Your Cloud Needs the Same Firewall Your Data Center Has
Moving workloads to the cloud doesn’t mean leaving security behind. If anything, cloud environments demand more sophisticated network security — because the perimeter that used to be a physical firewall in your server room is now a virtual construct spread across regions, availability zones, and multiple cloud providers.
FortiGate VM and FortiGate CNF bring the same award-winning FortiOS security engine to your cloud infrastructure. Same policies. Same threat intelligence. Same management interface. Whether your workloads run in Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, or a private cloud environment, your FortiGate virtual appliance delivers consistent protection that mirrors what you’d get from physical hardware.
Infonaligy designs and deploys hybrid cloud security architectures that seamlessly connect your on-premises FortiGate firewalls with cloud-based FortiGate VMs — creating a unified security fabric that follows your data wherever it goes.
FortiGate VM — Virtual Appliance
The FortiGate VM runs as a virtual machine in any major cloud or hypervisor environment. It supports 1 to 16 vCPU cores with 2 to 24 GB of RAM, scaling performance to match your workload requirements.
Deployment options include: BYOL (Bring Your Own License) for organizations that want to manage their own licensing across environments, and on-demand deployment through AWS Marketplace, Azure Marketplace, and Google Cloud Marketplace for pay-as-you-go consumption.
Key capabilities: Full FortiOS NGFW feature set including IPS, antivirus, application control, and web filtering. Built-in SD-WAN for intelligent traffic routing between cloud regions and on-premises sites. Remote access VPN for secure workforce connectivity. Zero-touch provisioning for rapid deployment. REST API and JSON-RPC support for DevOps integration and infrastructure-as-code workflows.
Cloud integrations: Azure vWAN for Microsoft environments, AWS Cloud WAN for Amazon infrastructure, and Google Cloud Interconnect for hybrid connectivity. FortiGate VM integrates natively with cloud-native networking constructs rather than fighting against them.
Best for: Hybrid cloud environments, multi-cloud security, cloud workload protection, DevOps-driven infrastructure, organizations migrating from on-premises to cloud.
FortiGate CNF — Cloud-Native Firewall
FortiGate CNF takes cloud security a step further with a cloud-native architecture designed specifically for containerized and Kubernetes environments. Rather than running a traditional VM-based firewall, CNF integrates directly with cloud-native networking to provide security that’s as dynamic and scalable as the containers it protects.
Best for: Kubernetes environments, containerized applications, microservices architectures, cloud-native development teams.
Why Cloud Security Requires More Than Cloud-Native Tools
Every cloud provider offers basic security groups and network ACLs. But these tools provide simple allow/deny filtering — not the deep packet inspection, application awareness, intrusion prevention, and AI-powered threat detection that a next-generation firewall delivers.
The threats targeting your cloud workloads are the same advanced threats targeting your on-premises network: ransomware that encrypts cloud-hosted databases, lateral movement between compromised instances, cryptomining malware that hijacks compute resources, and data exfiltration through encrypted channels that basic security groups can’t inspect.
FortiGate VM applies the same FortiGuard AI-powered threat intelligence in the cloud that protects physical networks. SSL/TLS inspection catches threats hiding in encrypted traffic. IPS signatures block known exploits. Behavioral analysis identifies zero-day attacks. Application control ensures only approved services communicate across your cloud infrastructure.
Hybrid Cloud Architecture with Infonaligy
Most businesses don’t live entirely in the cloud or entirely on-premises. The reality is hybrid — some workloads in Azure, some in AWS, some on a local server, some in a colocation facility. Each environment needs security, and those security policies need to be consistent.
Infonaligy designs hybrid Fortinet architectures where your on-premises FortiGate hardware and your cloud FortiGate VMs are managed as a single security fabric through FortiManager. One policy set. One dashboard. One source of truth.
We integrate your cloud FortiGate deployments with endpoint protection on cloud-hosted workstations, SIEM and SOC monitoring that covers both cloud and on-premises traffic, automated patching for cloud instances, and multi-factor authentication for cloud resource access.
The result is a security architecture that doesn’t have gaps between your physical and virtual environments — because the same firewall platform, the same threat intelligence, and the same management framework protects both.
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