02-27-2026 11:17 AM
Hi @T.Bryant250413 ,
I hear you. I can’t count the number of times AWS budget reviews happen and the Palo EC2s are that one persistent line item that always gets attention compared to other services being utilized $$$$.
My .2: I’ve personally never run anything below the documented minimum requirements. Most of my experience has been supporting medium to large enterprise environments, so I’ve generally stayed aligned with supported sizing guidance rather than experimenting below it.
If this is a production deployment, I would strongly encourage meeting or exceeding the minimum requirements for PAN-OS 11.1.
In smaller environments, steady-state utilization may appear low. However, the minimum guidance is designed to support the PAN-OS management plane architecture including commit processing, internal configuration databases, object expansion, upgrade operations (software and dynamic), and all of the jobs of processes running in the background that make panos run...
Also, running the documented requirements also ensures full support alignment if performance or stability concerns arise. If you run into issues and contact support, the first thing that they will recommend is to bump up to the min reqs.
