AWS UTM HA Firmware updates

Anyone?

Hello. To update an HA deployment of the UTM on AWS, you will need to modify the AMI ID in the cloud formation stack that you used for the deployment to the latest AMI image. You can obtain the latest AMi image by referring to this Github repository - https://github.com/sophos-iaas/aws-cf-templates/tree/master/utm

This way, the update will occur using the AWS cloud formation update mechanism with a new UTM built, config downloaded from the S3 bucket and Elastic IP moved to the new instance. As always, ensure you follow your internal change management process of testing and roll back plans and always ensure you have a a backup of your configuration.

Hello. To update an HA deployment of the UTM on AWS, you will need to modify the AMI ID in the cloud formation stack that you used for the deployment to the latest AMI image. You can obtain the latest AMi image by referring to this Github repository - https://github.com/sophos-iaas/aws-cf-templates/tree/master/utm

This way, the update will occur using the AWS cloud formation update mechanism with a new UTM built, config downloaded from the S3 bucket and Elastic IP moved to the new instance. As always, ensure you follow your internal change management process of testing and roll back plans and always ensure you have a a backup of your configuration.

Hey Neil, good to see you on here (I am one of the guys at the reseller you contacted the other day -- I'm one of the mods on here) ...  Check out the release notes...  https://community.sophos.com/products/unified-threat-management/b/utm-blog/posts/sophos-utm-9-506-on-aws-release-notes

I recommend that you create a test environment to test any sort of process you create for an AWS environment, as small mistakes can cause big headaches to correct later.

Hi David,

thanks for the tip with the modification of the AMI-ID. The thing is, under the link you posted, the latest version of UTM is 9.506. We recently updated our UTMs to 9.509-3 and are thinking about extending them to a ha-cluster. So how can we create a cluster with UTM version 9.509-3? Can you tell when the 509er version will be released to AWS?

Thanks in regards,

Sebastian