You can now link multiple Panorama appliances along with their Cortex Data Lake instance to your Cloud NGFW tenant. You can then associate a tenant's NGFW resource with one of these links for policy and log management. For more information, see Use Multiple Panoramas with your Cloud NGFW Tenant.

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. For more information, see Cloud NGFW for AWS Usage Explorer.

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.

In the Panorama

Monitor

tab you can now filter to view the log of an individual Cloud Device Group, or display logs and activity for all Cloud Device Groups. See View Cloud NGFW Logs and Activity for more detailed information.

As you deploy or terminate AWS assets (such as EC2 instances) in the AWS public cloud, you can automatically update security policy on your Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW resources so that you can secure traffic to these AWS assets. See tag based policies for more information.

You can now unlink the Panorama appliance from a Cloud NGFW resource automatically without opening a support ticket. See Unlink the Cloud NGFW from Palo Alto Networks Management for more information.

You can now integrate a Cloud NGFW for AWS tenant with Palo Alto Networks appliance to manage a shared set of security rules centrally on Cloud NGFW resources alongside your physical and virtual firewall appliances.

af-south-1 (Cape Town)