Cloud NGFW for AWS Pricing
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Cloud NGFW for AWS

Cloud NGFW for AWS Pricing

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Cloud NGFW for AWS Pricing

Cloud NGFW pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pricing.
Where Can I Use This?What Do I Need?
  • Cloud NGFW for AWS
  • Cloud NGFW subscription
  • Palo Alto Networks Customer Support Account (CSP)
  • AWS Marketplace account
  • User role (either tenant or administrator)
Cloud NGFW is available as a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) subscription in the AWS Marketplace. With this model, you pay only for what you use each month, with all charges consolidated on the invoice you receive from AWS. You can also enjoy the AWS Marketplace benefits such as consolidated billing Amazon Web Services Enterprise Discount Program (EDP).
You pay an hourly rate for each Cloud NGFW resource. You also pay for the amount of traffic, billed by the gigabyte, processed by the NGFW resource. Additionally, you pay an hourly rate and for the amount of traffic processed by your Cloud NGFW resource when you configure security services add-ons (such as Threat Prevention, Advanced URL Filtering, DNS Security, or WildFire) or the centralized management add-on (Panorama management). The rate charged for the traffic also depends on the aggregate traffic processed by all NGFWs in the tenant during the month (referred to as tiered traffic pricing).
Credit Pricing Model
You can procure and associate Cloud NGFW for AWS Credits to your tenant by paying an upfront cost for a long-term contract of one, two, or three years. You purchase these credits while taking advantage of AWS Marketplace benefits such as consolidated billing, AWS EDP, and automated or configurable renewals. Cloud NGFW credits allow you to consume Cloud NGFW resources in your tenant at a lower cost up to a specific capacity until your contract expires. See Subscribe to Cloud NGFW for AWS to learn how to add contract credits.
If your average consumption per month exceeds the purchased credits, overages are charged at PAYG rates.
If you add Cloud NGFW credits during a free-trial period, your contract starts immediately and overrides the free trial.
Use the Cloud NGFW for AWS pricing estimator to help you determine AWS pricing for your Cloud NGFW tenant.
Metering and Billing
Cloud NGFW consumption translates to pay-as-you-go hourly pricing or as Cloud NGFW credits as described in the tables below.
Base NGFW Resource Consumption
You pay an hourly rate for each Cloud NGFW resource. You also pay for the amount of traffic, billed by the gigabyte, processed by the NGFW resource.
Base NGFW ResourcePrice (per hour)Price (per GB)Equivalent Cloud NGFW Credits
Usage HourUp to 3 AZs$ 1.50125.0
Each additional AZ$ 0.5041.7
Traffic SecuredFirst 15 TB/month$ 0.0655.4
Next 15 TB/month$ 0.0453.7
Above 30 TB/month$ 0.0302.5
Usage hour is metered on each NGFW resource you deploy. Traffic is metered across all NGFW resources deployed in your Cloud NGFW tenant.
Cloud-Delivered Security Services (CDSS) add-on Consumption
Your security services add-on consumption is metered on each NGFW resource for each hour you have enabled the add-on and for the amount of traffic processed by that NGFW, when you configured it. The charged rate for the traffic also depends on the aggregate traffic processed by all NGFWs in the tenant during the month (referred to as tiered traffic pricing).
Threat Prevention add-onPrice (per hour)Price (per GB)Equivalent Cloud NGFW Credits
Usage Hour*Up to 3 AZs$ 0.30025.0
Each additional AZ$ 0.1008.3
Traffic SecuredFirst 15 TB/month$ 0.0131.1
Next 15 TB/month$ 0.0090.7
Above 30 TB/month$ 0.0060.5
Advanced Threat Prevention add-onPrice (per hour)Price (per GB)Equivalent Cloud NGFW Credits
Usage Hour*Up to 3 AZs$ 0.4500.8
Each additional AZ$ 0.1500.3
Traffic SecuredFirst 15 TB/month$ 0.0201.7
Next 15 TB/month$ 0.0141.2
Above 30 TB/month$ 0.0090.7
DNS Security add-onPrice (per hour)Price (per GB)Equivalent Cloud NGFW Credits
Usage Hour*Up to 3 AZs$ 0.30025.0
Each additional AZ$ 0.1008.3
Traffic SecuredFirst 15 TB/month$ 0.0131.1
Next 15 TB/month$ 0.0090.7
Above 30 TB/month$ 0.0060.5
WildFire add-onPrice (per hour)Price (per GB)Equivalent Cloud NGFW Credits
Usage Hour*Up to 3 AZs$ 0.30025.0
Each additional AZ$ 0.1008.3
Traffic SecuredFirst 15 TB/month$ 0.0131.1
Next 15 TB/month$ 0.0090.7
Above 30 TB/month$ 0.0060.5
Advanced URL Filtering add-onPrice (per hour)Price (per GB)Equivalent Cloud NGFW Credits
Usage Hour*Up to 3 AZs$ 0.45037.5
Each additional AZ$ 0.15012.5
Traffic SecuredFirst 15 TB/month$ 0.0201.7
Next 15 TB/month$ 0.0141.2
Above 30 TB/month$ 0.0090.7
DLP add-onPrice (per hour)Price (per GB)Equivalent Cloud NGFW Credits
Usage Hour*Up to 3 AZs$ 0.60050.0
Each additional AZ$ 0.20016.7
Traffic SecuredFirst 15 TB/month$ 0.0262.2
Next 15 TB/month$ 0.0181.5
Above 30 TB/month$ 0.0121.0
*Usage hour is metered on each NGFW resource with CDSS add-on enabled.
Centralized Management add-on Consumption
You can use a Panorama virtual appliance to manage policy rules in your Cloud NGFW tenant. In that case, your centralized management add-on consumption is metered on each NGFW resource for each hour you have associated with a Panorama appliance and for the amount of traffic processed by that NGFW, when you configured it. The rate you’re charged for the traffic also depends on the aggregate traffic processed by all NGFWs in the tenant during the month (referred to as tiered traffic pricing).
You don't pay for additional device licenses for managing policy rules in Cloud NGFW resources. Panorama does not count these NGFW resources against its managed device license count.
Cloud NGFW sends logs to the same Strata Logging Services tenant currently associated with your Panorama. You don't pay for additional storage. When used with Cloud NGFW for AWS, Strata Logging Services automatically scales along with the Cloud NGFW for AWS resources. As traffic throughput increases on these Cloud NGFW resources, so does your available storage so that you don't need to worry about making manual adjustments to storage to save your log data.
Palo Alto Networks Centralized Management add-onPrice (per hour)Price (per GB)Equivalent Cloud NGFW Credits
Usage HourUp to 3 AZs$ 0.30025.0
Each additional AZ$ 0.1008.3
Traffic SecuredFirst 15 TB/month$ 0.0131.1
Next 15 TB/month$ 0.0090.7
Above 30 TB/month$ 0.0060.5
Usage hour is metered on each NGFW resource associated with a Panorama virtual appliance.
AWS Marketplace Metering Mechanism
Cloud NGFW uses the AWS SaaS subscription pricing model by translating the tenant’s consumption as Units for multiple Custom dimensions and reports it to AWS Marketplace as shown in the table below. This mechanism provides the flexibility to aggregate your entire tenant’s consumption based on a few dimensions. These dimensions include the deployment hours of all NGFWs, how much traffic they are securing, and how many security features they use every hour. Cloud NGFW translates the security services and centralized management consumption to Cloud NGFW credits and reports it as add-on units to the AWS Metering service.
AWS MarketplaceCloud NGFW SaaS Subscription Price
Base NGFW Usage Hours$ 1.5/unit
(1 unit = 1 usage hour) up to 3 AZs
(0.333 units = 1 usage hour) for additional AZs
Traffic Secured > First 15 TB/month$ 0.065/unit
(1 unit = 1 GB secured)
Traffic Secured > Next 15 TB/month$ 0.045/unit
(1 unit = 1 GB secured)
Traffic Secured > Above 30 TB/month$ 0.030/unit
(1 unit = 1 GB secured)
Add-ons$ 0.012/unit
(1 unit = 1 Cloud NGFW credit)
Refer to the add-on tables above.