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Table of Contents

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About AWS EC2 Instance Families vs. Instance Types vs. Instance Size in PAN-OS 12.1.x.

The AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service provides scalable computing capacity to launch virtual machines (AWS EC2 instances). AWS categorizes EC2 as Instance families—General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Memory Optimized, Accelerate Networking, and Storage Optimized—to fit different use cases and application profiles. Each instance family consists of multiple instance types. These instance types offer different compute, memory, and storage capabilities. Each instance type is also available in different instance sizes—nano, micro, small, medium, large, xlarge, 2xlarge, 4xlarge, 8xlarge, 10xlarge, 16xlarge, and 32xlarge— to address workload requirements.

For optimized price to performance ratio, Palo Alto Networks recommends using AWS instance types m5 and above over m4, and c5 and above over c4 instances.

The c8i instances are supported in PAN-OS 12.1.3 and later.

Instance Family	Instance Type	Instance Size	vCPU	Memory (GB)	Network Bandwidth (Gbps)	Maximum Network Interfaces	VM-Series Next-Generation Firewall Bundle 1*	VM-Series Next-Generation Firewall Bundle 2*	VM-Series Next-Generation Firewall Bundle 3*	VM-Series Next-Generation Firewall (BYOL and ELA)**
Compute Optimized	c8i	xlarge	4	8	Up to 12.5	1	VM-300	VM-300	VM-300	VM-300, VM-100
		2xlarge	8	16	Up to 15	1	VM-500	VM-500	VM-500	VM-500, VM-300, VM-100
		4xlarge	16	32	Up to 15	1	VM-500	VM-500	VM-500	VM-500, VM-300, VM-100
		8xlarge	32	64	15	1	VM-700	VM-700	VM-700	VM-700, VM-500, VM-300, VM-100
		12xlarge	48	96	22.5	1	VM-700	VM-700	VM-700	VM-700, VM-500, VM-300, VM-100
		16xlarge	64	128	30	1	VM-700	VM-700	VM-700	VM-700, VM-500, VM-300, VM-100

VM-Series Firewall Docs

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VM-Series Firewall Docs

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Activation and Onboarding

Next-Generation Firewalls

Cloud-Delivered Security Services

Network Security

Endpoints

Resources