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Azure Firewall Pros and Cons: Top Advantages and Disadvantages

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Users find Azure Firewall's security protection effective and reliable, enhancing both security and productivity seamlessly. (2 mentions)

Users find Azure Firewall's interface easy to use, leveraging their Windows Services familiarity for enhanced security and productivity. (1 mentions)

Users appreciate the easy setup of Azure Firewall, particularly with the hub and spoke model configuration. (1 mentions)

Users find Azure Firewall's interface easy to understand and adapt, enhancing security and productivity seamlessly. (1 mentions)

Users find Azure Firewall's high system requirements burdensome, affecting performance and loading times significantly. (1 mentions)

Users often find the slow performance of Azure Firewall frustrating, impacting their overall experience with the product. (1 mentions)

Top Pros or Advantages of Azure Firewall

1. Security Protection

Users find Azure Firewall's security protection effective and reliable, enhancing both security and productivity seamlessly.

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Md A.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4.0/5

"MS Security great for everyone"

What do you like about Azure Firewall?

Microsoft security is the best option for everyone according to me, because from 2012 till now I'm using this primary as well as secondary account, ev

Verified User

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.0/5

"Working with MS Security is easya s we are mostly working in Windows envirnment."

What do you like about Azure Firewall?

It is easy to understand & adapt because we are familiar with Windows Services & it provides helps us make it more secure & productive.

2. Ease of Use

Users find Azure Firewall's interface easy to use, leveraging their Windows Services familiarity for enhanced security and productivity.

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Verified User

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.0/5

"Working with MS Security is easya s we are mostly working in Windows envirnment."

What do you like about Azure Firewall?

It is easy to understand & adapt because we are familiar with Windows Services & it provides helps us make it more secure & productive.

3. Easy Setup

Users appreciate the easy setup of Azure Firewall, particularly with the hub and spoke model configuration.

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Athithanambi A.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Very good gateway for the traffice"

What do you like about Azure Firewall?

Esay to configure with hub and spoke model.

4. Helpful

Users find Azure Firewall's interface easy to understand and adapt, enhancing security and productivity seamlessly.

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Verified User

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.0/5

"Working with MS Security is easya s we are mostly working in Windows envirnment."

What do you like about Azure Firewall?

It is easy to understand & adapt because we are familiar with Windows Services & it provides helps us make it more secure & productive.

Top Cons or Disadvantages of Azure Firewall

1. High System Requirements

Users find Azure Firewall's high system requirements burdensome, affecting performance and loading times significantly.

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Md A.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4.0/5

"MS Security great for everyone"

What do you dislike about Azure Firewall?

There is many things 1. By default auto update 2. Account Recovery process 3. It is very heavy to loading. 4. Every MS product getting heavy memor

2. Slow Performance

Users often find the slow performance of Azure Firewall frustrating, impacting their overall experience with the product.

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Md A.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4.0/5

"MS Security great for everyone"

What do you dislike about Azure Firewall?

There is many things 1. By default auto update 2. Account Recovery process 3. It is very heavy to loading. 4. Every MS product getting heavy memor

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kiran p.

System Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/17/2024

"Azure Firewall: Cloud-Native Network Security for Seamless Protection"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Firewall?

It is designed specifically for the Azure cloud environment, it's offering a seamless and integrated solution for securing resources within Azure. It can scale horizontally to accommodate increasing network traffic, making it suitable for small and large deployments. Users can configure Azure Firewall to use threat intelligence feeds, enhancing security by blocking traffic to and from known malicious IP addresses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Firewall?

It provides a comprehensive set of features, organizations with highly specialized or unique requirements may find certain customization limitations. It's crucial to assess whether the service meets specific customization needs. Depending on the level of traffic and specific configurations, the costs associated with Azure Firewall usage can accumulate. Cost is depends on how many services accessed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?

Azure Firewall addresses key challenges in cloud network security, benefiting me by providing centralized security management, controlling outbound traffic, filtering based on applications and threat intelligence, ensuring high availability, and seamlessly integrating with Azure services. This results in improved security, compliance, and operational efficiency for organizations leveraging Azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Athithanambi A.

DevOps Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/20/2024

"Very good gateway for the traffice"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Firewall?

Esay to configure with hub and spoke model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Firewall?

No dislike, coset is more to use in small company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sneha C.

Cloud Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/15/2024

"Realtime Batman -Azure firewall"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Firewall?

It helped me alot in my work and made easier to investigate the issue from basics.

After learning this, I found that day today useful thing. Firewall is everywhere present, that may cause blocking in your things from downloading or network as well. After learning this you will get to know how to avoid these issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Firewall?

While learning it feels some clumsy. But if you keep patience, you will learn it in very good way. Time taking Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Paras B.

Senior Technical Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/31/2024

"Azure Firewall is a great cloud native firewall to protect the Azure infra"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Firewall?

Azure Firewall is easy to set up and has default WAF enabled. I have multiple client environments where I have set up the Azure Firewall and till now I got no issues in them. It's a next level security service that secures the azure environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Firewall?

We can not whitelist FQDN and domain names in azure Firewall. This is the only drawback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shekh A.

Information Technology Team Lead

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/5/2024

"Secure your business"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Firewall?

WAF is the best thing happened to AZURE FIREWALL helps in preventing SQL INJECTION and cross site scripting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Firewall?

Configuring the Azure Firewall is a bit tricky for new comers, they should have made it easy or provided a run book and some kind of instruction manual for first time users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sumit P.

Packaged App Development Associate

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/7/2024

"Azure Firewall is very user friendly and cost efficient"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Firewall?

Azure Firewall is used to protect company assets by securing our network and blocking malicious traffic from entering our closed network Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Firewall?

The total number of active connections per virtual machine is 250k. The total limit per firewall is the virtual machine connection limit (250k) x the number of virtual machines in the firewall backend pool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Uday P.

Information Technology Business Analyst

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/2/2024

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Azure Firewall"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Firewall?

It is making safer to the cloud storage and is extensively useful. When user logs into the account then it will provides the security of the cloud account and user could feels that he is prevented from the threat as well. Implementation is extensively easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Firewall?

I have not focused on the dislikes of Azure Firewall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aakash N.

System Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/25/2023

"This the Most relient firewall or security service on any cloud platform i have ever seen."

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Firewall?

This is so handy to operate and most importantly it is very secure and easy to apply, moreover it provide a very fast and reliable customer support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Firewall?

Nothing is there that is considered to be a con. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sayantica G.

Junior Security Analyst

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/21/2024

"Azure one tenant"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Firewall?

It is for all business purpose regarding small environment, medium or large. It has very good threat intelligance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Firewall?

It is cloud based. If it is also in on premise version or self managed data privacy ,then helpfull. For small entity you cant get all feature enble with basic price range. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.