Workshop Prerequisites

In this section, we will introduce the prerequisites for this workshop.

To complete the workshop, you will need an understanding of the following concepts and access to the following resources:

• An AWS Account with access to the us-west-2 region (Oregon)
• Two ITF’d FGVMU (Fortigate VM Unlimited) licenses for the BYOL portion of the hybrid licensing model.
• The AWS_ACCESS_KEY and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY for your AWS Account.
• You will need at least 5 Elastic IPs in your AWS Account for the us-west-2 region. It is recommended to ask AWS to up the limit to 10.
• AWS Networking Concepts
  • VPCs
  • Availability Zones (AZ’s)
  • Regions
  • Subnets
  • Route Tables
  • Internet Gateways (IGW)
  • NAT Gateways (NATGW)
  • Elastic IP Addresses (EIP)
  • Security Groups (SG)
  • AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB)
  • AWS Lambda
  • AWS Autoscale
  • AWS Cloudwatch
• AWS Common Architecture Patterns
  • Distributed Ingress + Egress
  • Centralized Egress + East-West