Sold by: Palo Alto Networks
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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
Deployed on AWS
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Additional AWS infrastructure costs may apply. Use the AWS Pricing Calculator to estimate your infrastructure costs.
Dimension | Cost/hour |
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c5n.xlarge Recommended | $1.62 |
c5d.2xlarge | $2.25 |
c6in.xlarge | $1.62 |
c5.2xlarge | $2.25 |
c4.2xlarge | $2.25 |
c5d.4xlarge | $4.05 |
c6i.xlarge | $1.62 |
m6in.8xlarge | $4.05 |
m6in.large | $1.26 |
c5.4xlarge | $4.05 |
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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.
Support
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To help you get started with your deployment such as how-to videos, deployment guides and reference architectures, please visit:
https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/aws
For post-sales support, you can use the following options: Call us at 1 (866) 898-9087
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Customer reviews
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
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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.
Dustin L.
PA Virtual Firewall Review
Reviewed on May 05, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use & implementation of Palo Alto products is straight forward and they make it easy for even first time administrators to learn and adapt the technology to clients' needs. Customer support for their products is excellent, also very easy to integrate.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have found nothing that I dislike about this product, other than actually having to have hands on equipment to deploy. This can cause issues when shipping a device to a client in a different location as it can be tricky to walk an end user through setup.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is helping us to keep all of our switches and other networking gear secure by being the front line defense against attacks. This is benefiting our organization because it keeps the house from burning down and keeps our clients secure in a SOC II Type 2 environment.
Information Technology and Services
Very secure snd trustworthy
Reviewed on May 03, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Best thing about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall is its deep integration with major cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP, which makes deployment very easy. I also like the fact it delivers consistent security policies across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Furthermore, the App-ID and Threat Prevention features provide granular control and proactive defense against advanced threats.
What do you dislike about the product?
One downside of the Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall is that its user interface can be a bit hard to navigate, especially for new users. The configuration process is not as intuitive
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The VM-Series Firewall secures our cloud workloads by blocking threats and enforcing consistent policies. It improves our security and helps maintain compliance across environments.
Logistics and Supply Chain
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.