creation flow.
Looking for a lighter version with reduced costs? Try our VM-Series Next-Gen Virtual Firewall w/Advanced Threat Prevention (PAYG). See the link below.
Highlights
- Best-in-class public cloud network security solution powered by AI/ML and latest threat research protects your workloads against day zero and known threats with application layer 7 visibility.
- Integrations with Gateway Load Balancer, AWS Auto Scaling, and Transit VPC with AWS Transit Gateway allow you to protect traffic across many types of dynamic and large scale deployments.
- Policy definitions dynamically apply to your cloud assets based on AWS tags, Application IDs, User IDs, geographies or zones.
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OtherLinux PAN-OS 11.1.6-h7
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c5n.xlarge Recommended | $1.71 |
c5d.large | $1.35 |
c6in.2xlarge | $2.43 |
c6i.4xlarge | $4.32 |
c5d.xlarge | $1.71 |
c5.xlarge | $1.71 |
c4.8xlarge | $4.32 |
c6i.2xlarge | $2.43 |
c5d.4xlarge | $4.32 |
c6i.xlarge | $1.71 |
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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Usage instructions
See documentation for detailed steps to set admin password before using the web interface of VM-Series. Once the instance is running, connect to it using a SSH client with the private key file used to launch the instance. For example: ssh -i <privatekey.pem> admin@<EIP or private IP of eth0> Then use the PAN-OS CLI commands "configure", "set mgt-config users admin password" and "commit" commands to set the password.
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Threat Prevention
Advanced machine learning-powered inspection engine that detects known and zero-day threats including exploits, malware, spyware, and command and control attacks
Web Security
Inline machine learning-based web security engine for real-time detection of phishing, ransomware, and evasive web-based attacks
File Analysis
Proprietary cloud-based hypervisor for static and dynamic file-based threat detection using advanced sandbox analysis techniques
Protocol Layer Security
Comprehensive security coverage across network layers including DNS-layer attack prevention and network data exfiltration detection
Traffic Visibility
Complete application layer-7 traffic inspection and control with dynamic policy management based on AWS tags, application IDs, and user contexts
Network Virtualization
Secure virtual private network (VPN) gateway for connecting remote sites and branch offices
Advanced Threat Protection
Dynamic security controls with application layer exfiltration security and advanced evasion techniques (AETs) identification
Intrusion Prevention
Integrated advanced Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) with capability to stop Advanced Evasion Techniques
Security Policy Management
Centralized policy configuration with global update capabilities across network infrastructure
Malware Detection
Sandboxing technology for identifying zero-day attacks and advanced malware
Network Traffic Inspection
Inspects traffic entering and exiting private subnets in VPC ("North-South") and between VPCs ("East-West")
Advanced Threat Prevention
Provides multi-layered security capabilities including firewall, IPS, threat emulation, and threat extraction with advanced catch rates
Cloud Infrastructure Integration
Supports infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and Ansible, dynamically adapts security policies based on cloud metadata
Security Protocol Coverage
Comprehensive security features including Data Loss Prevention, application control, IPsec VPN, URL filtering, antivirus, and anti-Bot protection
Cloud Service Compatibility
Integrates with AWS services including Gateway Load Balancer, AWS Security Hub, VPC Ingress Routing, AWS Traffic Mirroring, and AWS Transit Gateway
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Customer reviews
4.4
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4 AWS reviews
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105 external reviews
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Insurance
Amazing virtual firewall
Reviewed on Jun 25, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
One of the best to provide security to cloud infrastructures. Posses the ability to inspect the traffic in-depth and analyze before actually processing to the next hop.
What do you dislike about the product?
It’s that it’s virtual. Completely dependent on the physical hardware if it’s hosting multiple vm firewalls. Failure to one physical hardware can lead to multiple vms failure
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As said we use the firewall for in depth inspection of the incoming traffic coming to the corporate network and minimize the risks by providing security to the private and hybrid cloud infrastructures
Retail
Solid Virtual Firewall with Enterprise-Grade Security
Reviewed on Jun 14, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
One of the things that really impressed me about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is how well they’ve integrated machine learning directly into the firewall. It’s not just a buzzword here you can actually see it working.
What do you dislike about the product?
While the security capabilities are excellent, the initial learning curve with Palo Alto VM-Series can be pretty steep, especially if you're new to their platform or coming from more traditional firewall vendors.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The biggest problem VM-Series is solving for us is securing complex, distributed cloud environments without sacrificing visibility or control. We run workloads across multiple clouds and on-prem, and having a consistent firewall and security policy across all those platforms is a huge win. VM-Series gives us that single security layer no matter where our applications live.
Mitul P.
Palo Alto fIrewall Security product's
Reviewed on Jun 11, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to deploy where we can save cost of hardware and also managed application security and network traffic in highly secure manner. It is robust and solid products in term security.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is nothing much about firewall products personally to me but need to go with phase by phase when comes to deploying and managing. As new beginner need to learn many things in order to deploy this products
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is used like managing layer 7 security. Like filtering out Http & https traffic from external clients when accessing internal resources. I deployed in DMZ side and it is very helpful to me when managing network traffic restrictied to dmz which avoid to harm our internal network traiffx when it comes from outside network.
Computer & Network Security
Virtualized Security Excellence if you can afford it
Reviewed on May 07, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I believe what I like the best about these FWs is their Application level visibility. The App-ID tech used in the Firewalls allows us in our environment to control applications on a granular level allowing improved security.
Also the fact they're fairly easy to deploy and implement in any environment our customers have such as VMware, AWS, Azure cloud etc. This helps with the ease of integration within the organizations using multiple cloud solutions.
Also the fact they're fairly easy to deploy and implement in any environment our customers have such as VMware, AWS, Azure cloud etc. This helps with the ease of integration within the organizations using multiple cloud solutions.
What do you dislike about the product?
One con would be that they can have some complex initial configuration and may require special expertise within the customer support environment, which can discourage may discourage smaller organizations from using these as they have slightly high licensing and maintenance costs compared to other Virtual FW solutions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
They help with the scalability of our setups as they can be used with multiple cloud environments with no limitations such as AWS, Azure, GCP or even VMware
Naveed A.
Good alternative for a hardware firewall
Reviewed on May 05, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like it has almost the same features as the hardware firewall. It's easy to deploy on any cloud solution like azure,aws. User based policies in VM is a great next step after application segmentation.
Palo Alto support is always great to deal with.
Palo Alto support is always great to deal with.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost to have and maintain a Palo Alto firewall is always a challenge. It's the same with the VM series as well, being an expensive product.
Reporting seems to be limited as compared to physical firewall. VM Palo Alto doesn't provide hardware acceleration as well.
Reporting seems to be limited as compared to physical firewall. VM Palo Alto doesn't provide hardware acceleration as well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have deployed Palo Alto VM firewall in our vsphere switch which is for protecting our production servers. We have different types of servers deployed on virtualized switch, all the traffic to servers passes through Palo Alto vm. Different application control and web profiles have been setup as per server on VM.
VM is easy to upgrade and keep a check on licenses accordingly. Panorama provides a complete landscape of security which helps us in setting up policies.
VM is easy to upgrade and keep a check on licenses accordingly. Panorama provides a complete landscape of security which helps us in setting up policies.