The way your business leverages cloud and SaaS technologies evolves each and every day -- including where they access systems and data from. As a result, many security and technology executives find it a challenge to strike the right balance between speed and risk. If you’re looking for ideas and best practices to ensure consistent, comprehensive security without adding additional complexity, check out our Prisma resource center for tips and best practices to inform how your next step in your cloud security journey.

To help customers address the diverse cloud and virtualization use cases and the growing need for greater performance, the VM-Series has been optimized and expanded to deliver industry-leading performance of up to 16Gbps of App-ID enabled firewall throughput across five models. Customers can protect their cloud and virtualization initiatives with a security feature set that mirrors those protecting their physical networks and delivers a consistent security posture from the network to the cloud.

This reference document links the technical design aspects of Microsoft Azure with Palo Alto Networks solutions and then explores several technical design models. The design models include multiple options with all resources in a single VNet to enterprise-level operational environments that span across multiple VNets using a Transit VNet.

Next-generation implies that new methods of processing and securing network traffic are being used to provide visibility and control over traffic, applications, and threats. Enterprise security deals with threat protection for large and complex organizations; while cybersecurity scales the vast landscape of the Internet riddled with vulnerabilities and viruses.

This guide provides a foundation for securing network infrastructure using Palo Alto Networks® VMSeries virtualized next generation firewalls within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud. For an organization with a desire to move to public cloud infrastructure, the next question is often “How do I secure my applications in a public cloud?” This guide provides an overview of AWS components and how they can be used to build a scalable and secure public cloud infrastructure on AWS using the VM-Series. The architectures begin with a single virtual private cloud suitable for organizations getting started and scales to thousands to meet any size organization’s operational requirements.

This reference document provides detailed guidance on the requirements and functionality of the Transit VPC design model on AWS. This guide explains how to successfully implement the design using Panorama, Palo Alto Networks® VM-Series firewalls, and VM monitoring.