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Subscriptions

Types of subscriptions

There are two types of Security for AWS subscriptions, available for end-customers and partner entities in GravityZone :

  1. Via Partner Advantage Network for Bitdefender partners.

  2. Via AWS Marketplace product page for direct end-customers.

Partner subscriptions

If you are a direct Bitdefender distributor or partner, follow the steps below to subscribe to the AWS service via the Bitdefender PAN portal:

  • Connect to your Bitdefender Partner Advantage Network account, go to the AWS view and use the two available options to:

    1. Create a new GravityZone company.

    2. Log in to an existing GravityZone account. If you use this option, make sure to employ your main partner account where you manage your linked customers and resellers.

    This integration between PAN and Control Center is needed for billing purposes, allowing us to properly collect and report the AWS usage associated with your GravityZone companies.

  • Optionally, you can configure your Amazon EC2 integration from the Integrations page in Control Center . As a direct partner, it is not mandatory to actually configure an integration and use the AWS service for your own network, if you do not own an AWS account. This step is only needed by customers and partners who must protect their EC2 instances. Once you setup the integration and deploy the first security agent, you are going to benefit from a 30-day free trial of the service for the first integration. Any integration added after that is going to be fully licensed.

  • You can create Amazon EC2 monthly usage reports for all of your managed companies.

  • For more information regarding your PAN account, please contact your Bitdefender account manager.

You can view the Amazon EC2 Integration in GravityZone Control Center . If needed, you can change your Bitdefender distributor by providing the Partner ID in the My Company page.

Security for AWS covers all license types, except for Free Risk Assessment Tool and Bitdefender EDR standalone for MSP subscriptions.

AWS Marketplace subscriptions

To subscribe to Security for AWS as a direct customer, you must first have at least one active AWS account. You must create and use IAM user accounts associated to your AWS root account. Learn more about IAM here. In addition, make sure to use a production account where you are going to be charged by AWS on a monthly basis for using the Bitdefender service.

To subscribe to Security for AWS from Amazon Marketplace:

  1. Login to your AWS user account.

  2. Access the Security for AWS page on Amazon Marketplace.

  3. Click the View purchase option button on the right side of the page. You will be redirected to the subscription details page.

  4. After reading the subscription details, click the Subscribe button. A confirmation message is displayed:

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    At this point, you are subscribed to Security for AWS . You are going to be prompted next to set up your Bitdefender GravityZone account.

  5. Click Set Up Your Account to proceed.

    You are redirected to a subscription form hosted on the Bitdefender website. From this point forward, follow the steps according to your Bitdefender customer status:

    1. As new customer:

      1. Fill in the required information.

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      2. Click Complete Registration to finish.

        If the provided details are valid, a customer company and a user account are going to be created for you in GravityZone Control Center . You are going to receive an email confirmation for your subscription to the service on Amazon Marketplace. You are also going to receive a GravityZone new account confirmation email, with your login details. At this moment, you can access GravityZone Control Center using the link provided in the email.

    2. As existing customer, you only need to provide your GravityZone Control Center credentials:

      1. Click the link provided under the form's title.

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      2. Enter your GravityZone credentials.

        Note

        You must provide the credentials of a company administrator account.

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      3. Click Confirm Subscription.

        If the login credentials are valid, a confirmation message is going to appear. Access GravityZone Control Center and log in to your account.

        At this point, you can start configuring the Amazon EC2 integrations.

        You can find more information about subscribing to Security for AWS from Amazon Marketplace in Subscribe to Bitdefender Security for Amazon Web Services in AWS Marketplace.

Checking subscription status

To check your subscription status, access the GravityZone Control Center, go to the user menu at the upper-right side of the page and choose Integrations. The subscription information is available on this page according to your subscription type.

Free trial subscription status

You can register for a free trial on the product page from the Bitdefender website. Once registered, you must first configure an Amazon EC2 integration. Afterwards, you can check your subscription information on the Integrations page.

The subscription status can be:

  • Trial. Once you have configured an Amazon EC2 integration and deployed the agent, you can start using this service in trial mode for 30 days for Partner subscriptions and 7 days for Marketplace subscriptions. Along with the trial status, you can also view the remaining days of your trial period. During the trial period, you can fully protect and manage any number of instances using the security services available with GravityZone Control Center.

    Note

    You cannot have a trial subscription if an integration is already configured.

  • Expired. This status applies after the trial period has expired, on accounts where the Amazon Payment subscription has not yet been configured. To continue using the service, you must subscribe from AWS Marketplace. Click the widget to easily access our product page on AWS Marketplace and continue with the subscription procedure.

Note

If a subscription is activated from the AWS Marketplace and the integration is not configured, only the Marketplace logo is going to be displayed in the My Company page, without displaying the status of the integration.

Licensing

Security for AWS is a pay-per-use service available with a monthly subscription. When calculating the usage, only running instances on which the security agent is installed are taken into account.

  • If you have registered to the service via Amazon Marketplace, you immediately obtain a licensed subscription. Every month, Amazon are going to issue an invoice for your usage in the previous month and you are going to make it available as part of the consolidated billing option from your AWS account.

  • If you subscribe for a Bitdefender Security for AWS free trial on our website, you are going to obtain a 30-days trial that starts once the first integration is configured. During the trial period, all features are fully functional and you can use the service on any number of instances. To continue using the service after the trial expires, you must subscribe to the service on Amazon Marketplace.

  • If you subscribe to the service as a Bitdefender partner via the PAN portal, you are going to benefit from a 30-days trial, which starts once the first integration is configured. The same trial period is valid for all your child companies linked to your partner account. After the trial expires, the service is automatically licensed for your managed companies, without having to enter a license key.

For information regarding checking the subscription status, please refer to Checking subscription status.

Note

Security for AWS is compatible with all GravityZone cloud solutions.

Usage and payments

Bitdefender provides usage-based licensing for its AWS security solution allowing you to pay based on the number of hours of uptime on your protected instances.

When calculating usage, only running instances are taken into account. The usage for each instance is counted by the hour, from the time it is launched until it is stopped or terminated. Usage lower than an hour is reported as a full hour, inline with the EC2 usage reporting.

For end-customers registered via the AWS Marketplace, GravityZone counts and reports hourly to Amazon the usage for each instance type in your company. Based on this information, Amazon is going to issue a monthly fee for all types of running instances. You are charged and billed at the beginning of each month based on your usage in the previous calendar month.

Similarly, for partners and their customers, GravityZone reports the hourly usage to the Bitdefender PAN platform at the beginning of each month. Direct partners are then invoiced by Bitdefender based on the hourly usage of their client network.

Pricing is per instance-hour consumed for each instance.

For the complete list of EC2 instance dimension types available with Security for AWS on Amazon Marketplace, refer to Supported EC2 instances.

You can check your usage information by generating an Amazon EC2 Monthly Usage report, which provides detailed information about the hourly usage for all managed instances belonging to the companies under your management. To learn more, refer to Creating Amazon EC2 specific reports section of the Manage your Amazon EC2 instances page.

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