We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Azure Firewall Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Microsoft Security Suite solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We use the solution for application and server deployment."
"Great security and connectivity."
"Performance and stability are the key features of this product."
"Azure Firewall's feature that I have found most valuable is its scalability."
"The solution is stable."
"All its features are good. That's why we recommend it."
"The firewall policy control, URL content control, and antivirus are all the most valuable aspects. Threat prevention is as well quite good."
"The solution should be capable of self-scaling, which is one of the features we like about it."
"It is easy to install and does not require any plugins for your browser."
"The solution has improved our organization with its firewall."
"The solution is very easy to set up."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Firewall Manager is the testing and configuration."
"The tool's support is good."
"This solution is not mature when it comes to handling perimeter traffic like internet browsing."
"The solution doesn't offer the same capabilities of Fortinet. It should offer intrusion prevention and advance filtering. These are two very useful features offered on Fortinet that Azure lacks."
"For large organizations, a third-party firewall would be an added advantage, because it would have more advanced features, things that are not in Azure Firewall."
"Azure Firewall definitely needs a broader feature base. It should be able to go all the way up to layer 7 when looking at applications and things like that."
"It would be much easier if the on-premises, firewall rules, had some kind of export-import possibility in place, which is not the case right now."
"The tool needs to improve the onboarding and transition process for on-prem users."
"There should be better monitoring and logging. Currently, it is put in Sentinel. It should be more seamless and from the interface."
"There is room for further integration of AI into the system."
"We could do only one-way NAT-ing, where the traffic comes from outside to internal, to Azure, which is fine. However, when we actually do NAT-ed traffic to hit the firewall, that way is not working."
"The solution can improve the integration with open-source tools."
"The tool's security features need to improve. It needs also to include a monitoring system for logs. It is also complicated to find a query on the Azure firewall."
"There should be a simple one-click deployment for a firewall, rather than a set of setup instructions that include steps such as the DNS configuration, et cetera."
"The price is okay. This said, the solution is certainly expensive in comparison with other cloud services."
Azure Firewall is ranked 14th in Microsoft Security Suite with 33 reviews while Azure Firewall Manager is ranked 29th in Microsoft Security Suite with 5 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Azure Firewall Manager is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure Firewall Manager writes "Useful testing, simple configuration, and scales well". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Fortinet FortiGate, whereas Azure Firewall Manager is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Panorama, AWS Firewall Manager, FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF), Tufin Orchestration Suite and AlgoSec. See our Azure Firewall vs. Azure Firewall Manager report.
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