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Protect AWS workloads, VDIs, and user traffic with AI/ML-powered virtual firewall from Palo Alto Networks. This listing includes VM-Series virtual firewall, Palo Alto Networks flagship - Advanced Threat Prevention security service and 24x7 premium technical support
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This offering includes a free, 15-day trial. Go beyond base layer 3, 4 protection with industry leading firewall in the cloud-native form factor that seamlessly integrates and scales with your AWS environment.
02/01/24 UPDATE - This listing now includes Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention cloud-delivered Security Service. ATP increases firewalls efficacy against zero day and other resilient threats (requires PAN-OS versions 10.2.8, 11.0.4, 11.1.2 or later).
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.
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.
Threat coverage - keep your workloads safe from threats with industry-leading traffic inspection.
This listing also includes Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention service which safeguards 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.
Looking for higher levels of security? Try the following PAYG listing to provide higher level of security to your AWS infrastructure:
VM-Series Next-Generation Virtual Firewall w/ Advanced Security Subs (PAYG). See 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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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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OtherLinux PAN-OS 10.2.14
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Try this product free for 15 days according to the free trial terms set by the vendor. Usage-based pricing is in effect for usage beyond the free trial terms. Your free trial gets automatically converted to a paid subscription when the trial ends, but may be canceled any time before that.
Pricing is based on actual usage, with charges varying according to how much you consume. Subscriptions have no end date and may be canceled any time. Alternatively, you can pay upfront for a contract, which typically covers your anticipated usage for the contract duration. Any usage beyond contract will incur additional usage-based costs.
Additional AWS infrastructure costs may apply. Use the AWS Pricing Calculator to estimate your infrastructure costs.
Dimension | Cost/hour |
|---|---|
c5n.xlarge Recommended | $1.08 |
m4.large | $0.90 |
c6a.2xlarge | $1.71 |
m5.large | $0.90 |
m6in.2xlarge | $1.71 |
c6a.4xlarge | $3.42 |
m6in.4xlarge | $3.42 |
m4.4xlarge | $3.42 |
m5.4xlarge | $3.42 |
m5n.large | $0.90 |
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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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https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/aws
For post-sales support, you can use the following options: Call us at 1 (866) 898-9087 Open a case by following the steps here:
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Palo Alto Usage Review
Reviewed on May 02, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
my best pick for VM-Series is In line Machine leaning or MI powered security to protect our cloud infrastructure from cyber attacks, especially zero day attacks which are highly dangerous
What do you dislike about the product?
to be honest, Personally, I don't find anything to dislike about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall. But, price is often came up as a topic of discussion in meeting with management.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am using it to monitor ingress and egress traffic, and also using security policies to protect out cloud infrastructure. we are leveraging panorama management solution to deploy VMs and it is also helping us in managing ngfs.
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Complex and slow but works fine
Reviewed on May 02, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It does what most firewall do so there is no such area that I can see it does it the best. I guess it works and provide a lot of details. it has all the tools that order vendor has
What do you dislike about the product?
Slow device in general. It takes too long to push a simple policy. Also, takes longer to stag a new device vs fortinet. The GUI is old and need to be update. Integrate AI and cloud solutions.Troubleshooting via CLI can be easier, especially in real-time. Please refer to Fortinet CLI troubleshooting commands
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
. It does the key features such as application and threat protection. We use tagging to control policies but I am not sure what was the driving motivate behind choosing Palo over other vendors.
sagnik r.
yes, off course. its very good, reliable
Reviewed on Apr 29, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
1) It works seamlessly with AWS, Azure and google cloud and others
2)It has security features like App-ID, User-ID and Threat preventions on appliances.
2)It has security features like App-ID, User-ID and Threat preventions on appliances.
What do you dislike about the product?
1) Too much resource intensive on CPU and memory in cloud environments.
2) It needs deep expertise as in training to understand it's full value which can be understood.
2) It needs deep expertise as in training to understand it's full value which can be understood.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1) It's slow and security has to be done manually
2) There is almost no or very less visibility and control in the cloud
3) It's not reliable with security policies across all environments
2) There is almost no or very less visibility and control in the cloud
3) It's not reliable with security policies across all environments
Akshat G.
Robust Cloud Firewall with Granular Control and Strong Security Features
Reviewed on Apr 26, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall is a fantastic choice for organizations that need enterprise-grade security in virtualized and cloud environments. It applies features like application-aware traffic management, threat protection, and packet analysis with packet flexibility on AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes environments.
One of its best features is offering consistent security policies for multi-cloud and hybrid deployments. The firewall is highly scalable, is automatable with tools like Terraform, and plays nicely in CI/CD pipelines. Management through Panorama also simplifies operations by providing centralized management over multiple instances.
The built-in WildFire service offers a secondary layer of real-time threat intelligence, helping to defend against new and emerging threats in a timely fashion.
One of its best features is offering consistent security policies for multi-cloud and hybrid deployments. The firewall is highly scalable, is automatable with tools like Terraform, and plays nicely in CI/CD pipelines. Management through Panorama also simplifies operations by providing centralized management over multiple instances.
The built-in WildFire service offers a secondary layer of real-time threat intelligence, helping to defend against new and emerging threats in a timely fashion.
What do you dislike about the product?
While the Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall is excellent at security, it is not without its drawbacks. The most significant drawback is cost — licensing, subscription, and cloud resource use can easily become expensive, especially at scale. Setup is also extremely complex and usually requires specialist knowledge, so the learning curve is steep for beginners. Additionally, the firewall can be resource-intensive, consuming heavy CPU and memory, and that increases the operating cost in cloud environments. Last, Palo Alto's licensing options and feature sets are difficult to understand, making the onboarding more complicated.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall is meeting the critical need to protect cloud and hybrid environments as securely as it is conventionally possible in on-premises data centers. It is confronting challenges like detecting advanced threats, fine-grained traffic control, application visibility, and consistent policy enforcement across multiple cloud platforms. With deep packet inspection, real-time threat intelligence, and automation tool integrations like Terraform, it enables us to securely migrate workloads into the cloud without relaxing security. This has enabled us to accomplish risk reduction, compliance enhancement, and centralized visibility and management for all our network infrastructure irrespective of where the workloads are directed.
Vlad V.
Palo Alto's reliability
Reviewed on Apr 24, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Through my career I've worked with several firewall providers, primarily Sophos what I love about Palo Alto compared to the others is that the support base for this firewall is extremely detailed. Also many advanced features, exactly what you would need in the enterprise.
What do you dislike about the product?
Steep learning curve this is what was the biggest challenge and what I've disliked the most about it. Never firewalls have better UI but it's still pretty rough to switch vendors
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Well as any firewall the primary purpose is of course network protection. We have several unique Inbound/outbound rules and policy's requirements that this firewall is meeting so security and management.