To help users reduce operational costs and energy consumption in cloud
environments, VM-Series firewall now supports ARM-based instances on
AWS Graviton 2(ARM compute) instances for
public clouds and
KVM hypervisor for private clouds. All
features previously available in x86 environments now extend to ARM-based instances
including Hypervisor support, DPDK and other acceleration methods that provide
better performance, while reducing the operational (OPEX) costs, power consumption,
and footprints.
You can access ARM architecture support using VM-Flex licensing models on AWS BYOL or
KVM as Software NGFW credits on the following types of ARM instances:
