We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate Cloud and HashiCorp Terraform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about AlgoSec, Tufin, Palo Alto Networks and others in Firewall Security Management."Our customers implement this solution so that they can be assured of security in their environment."
"The solution is scalable because they have models that allow it to be right sized."
"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud has valuable firewall, SSL VPN, and web filtering features."
"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is easy to use."
"The hardware is reliable, and their support is excellent."
"We use the solution for routing and cloud security. We have multiple offices nationwide, all connected through the MPRS network, which is terminated at our FortiGate firewall. We consolidate our networks, filter packets, and segment our network through this firewall. My company has around three lakh firewalls."
"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud has security features like DDoS protection and UTM."
"The most valuable features are management and integration."
"The solution allows us to work faster with ease and to set up new environments and workspaces."
"Provides automation which has increased our efficiency."
"One of the most valuable features is that it offers the ability to create a VPC, Virtual Private Cloud and VPN connectivity to the VPC can be automated without having to do it manually."
"The ARM template is very easy to work with, which is a big help to us."
"The environment is very good. That's awesome."
"It's very easy to automate functions on the cloud with HashiCorp Terraform. The commands are easy as well."
"The solution helps us save a lot of costs."
"It is easy to recreate an exact duplicate or output of an environment."
"FortiGate Cloud could be improved with increased granularity for our control."
"We need some integration or communication between the endpoint and the firewall."
"In the email security modules they have in their UTM, maybe they can include more extended or expanded features for the email security where users can have their own portal login to release blocked emails, as an example."
"Fortinet could improve FortiGate Cloud by providing better integration with third-party applications and features."
"It is currently durable, but they may be able to improve it further. They can adapt Cisco technology because of its durability."
"They're constantly doing maintenance and there are unexpected downtimes for the cloud interface."
"However, the absence of certain features like CLI is a drawback."
"GUI access could be improved. It should be simpler to access everything from the portal. Once we log in to the portal, we should be able to access all the Fortinet Cloud options."
"HashiCorp Terraform is an open-source tool that relies on external developers to create plugins to expand its capabilities. However, this approach can be problematic as not all plugins are created by professionals and some may have security vulnerabilities. In the case of GKE, Google has created a solid plugin, but for other services, one must search for plugins on the HashiCorp Terraform registry, which can be hit or miss, as many plugins are created by students or hobbyists, who may not continue to maintain or update them. This model of open-sourced plugins may not be the most reliable or secure way of expanding the tool's capabilities."
"The solution is complex when we use it for a loop. This is a problem, not because of the language itself, but because of how the infrastructure generally works. It's different from Python."
"The solution is missing a lot of properties for specific resources."
"They have added a feature that helps us to import existing resources to our workspace, but if they can help us to create the code for the import, as well, then it would be a great addition."
"On a scale from one to ten, I would give this solution a rating of seven; strictly because I was uncomfortable using the ARM template earlier. After another six months, I am sure I will give it a rating of 10, but at this point in time in my experience, I say seven, but not because of the tool itself."
"Community tech support could be a little better."
"HashiCorp Terraform state management could be improved to be used efficiently with multi-users."
"With cloud providers always adding new resource types, there are certain resources that Terraform does not support. It would be great if it could support those resources as well."
Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is ranked 5th in Firewall Security Management with 55 reviews while HashiCorp Terraform is ranked 6th in Configuration Management with 38 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is rated 8.2, while HashiCorp Terraform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud writes "Useful for routing and cloud security purposes but needs to incorporate XDR capabilities ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HashiCorp Terraform writes "Easy to use, technically strong, and great for multi-provider or multi-cloud environments". Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, AWS Firewall Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF) and Azure Firewall Manager, whereas HashiCorp Terraform is most compared with Microsoft Intune, SaltStack, Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager and BigFix.
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