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  • VM-Series on Microsoft Azure Performance and Capacity
  • VM-Series Models on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs)
  • VM-Series on Google Cloud Platform Performance and Capacity
  • VM-Series on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Performance and Capacity

End-of-Life (EoL) VM-Series Models on AWS EC2 Instances About AWS EC2 Instance Families vs. Instance Types vs. Instance Size 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.

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 (BYOL and ELA)**
General Purpose	m4	xlarge	4	16	High	4	VM-300	VM-300	VM-300, VM-100
		2xlarge	8	32	High	4	VM-500	VM-500	VM-500, VM-300, VM-100
		4xlarge	16	64	High	8	VM-700	VM-700	VM-700, VM-500, VM-300, VM-100
General Purpose	m5***	large	2	8	Up to 10	3	VM-100	VM-100	VM-100
		xlarge	4	16	Up to 10	4	VM-300	VM-300	VM-300, VM-100
		2xlarge	8	32	Up to 10	4	VM-500	VM-500	VM-500, VM-300, VM-100
		4xlarge	16	64	Up to 10	8	VM-700	VM-700	VM-700, VM-500, VM-300, VM-100
		12xlarge	48	192	10	8	VM-700	VM-700	VM-700, VM-500, VM-300, VM-100
General Purpose	m5n ***	large	2	8	Up to 25	3	VM-100	VM-100	VM-100
		xlarge	4	16	Up to 25	4	VM-300	VM-300	VM-300, VM-100
		2xlarge	8	32	Up to 25	4	VM-500	VM-500	VM-500, VM-300, VM-100
		4xlarge	16	64	Up to 25	8	VM-700	VM-700	VM-700, VM-500, VM-300, VM-100

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 (BYOL and ELA)**
Compute Optimized	c4	large	2	3.75	Moderate	3	N/A	N/A	N/A
		xlarge	4	7.5	High	4	VM-100	VM-100	VM-100
		2xlarge	8	15	High	4	VM-300	VM-300	VM-300, VM-100
		4xlarge	16	30	High	3	VM-500	VM-500	VM-500, VM-300, VM-100
		8xlarge	36	60	10 GB	8	VM-700	VM-700	VM-700, VM-500, VM-300, VM-100
Compute Optimized	c5***	large	2	4	Up to 10	3	N/A	N/A	N/A
		xlarge	4	8	Up to 10	4	VM-100	VM-100	VM-100
		2xlarge	8	16	Up to 10	4	VM-300	VM-300	VM-300, VM-100
		4xlarge	16	32	Up to 10	8	VM-500	VM-500	VM-500, VM-300, VM-100
		9xlarge	36	72	10	8	VM-700	VM-700	VM-700, VM-500, VM-300, VM-100
		18xlarge	72	144	25	15	VM-700	VM-700	VM-700, VM-500, VM-300, VM-100
Compute Optimized	c5n***	large	2	5.25	Up to 25	3	N/A	N/A	N/A
		xlarge	4	10.5	Up to 25	4	VM-300	VM-300	VM-300, VM-100
		2xlarge	8	21	Up to 25	4	VM-500	VM-500	VM-500, VM-300, VM-100
		4xlarge	16	42	Up to 25	8	VM-500	VM-500	VM-500, VM-300, VM-100
		9xlarge	36	96	50	8	VM-700	VM-700	VM-700, VM-500, VM-300, VM-100
		18xlarge	72	192	100	15	VM-700	VM-700	VM-700, VM-500, VM-300, VM-100

*When you launch the VM-Series firewall corresponding to this AWS Marketplace listing, it automatically learns the compute resources for the AWS EC2 instance and applies the appropriate VM-Series model (VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, or VM-700). **You can launch the VM-Series firewall model corresponding to this AWS Marketplace listing on an AWS instance size that provides more resources than the minimum requirements. However, the firewall does not take advantage of the additional memory or CPU cores. If you launch the firewall model on an instance size that does not meet the minimum requirements, the firewall will boot in maintenance mode.***v8.1.x does not support C5 or M5 instance types. See VM-Series Deployment Guide for AWS (v8.1.x). Previous VM-Series on Amazon Web Services Performance and Capacity Next VM-Series on Microsoft Azure Performance and Capacity

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