AWS EC2 Deployment Guidelines

Cortex XSOAR 6.13 AWS EC2 deployment sizing requirements and best practices.

AWS EC2 deployments have specific technical and sizing requirements, and a set of Cortex XSOAR best practices.

After you configure and verify your AWS EC2 deployment, install the Cortex XSOAR Server.

Supported AWS EC2 Instance Types

Cortex XSOAR server installation is supported on the following Amazon EC2 instance types.

Instance Type	Instance Name
M5	m5.4xlarge
m5.12xlarge
m5.24xlarge
M4	m4.4xlarge
m4.10xlarge
m4.16xlarge
C5	c5.4xlarge
c5.9xlarge
c5.18xlarge
C4	c4.4xlarge
c4.8xlarge
R4	r4.4xlarge
r4.8xlarge
r4.16xlarge
T2	Only use this instance type for evaluation and testing.

Supported EC2 Storage

We recommend that you use EBS-optimized2 instances (included in C4,M4 instance family types).

Note

Minimum disk space for production environment is 500 GB.

Network and Security

Inbound connections: Cortex XSOAR server requires that you open HTTPS port 443 for inbound connections.

Outbound connections: outbound ports depending on your integrations and specific requirements. By default, AWS opens all traffic.

Supported OS

Cortex XSOAR supports server installation on these Linux distributions.

AWS Backup

You can use Amazon EBS snapshots3 to back up your AWS EC2 instances. Use snapshots for incremental backups, point-in-time restoration, and to view history data.