Cortex Cloud License Estimator

This is an unofficial web application to help Palo Alto Networks team or partners to estimate the license required for Cortex Cloud consumption. The calculator will not provide a price estimation. Once completed, take the number of license count, and work with your Palo Alto Networks sales representative to complete the commercial quote. For the official information, refer to the Cortex Cloud Metering Guide .

Features

Posture Security Runtime Security Application Security

Workload Quantities

VMs (not running containers)

VMs (running containers)

CaaS (Managed Containers)

Serverless Functions

Container Images in Registries

Cloud Buckets

Managed Cloud Database (PaaS)

DBaaS (TB Stored)

SaaS Users

Developers

Cloud ASM - Unmanaged Services

Results

Click "Calculate License" to see the estimated license count.

Sizing Questions

Here are some questions to help a customer to estimate the number of license required for Cortex Cloud:

What are the key capabilities that are required? (Posture Security, Runtime Security, Application Security, Cloud ASM)
What are the Cloud Service Providers (CSP) currently in use? (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI)
How many VMs in the cloud environment that are not running containers?
How many VMs in the cloud environment that are running containers? (AWS EKS, Azure AKS, etc, count by worker nodes)
How many Containers as a Service are running in the cloud environment? (AWS Fargate, etc, count by service)
How many serverless functions in the cloud environment? (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, etc)
How many container images are stored in the registry? (AWS ECR, Azure Container Registry, Google Artifact Registry, etc)
How many storage buckets in the cloud? (AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Storage Bucket, etc)
How many managed cloud databases in the cloud environment? (AWS RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora)
How many developers (git committers) that you have in your environment?
How many unmanaged assets are expected to be discovered? If unsure, 25% of posture workloads will be used as guideline
Is there any expectation on growth over the next few years? (multi-year contract)

Sizing Script

While the estimator above provides a manual calculation, the most accurate method to determine license count is by using an automated script.

Refer to the unofficial Cortex Cloud Sizing Script Github Page for more information.

About This Tool

This license estimator is maintained by the Domain Consultant team based out of Singapore. If you have any feedback or recommendation, feel free to reach out to your Palo Alto Networks sales representative.

Use at Your Own Risk. This tool is not responsible for any errors or wrong calculations. Independent verification of all results is strongly recommended.