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FortiGate VMs on AWS Graviton3 offers 176% improved NGFW throughput

Cloud computing is transforming the way businesses operate, innovate, and compete. However, cloud security remains a top concern for many organizations, especially in today’s ear of AI, as cyberattacks become more sophisticated and frequent. How can you protect your cloud workloads and assets from threats and ensure compliance with regulations and policies without taking a hit on the performance or breaking the bank?

Arm Neoverse-based processors are designed to deliver high performance, scalability, and efficiency for a wide range of workloads, from edge devices to supercomputers. Arm also offers advanced security features, such as memory protection, cryptography, and confidential computing, to help safeguard your data and code in the cloud.

But security is not only about the physical processors and hardware. You also need a robust network security layer to prevent unauthorized access, detect and block malicious traffic, and enforce granular policies. That’s where next generation firewall (NGFW) solutions come in. NGFWs provide a more sophisticated analysis of data, going beyond packet inspection, analyzing data up to the application layer to detect threats that would otherwise go unnoticed.  Distributed denial of service protection, intrusion detection & prevention, and deep packet inspection are now the norm in NGFWs. And as AI technology plays an increasing role in your solutions, you can expect AI-powered threat intelligence protecting you against emerging threats real-time and successfully mitigating Zero-Day attacks.  

All this extra complexity demands a streamlined network architecture that can keep up with the increasing demand for bandwidth.   Check out the solution brief that describes the advantages of running Fortinet: FortiGate VM NGFW on Arm Neoverse-powered AWS Graviton3 EC2 instances to offer unparalleled performance, lower latency and cost-effectiveness:

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This work leverages key features which contribute to the overall performance of the Arm Neoverse V1 cores that powers the AWS Graviton3 processors

• New Triple-XOR loop-unrolling instructions that boost bulk crypto processing for algorithms like AES-GCM. This helps FortiGate IPsec on AWS Graviton3 perform 50% better than comparable x86 instances. Further details available at this blog.
• Faster DDR5 memory, storage and Arm-powered fifth-generation AWS Nitro DPUs on AWS EC2 C7gn instances lead to better performance for L4-L7 packet-processing applications like HTTPS network proxies. Further details available at this blog.

Ready to secure your cloud infrastructure? Try the Fortinet FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall available now on AWS Marketplace.