The Amazon Web Service (AWS) is a public cloud service that enables you to run your applications on a shared infrastructure managed by Amazon. These applications can be deployed on scalable computing capacity or EC2 instances in different AWS regions and accessed by users over the internet.

For networking consistency and ease of management of EC2 instances, Amazon offers the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). A VPC is apportioned from the AWS public cloud, and is assigned a CIDR block from the private network space (RFC 1918). Within a VPC, you can carve public/private subnets for your needs and deploy the applications on EC2 instances within those subnets. To then enable access to the applications within the VPC, you can deploy the VM-Series firewall on an EC2 instance. The VM-Series firewall can then be configured to secure traffic to and from the EC2 instances within the VPC.

The VM-Series firewall is available in both the public AWS cloud and on AWS GovCloud. The VM-Series firewall in public AWS and AWS GovCloudsupports the Bring Your Own License (BYOL) model and the hourly Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG), the usage-based licensing model that you can avail from the AWS Marketplace. For licensing details, see VM-Series Firewall Licenses for Public Clouds.