Deploy MetaDefender Core™ Your Way Across Virtual Machines, Kubernetes, or SaaS
Built to adapt to your infrastructure, MetaDefender Core offers deployment flexibility from Virtual Machine to SaaS to Container, and MetaDefender Cluster for high availability and scalability.
- Flexibility Without Compromise
- Deploy At Scale
- Fast Time to Protection
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Deploying Security at Scale
Mismatched Tools, Missing Coverage
Organizations running mixed environments struggle to find a single security solution that works on-premises, in the cloud, and in containerized workloads without compromising coverage or control.
Complexity That Delays Protection
Long setup cycles, manual configuration, and lack of automation mean security lags behind infrastructure growth, leaving systems unprotected during critical transition periods.
Maintenance That Strains Teams
Keeping engines updated, maintaining compliance industry regulations, and managing infrastructure across multiple environments consumes resources that should be focused on threat response.
Flexible and Adaptable Deployment
Virtual Machines
Run MetaDefender Core on any cloud or on-premises VM. Scale from a single node to elastic Auto Scaling Groups without changing your workflow.
- Single Instance
- Multiple Instances
- Auto Scaling Group
- MetaDefender Cluster
Containers
Helm-based deployment across every major Kubernetes flavor, cloud-managed or self-hosted. One chart, any cluster.
- Amazon EKS
- Azure AKS
- Google GKE
- Red Hat OpenShift
- K8S Local Cluster
- Docker Swarm
- MetaDefender Core Container
- MetaDefender Cluster
SaaS
Choose this flexible managed deployment option that scales with your needs, with minimal setup and no infrastructure overhead.
Deployment Options At a Glance
Virtual Machines
- Full infrastructure and data control
- Air gap and offline deployment ready
- Terraform and CloudFormation templates included
- Horizontal scale with Auto Scaling Group and load balancer
- Linux and Windows Server support
Containers
- Horizontal scaling
- Scalability
- Self-healing
- Secret and configuration management
- Automated rollouts and rollbacks
- Automatic bin packing
- Lightweight and portable container
- Built-in networking and service discovery
- Consistent environments across dev, test, and production
Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Zero infrastructure overhead, OPSWAT manages everything
- Install and start processing files within minutes
- Continuous engine and signature updates, always current
- Global availability and built-in redundancy
Which Deployment Is Right for You?
Virtual Machines | Containers | SaaS | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure Control | Full control | High control | Managed by OPSWAT |
| Setup Complexity | High | Medium | Minimal |
| Time to Deploy | Hours to Days | Minutes to Hours | Fast, minimal setup |
| Elastic Scaling | Manual/ASG | Auto Scaling/HPA | Automatic |
| Self-Healing | Not native | Native pod restart | Platform-managed |
| Air Gap / Offline Support | Fully supported | Fully supported | Requires connectivity |
| Ops & Maintenance | Customer-managed | Customer-managed | Fully managed |
| Engine / Signature Updates | Manual / scheduled | Manual / scheduled | Continuous automatic |
| Data Residency | Customer-controlled | Customer-controlled | Depends on plan |
| Best For | High-security, regulated, air-gapped environments | Cloud-native teams, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps | Fast integration, low ops overhead, SaaS-first orgs |
Supporting Enterprise Compliance
MetaDefender Core strengthens compliance frameworks by ensuring reliable, auditable, and scalable file security processes.
MetaDefender Core on Marketplaces
Besides the three deployment options above, a cloud image deployment lets you launch a pre-configured MetaDefender Core instance directly from the AWS (MetaDefender Core AMI), Azure, or GCP Marketplace for fast testing and PoC, giving you a ready baseline to harden into production.
MetaDefender Core Linux (BYOL AMI)
MetaDefender Core Windows
MetaDefender Core Linux (BYOL AMI)
MetaDefender Core Windows
MetaDefender Core Linux (BYOL AMI)
MetaDefender Core Windows
Recommended Resources
MetaDefender Core Datasheet
MetaDefender Core Product Brochure
MetaDefender Cluster Datasheet
MetaDefender Core Deployment Guide
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FAQs
It depends on your infrastructure control and compliance needs. Virtual Machines suit regulated or air-gapped environments, Containers fit cloud-native and DevSecOps teams, SaaS works best for fast integration with minimal ops overhead, and MetaDefender Cluster is ideal when you need an optimized, high-availability deployment without managing complex orchestration yourself.
MetaDefender Cluster is a purpose-built, optimized deployment option for MetaDefender Core that simplifies scaling and high availability. Unlike a self-managed Kubernetes or container setup, it's pre-configured for performance and resilience, reducing the operational overhead of running it yourself.
Yes. MetaDefender Cluster can be deployed as an optimized option within both Virtual Machine and Container environments, giving you the same high-availability and simplified scaling benefits regardless of the underlying infrastructure you've chosen.
Yes. MetaDefender Core is designed to operate in fully isolated, air-gapped environments. Both Virtual Machine and Container deployments support offline operations.
Both Virtual Machines and Containers give you customer-controlled data residency, meaning you decide where your data is processed and stored. SaaS, by contrast, depends on the specific plan and OPSWAT-managed infrastructure regions.
Yes. MetaDefender Core is available as a fully containerized deployment and supports Kubernetes services, including Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, Google GKE, Red Hat OpenShift.
MetaDefender Core is available as a pre-configured cloud image on all three major cloud marketplaces: AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform marketplace.
OPSWAT provides deployment guidance, documentation, and technical support tailored to your chosen model, whether that's VM, Containers with or without MetaDefender Cluster, or SaaS. Reach out through the contact form below for hands-on assistance.
