Security for Amazon Web Services

Security-as-a-Service for Amazon Web Services by Bitdefender is a security solution designed for cloud infrastructures and integrated with GZ Cloud Console.

  • Best rated product on Amazon market place
  • Hosted antimalware services for Amazon Web Services EC2 customers
  • Purpose-built security platform, designed for virtualization and cloud
  • Integration with Amazon billing systems for pay-as-you-grow licensing
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Key Benefits

    • Cost-effective solution;
    • Improved performance through minimal resource utilization;
    • Instant scalability
    • Reduced administrative effort


Key Features

    • Hosted scanning services - Employs centralized security servers where most antimalware processes take place through offloading from each protected cloud machine
    • Pay-as-you-grow licensing
    • Lightweight security footprint
    • High-optimization technologies – Focused on the executable 10% of the program that might contain malicious code
    • Automatic deployment with AWS tags
    • Integrated management console

Security for Amazon Licensing

1. Direct payment with credit card. Manage your own instances and pay only what you need, when you need it, so your business can grow with us.

2. Using a Cloud Service Provider that manages the instances lets you find the right configuration via flexible licensing and monthly payment.

Instance type Price per hour
Small $0.005
Medium $0.010
Large $0.025
X-Large $0.060
2xLarge $0.060
4xLarge $0.060
8xLarge $0.060

Bitdefender cost-effective security for Amazon Web Services

Shaun Donaldson speaking about Bitdefender Security-as-a-Service for Amazon Web Services: highly-scalable antimalware services billed by the hour.

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Minimal system demands

Security-as-a-Service for AWS has been architected from the ground up to address performance needs specific to cloud environments with low-impact, lightweight antimalware.

Guest Operating Systems

  • Windows Server 2012 / Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Windows Server 2008 / Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Windows Server 2003 / Windows Server 2003 R2
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS 5.6 or higher
  • Ubuntu 10.04 LTS or higher
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 or higher
  • OpenSUSE 11 or higher
  • Fedora 15 or higher
  • Debian 5.0 or higher
  • Amazon Linux AMI
System Requirements

GravityZone Control Center is delivered as a virtual appliance, packed in the following formats:

  • OVA (compatible with VMware vSphere, View)
  • XVA (compatible with Citrix XenServer, XenDesktop, VDI-in-a-Box)
  • VHD (compatible with Microsoft Hyper-V)
  • TAR.BZ2 archives for KVM, Oracle or RedHat Enterprise Virtualization

Support for other formats and virtualization platforms may be provided on request.

Minimum Hardware Requirements

Deploy the GravityZone virtual appliance with the following minimum hardware configuration:

  • CPU: 4 vCPU with 2 GHz each
  • Minimum RAM memory: 6 GB recommended
  • 40 GB of free hard-disk space

Internet Connection

The GravityZone appliance requires Internet access for updates and communication with remote and mobile endpoints.

Control Center Web Console Requirements

To access the Control Center web console, the following are required:

  • Internet Explorer 9+, Mozilla Firefox 14+, Google Chrome 15+, Safari 5+ Recommended screen resolution: 1024x768 or higher