The solution is primarily used as a border firewall as well as for internal LAN segregation, internal IPv4 policy management, a VPN for end users, and IPSec tunnels.
Fortinet FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall
Fortinet Inc. | 7.6.3Linux/Unix, Other 7.6.3 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Easy to set up but needs better pricing and more helpful support
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
Before we implemented this solution, we had only one firewall and old Linux IP tables with no graphical user interface.
What is most valuable?
There is no one feature that stands out as most valuable compared to another. All features are correct and no extra items are needed.
What needs improvement?
The price of licensing could be better. The security of the FortiOS needs improvement, and features are available only in CLI. They could be available also in GUI.
Features like forward traffic capture or NAC in the VPN should take into consideration both Linux devices and Apple devices.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've used the solution for more than ten years.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability is okay.
How are customer service and support?
Technical support is not helpful.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We previously worked with Check Point, Palo Alto, Cisco, Watchguard, and PFsense.
How was the initial setup?
The setup is easy. Support is not helpful.
What about the implementation team?
We handled the initial setup in-house.
What was our ROI?
The solution is very expensive.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The price of licensing is too high.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We did not previously evaluate other options before choosing this solution.
What other advice do I have?
Other Fortinet products are not the best, and Fortinet should take care as this will influence brand reputation.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
Great firewall, On-Demand not available for GovCloud ?!
These are great firewalls, they work great for VPC Transit designs. Unavailable for Gov-Cloud as an On-Demand as of August 2018
Finally got it working. Good product. Wrong product for me...AWS customers running mulitple websites
Finally got it up and running with a lot of support from Fortinet Support. Wasn't as straight forward as I'd hoped. One key feature was missing, so be warned if this is what you're after as it's not supported: ++ I wanted to map a single public Elastic IP (associated with the FortiGate server, to multiple internal EC2 instances where all instances were running their own websties and listening on the same port (aka NATing based on URL FQDN to multiple web servers listening on port 443). Very disappointing at the end of the day. Will look at FortiWeb quickly but it's more expensive and have to say Fortinet has disappointed with this AWS offering.
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