You can now link your Cloud NGFW tenant with multiple Panorama appliances to meet your governance model, regional presence, and data residency requirements. From then on, you can configure and manage your Cloud NGFW resource with one of the linked Panorama. To see how to add Panorama to Cloud NGFW for AWS, see this documentation.

Premium support is now included with Cloud NGFW for AWS at no additional charge. Palo Alto Networks Premium Support enhances in-house resources with technical experts available to support your Palo Alto Networks security infrastructure. This support level provides access to Security Assurance to assist when security incidents require access to security experts. For more information, see Premium Support.

You can now use Cortex Data Lake (CDL) to perform Explore/Log Viewer queries to view logs generated by a specific Cloud NGFW for AWS resource. Cortex Data Lake also displays key metrics for your Cloud NGFWs in a dedicated

Cloud NGFW for Cortex Data Lake Inventory Page

to better monitor ingestion rate, storage usage, and connection status. When used with Cloud NGFW for AWS, Cortex Data Lake now automatically scales along with the Cloud NGFW for AWS resources. As traffic throughput increases on these Cloud NGFW resources, so does your available CDL storage so that you don't need to worry about making manual adjustments to Cortex Data Lake storage to save your log data.

This release introduces the Usage Explorer in the Cloud NGFW for AWS console. The Usage Explorer dashboard allows you to view Cloud NGFW consumption and how it correlates with credits associated with the tenant.

Cloud NGFW for AWS changes the pricing model to provide more flexibility for aggregate Cloud NGFW tenant usage based on the deployment hours of all NGFWs, how much traffic they secured, and how many security features they use every hour. See the Pricing page for more information.