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The VM-Series Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) gives security teams complete visibility and control over all networks using powerful traffic identification, malware prevention, and threat intelligence technologies.
Overview
VM-Series, when combined with native AWS services, enable you to create "touchless" deployments and allow your developers to operate at the speed of the cloud. VM-Series protects your applications and data using whitelisting and segmentation policies that are dynamically updated based on AWS tags, allowing you to reduce the attack surface area and achieve compliance. Additionally, threat prevention policies can stop both known and unknown attacks.
VM-Series now supports DPDK on the C5, C5n, M5, and M5n instances, running on the AWS Nitro System, to efficiently process traffic and offer increased performance. In addition, Panorama (available separately in Marketplace) allows the VM-Series to be managed centrally alongside our firewall appliances to maintain security policies that are consistent with on-premises environments.
There are three PAYG bundles available. The licenses includes are as follows: Bundle 1: VM-Series+Threat Prevention+USG (US Government) Support Bundle 2: VM-Series+Threat Prevention+URL Filtering+DNS Security+Global Protect+WildFire+USG (US Government) Support. Link: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-wsu46li6jw3je Bundle 3: VM-Series+Advanced Threat Prevention+Advanced URL Filtering+DNS Security+Global Protect+WildFire+USG (US Government) Support. Link: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-gfbcyenj6z75u
Highlights
- An AWS Network Competency and Security Competency approved solution that complements native AWS security with real-time threat and data theft prevention
- Dynamic and large scale deployments can be protected using AWS Auto Scaling/ELB integration and Transit VPC with AWS Transit Gateway and Gateway Load Balancer
- Amazon GuardDuty and AWS Security Hub integration enables the VM-Series to automatically block potentially malicious activity.
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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OtherLinux PAN-OS 11.1.6-h7
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Dimension | Cost/hour |
|---|---|
m5.2xlarge Recommended | $1.45 |
m5.large | $0.79 |
c5n.xlarge | $0.79 |
m5n.large | $0.79 |
m5.4xlarge | $2.88 |
c5.xlarge | $0.79 |
c5.4xlarge | $1.45 |
c5.2xlarge | $0.89 |
c5n.4xlarge | $1.45 |
c5n.2xlarge | $0.89 |
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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See documentation for detailed steps to set admin password before using the web interface of VM-Series. Once the instance is running, connect to it using a SSH client with the private key file used to launch the instance. For example: ssh -i <privatekey.pem> admin@<EIP or private IP of eth0> Then use the PAN-OS CLI commands "configure", "set mgt-config users admin password" and "commit" commands to set the password.
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Customer reviews
Computer & Network Security
Virtualized Security Excellence if you can afford it
Reviewed on May 07, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I believe what I like the best about these FWs is their Application level visibility. The App-ID tech used in the Firewalls allows us in our environment to control applications on a granular level allowing improved security.
Also the fact they're fairly easy to deploy and implement in any environment our customers have such as VMware, AWS, Azure cloud etc. This helps with the ease of integration within the organizations using multiple cloud solutions.
Also the fact they're fairly easy to deploy and implement in any environment our customers have such as VMware, AWS, Azure cloud etc. This helps with the ease of integration within the organizations using multiple cloud solutions.
What do you dislike about the product?
One con would be that they can have some complex initial configuration and may require special expertise within the customer support environment, which can discourage may discourage smaller organizations from using these as they have slightly high licensing and maintenance costs compared to other Virtual FW solutions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
They help with the scalability of our setups as they can be used with multiple cloud environments with no limitations such as AWS, Azure, GCP or even VMware
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Naveed A.
Good alternative for a hardware firewall
Reviewed on May 05, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like it has almost the same features as the hardware firewall. It's easy to deploy on any cloud solution like azure,aws. User based policies in VM is a great next step after application segmentation.
Palo Alto support is always great to deal with.
Palo Alto support is always great to deal with.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost to have and maintain a Palo Alto firewall is always a challenge. It's the same with the VM series as well, being an expensive product.
Reporting seems to be limited as compared to physical firewall. VM Palo Alto doesn't provide hardware acceleration as well.
Reporting seems to be limited as compared to physical firewall. VM Palo Alto doesn't provide hardware acceleration as well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have deployed Palo Alto VM firewall in our vsphere switch which is for protecting our production servers. We have different types of servers deployed on virtualized switch, all the traffic to servers passes through Palo Alto vm. Different application control and web profiles have been setup as per server on VM.
VM is easy to upgrade and keep a check on licenses accordingly. Panorama provides a complete landscape of security which helps us in setting up policies.
VM is easy to upgrade and keep a check on licenses accordingly. Panorama provides a complete landscape of security which helps us in setting up policies.
Dustin L.
PA Virtual Firewall Review
Reviewed on May 05, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use & implementation of Palo Alto products is straight forward and they make it easy for even first time administrators to learn and adapt the technology to clients' needs. Customer support for their products is excellent, also very easy to integrate.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have found nothing that I dislike about this product, other than actually having to have hands on equipment to deploy. This can cause issues when shipping a device to a client in a different location as it can be tricky to walk an end user through setup.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is helping us to keep all of our switches and other networking gear secure by being the front line defense against attacks. This is benefiting our organization because it keeps the house from burning down and keeps our clients secure in a SOC II Type 2 environment.
Information Technology and Services
Very secure snd trustworthy
Reviewed on May 03, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Best thing about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall is its deep integration with major cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP, which makes deployment very easy. I also like the fact it delivers consistent security policies across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Furthermore, the App-ID and Threat Prevention features provide granular control and proactive defense against advanced threats.
What do you dislike about the product?
One downside of the Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall is that its user interface can be a bit hard to navigate, especially for new users. The configuration process is not as intuitive
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The VM-Series Firewall secures our cloud workloads by blocking threats and enforcing consistent policies. It improves our security and helps maintain compliance across environments.
Logistics and Supply Chain
Palo Alto Usage Review
Reviewed on May 02, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
my best pick for VM-Series is In line Machine leaning or MI powered security to protect our cloud infrastructure from cyber attacks, especially zero day attacks which are highly dangerous
What do you dislike about the product?
to be honest, Personally, I don't find anything to dislike about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall. But, price is often came up as a topic of discussion in meeting with management.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am using it to monitor ingress and egress traffic, and also using security policies to protect out cloud infrastructure. we are leveraging panorama management solution to deploy VMs and it is also helping us in managing ngfs.