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Azure Firewall pros and cons

Vendor: Microsoft
3.8 out of 5

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PROS

Azure Firewall offers excellent stability and performance, making it reliable for businesses.
It provides robust security features, such as threat intelligence, DDoS protection, and traffic filtering.
Azure Firewall is highly scalable and can automatically adjust resources as needed.
It integrates seamlessly with Azure platform, enhancing security and ease of management.
Azure Firewall is cost-effective, offering comprehensive features at an economical price.

CONS

Azure Firewall lacks advanced features like intrusion prevention and advanced filtering, which are offered by competitors like Fortinet.
Azure Firewall's scalability and performance vary by region, with some regions experiencing slower speeds. It needs universal performance improvements across all regions.
Pricing is a significant concern as Azure Firewall is seen as expensive compared to other firewalls, with improvements needed in cost competitiveness.
Azure Firewall offers limited support for advanced identification and protection features such as TLS inspection, app ID, and user ID, lacking comprehensive security coverage.
Azure Firewall's limited feature set compared to competitors, like Check Point or Fortinet, includes lack of built-in VPN capabilities and needs further integration of artificial intelligence.
 

Azure Firewall Pros review quotes

AD
Technical Solution Architect at liwa
Oct 28, 2025
With Azure Firewall on the cloud, you just need to subscribe to the firewall, configure it, and it will help you protect your environment.
Rashedul Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at cimsolutions
May 22, 2025
Azure Firewall simplifies everything, securing our APIs and systems so that suspicious IPs do not access our sophisticated systems.
Dhammika Weerakoon - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Area Lead at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees
Oct 28, 2025
Azure Firewall includes all standard next-generation firewall features with threat intelligence-based filtering.
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AnvarSadique - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Architect at GMS INC
Mar 24, 2025
Azure Firewall is integrated well with Microsoft ecosystem.
Devendiran Kandan - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 19, 2025
The most valuable features of Azure Firewall for me are its URL-based internet access control and DDoS protection for incoming traffic.
HA
Senior Manager, Information Security at NetSol Technologies Inc.
Feb 24, 2025
There is not a single feature or single product that can ensure security.
Charan Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Technology at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Nov 1, 2023
It's helped us improve our security posture.
AB
Cybersecurity Engineer at AXSYS
Nov 15, 2024
I like that you can deploy the policies separately from the firewall.
Nawaz Ahmed. - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Project Manager at Thoucentric
Oct 21, 2024
The SIEM that Azure Firewall provides us is very robust.
Hossein Rouhani - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Software Engineer at Mondoo
Jul 16, 2024
The product's value to my company stems from its ability to secure my organization.
 

Azure Firewall Cons review quotes

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Technical Solution Architect at liwa
Oct 28, 2025
The standard functionality for API Management is at a zero level, and then the next level is one. The difference between zero and one is very huge.
Rashedul Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at cimsolutions
May 22, 2025
Diagnosing blocked traffic was initially challenging because we didn't know how to diagnose and integrate Azure Firewall with other Azure services for storing logs in Log Analytics.
Dhammika Weerakoon - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Area Lead at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees
Oct 28, 2025
Azure Firewall is a good tool, though the price is higher compared to competing products.
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AnvarSadique - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Architect at GMS INC
Mar 24, 2025
In terms of improvements, I think the price could be a concern as Azure services are often more expensive compared to other firewalls.
Devendiran Kandan - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 19, 2025
In my experience, Azure Firewall is quite expensive, with a high cost. I would rate its pricing a two out of ten.
HA
Senior Manager, Information Security at NetSol Technologies Inc.
Feb 24, 2025
When we started deploying the solution, it was not a mature product at times.
Charan Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Technology at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Nov 1, 2023
It's a little heavy compared to a FortiGate or other firewalls.
AB
Cybersecurity Engineer at AXSYS
Nov 15, 2024
One thing that would help engineers adopt it better is the documentation.
Nawaz Ahmed. - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Project Manager at Thoucentric
Oct 21, 2024
The threat intelligence aspect of this particular firewall is not at par with other providers.
Hossein Rouhani - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Software Engineer at Mondoo
Jul 16, 2024
Maybe one of the things in the tool where improvements are needed as there are some shortcomings consist of Azure Firewall Manager.