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)
  • A FortiCloud account
  • A FortiGate CNF subscription
  • 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 Transit Gateway (TGW)
    • AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB)
  • AWS Common Architecture Patterns
    • Distributed Ingress + Egress
    • Centralized Egress + East-West
  • FortiGate CNF Terminology
    • CNF Console
    • CNF Instance
    • CNF Policy Set
    • Security Group Profile