Provides secure application mobility and consistent policies across enterprise hybrid clouds

Fortinet, the global leader in high-performance cyber security solutions, announced this week that its FortiGate Virtual Machine (VM) is available to customers of VMware Cloud™ on AWS.

Launched with initial availability in AWS US West Region (Oregon), VMware Cloud on AWS brings together VMware’s enterprise-class Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) software and elastic, bare-metal infrastructure from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to give organizations a consistent operating model and application mobility for private and public cloud.

The FortiGate VM enables an existing VMware-based private cloud to securely extend to the public cloud with site-to-site connectivity, cross-cloud segmentation, and consistent security policies for customers of VMware Cloud on AWS.

As enterprises transition to hybrid cloud infrastructure, 51 percent of recent survey respondents indicate that security remains a top challenge. FortiGate VMs provide VMware Cloud on AWS users with a combination of advanced threat intelligence from FortiGuard Labs with the industry’s leading security operating system, FortiOS, delivering complete security control, workload visibility, and management across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Enterprises can now move workloads from the data center to the AWS public cloud securely, without jeopardizing policy visibility.

Fortinet virtualized security has long been available to global enterprises and service providers running VMware vSphere, providing visibility into east-west traffic in virtualized data centers and private clouds. With FortiGate VM for VMware Cloud on AWS, organizations can expand their on-premise network to AWS with secure site-to-site VPN connectivity and Fortinet Security Fabric visibility capabilities for application mobility. Organizations can ensure that an application running on vSphere has the same security posture throughout the hybrid cloud, regardless of whether the application is on-premises or in VMware Cloud on AWS, while providing proper segmentation of users and data between clouds.