US Patent 10484331 Security appliance provisioning

A technology is provided for security appliance provisioning. In one example, a method includes providing a variety of types of physical security appliances in a service provider environment. A selection may be received identifying a selected security appliance from among the variety of types of physical security appliances for use in a customer virtual infrastructure within the service provider environment. The selected security appliance may be provisioned for use at an edge location of the customer virtual infrastructure. The selected security appliance may be configured to enforce a security policy defined for the customer virtual infrastructure.