: VM-Series on Amazon Web Services Performance and Capacity
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VM-Series on Amazon Web Services Performance and Capacity

View performance and capacity information for the VM-Series on AWS.
Many factors, such as AWS instance size, maximum packets per second supported, number of cores used, and AWS placement group, can affect performance.
We recommend additional testing within your environment to ensure that you meet your performance and capacity requirements. For a complete listing of all VM-Series features and capacities, see compare VM-Series firewalls. The performance and capacities listed in the following table have been generated under these test conditions:
  • Firewall throughput is measured with App-ID™ technology features enabled utilizing 64 KB HTTP 1.1 transactions.
  • IPsec VPN is measured with App-ID™ enabled and performance is tested between a pair of VM-Series firewall instances in a placement group deployed within the same availability zone and region. The performance will vary based on AWS instance type and connectivity topology.
  • Threat Prevention throughput is measured with App-ID, User-ID, IPS, antivirus, and anti-spyware features enabled, utilizing 64 KB HTTP 1.1 transactions.
  • Tested on instances with AWS Nitro Hypervisor and SR-IOV and DPDK are enabled.
Model
2 vCPUs
(formerly VM-100)
4 vCPUs)
(formerly VM-300)
8 vCPUs
(formerly VM-500)
16 vCPUs
(formerly VM-700)
32 vCPUs
64 vCPUs
AWS instance size tested
c6in.xlarge
c6in.xlarge
c6in.2xlarge
c6in.4xlarge
c6in.8xlarge
c6in.16xlarge
Firewall throughput (App-ID enabled)
3 Gbps
5 Gbps
10 Gbps
17 Gbps
30 Gbps
40 Gbps*
Threat Prevention throughput
1 Gbps
2 Gbps
5 Gbps
9 Gbps
16 Gbps
30 Gbps*
IPsec VPN throughput
1 Gbps
2 Gbps
4 Gbps
8 Gbps
14 Gbps
20 Gbps*
*estimated