Short answer
Yes. If you run FortiAnalyzer-VM yourself under a Fortinet licence, you can move to FirstNet's FAZaaS instead of renewing. You stop handling patching, backups, capacity planning and upgrades, move from a US dollar licence renewal to a monthly rand service, and gain South African hosting.
In detail
What changes when you migrate:
- Operations: FirstNet runs the dedicated FortiAnalyzer-VM, including patching, upgrades, backups and capacity monitoring
- Commercials: a monthly storage bundle in rands, with no Fortinet licence on your invoice
- Hosting: FirstNet-operated infrastructure in South Africa
- Support: FirstNet's managed-service path instead of you managing the vendor yourself
Timing matters: start planning four to six months before your licence renewal so your log history can be transferred cleanly.
Before onboarding, FirstNet sizes the bundle from your device count, daily log volume and retention. Some reports need minimum FortiGate firmware versions, and FortiGates split across several FortiCloud accounts should be consolidated first, so FirstNet checks both during onboarding.
Source: FirstNet Hosted Firewall & Network Security service page →
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