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# PAN-OS 8.0: Accelerating Large-Scale, Multi-Cloud Deployments

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[PAN-OS 8.0](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/tag/pan-os-8-0/?ts=markdown)

Organizations are adopting AWS and Azure for their production workloads at a rapid pace. Simultaneously, private cloud and virtualization initiatives continue to expand and evolve. Regardless of virtualization environment or public cloud vendor, organizations must protect business-critical applications and data from cybercriminals with a consistent security policy.

In our [PAN-OS 8.0](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2017/02/announcing-pan-os-8-0-biggest-launch-yet/) release, we announced new products and security features designed to accelerate large scale, multi-cloud deployments. Our VM-Series has been optimized and expanded to deliver up to 16 Gbps of firewall throughput with App-ID enabled across five models. Integration features now enable customers to build secure, cloud-centric architectures on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Plus, new workflow automation features accelerate and streamline firewall deployments for VMware NSX and KVM.

### **Enterprise-Class Security for Workloads in the Public Cloud**

Given the agility and scalability advantages, more and more business-critical workloads and data exist in the public cloud. The VM-Series offers seamless integration with native cloud resources in both AWS and Azure to enable customers to build secure, highly available cloud-centric architectures that are scalable and resilient. Key improvements include:

* **Optimized Performance**
  * Our current VM-100 and VM-300 have been optimized to deliver up to 2-4 times their existing performance with 2 Gbps and 4 Gbps of firewall throughput with App-ID enabled for hybrid cloud, segmentation and internet gateway use cases.
* **VM-Series for AWS**
  * More robust monitoring, including the ability to export and send a range of existing capability and performance metrics directly from PAN-OS to AWS CloudWatch, enables the VM-Series to participate more fully in AWS deployments.
  * Azure Application Gateway integration and CloudWatch metrics join the existing Auto Scaling for the VM-Series on AWS integration. These capabilities use AWS services and PAN-OS automation tools to deliver dynamic scalability and cloud-centric availability.
* **VM-Series for Azure**
  * Integration with Azure Application Gateway and Load Balancer allows customers to support security scale out and resiliency to address high availability requirements.

### **Enterprise-Class Security for Private Cloud Deployments**

Organizations are expanding their private cloud and network functions virtualization (NFV) initiatives in different ways, and the breadth of use cases simply cannot be addressed with a one-size-fits-all product that is manually deployed. PAN-OS 8.0 expands and optimizes the VM-Series to deliver App-ID enabled throughput of up to 16 Gbps to address a variety of use cases.

* The new VM-50 is optimized for customer scenarios that range from virtual branch office/customer premise equipment (vCPE) to high-density, multi-tenancy environments, delivering up to 200 Mbps of App-ID enabled firewall performance with minimal resource consumption.
* The new VM-500 and VM-700 deliver 8 Gbps to 16 Gbps of App-ID enabled firewall performance and can be deployed as NFV security components in fully virtualized data center and service provider environments.

The PAN-OS 8.0 release also further automates complex security policy workflows for VMware NSX and KVM deployments.

* \*\*VMware NSX --\*\*Security policy creation and response to security events within software-defined data center (SDDC) environments is now simplified and automated through Panorama network security management.
* \*\*OpenStack/KVM --\*\*Support for config-drive for meta-data sharing simplifies the automation workflows required to deploy and customize the VM-Series for KVM with OpenStack.

With PAN-OS 8.0, Palo Alto Networks customers can leverage the expanded VM-Series to reap the benefits of a cloud security feature set that mirrors their physical networks, delivering a consistent security posture across their infrastructure, from the network to the cloud. New cloud-focused customers can protect workloads with next-generation security features that support consistent policy enforcement through superior visibility, control and threat prevention -- all at the application level.

To learn more, visit [Securely Enabling Public and Private Clouds](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/products/innovations/cloud-security). You'll find a host of cloud-focused security materials, ranging from informational videos and in-depth demos to detailed datasheets and user guides.

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