The pricing should be competitive. If you compare Azure's pricing to that of security solutions from AWS or GCP, theirs is much more competitive. Azure Firewall should also have similar competitive prices so that it is accessible to small- and medium-sized organizations.
It is expensive, especially with the premium functions. For one of the clients, it was very expensive. You have to use it more at an enterprise level, and there, it was not at an enterprise level. So, it was very costly, but security-wise, it was a very wise decision to use it that way.
Sr. Technical Consultant - Cloud Delivery at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
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2022-08-15T08:34:00Z
Aug 15, 2022
Azure Firewall comes with Azure native services. We did not buy any kind of license for it. Whether you have a free subscription or a pay-as-you-go model, you can deploy the Azure Firewall service. For any type of third-party service, like Palo Alto, or Fortinet, or Check Point, we would need to buy a subscription or licenses based on the users, but here it comes with the tenant when you purchase it. You are not going to spend extra money on it. The amount that you use will determine how much you pay. The pricing of Azure, compared to third-party vendors, is good because it's Azure-native. It's affordable.
Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2021-12-15T16:47:00Z
Dec 15, 2021
We purchased the premium version for our enterprise support and it was quite good. There isn't much of a pricing licensing model in Azure. Azure Firewalls operate on a pay-as-you-go model, similar to cloud services. So far, the best estimate we've found for our enterprise solution is around 90,000 INR rupees in India. So that's what we discovered. And because we are using three different subscriptions and managing it from a hub network, we divide it and it comes to around 30,000 in INR fee subscription. That is a suite comparison that we have also done with regard to the licenses of other products. And we discovered that it is also comparable in terms of pricing.
Senior Azure Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy Services
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2021-09-22T17:22:00Z
Sep 22, 2021
One of the benefits of Azure Firewall, while it is not mature yet, is that the total cost of ownership is much less than Palo Alto, Cisco, or any other brand. When people look at the cost of Azure Firewall, they think, "Oh, it's pretty expensive." But when you base it on the total cost of ownership over a period of time, you have to look at the scalability and the fact that, if you already have Microsoft support, it is included for Azure Firewall automatically. When you add in the integration and the management, it comes out to much less than virtual appliances.
Senior Security Operations and Cyber Risk Analyst at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
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2021-08-17T13:11:00Z
Aug 17, 2021
The licensing module is good. Pricing is one of the reasons we switched to this solution. For smaller businesses, they could probably put one or two features from premium into the regular standard versions. For example, that URL filtering is a pain point for many customers. If they could find a way to scale down that URL and the IPs feature to include it in the standard version, then that would allow them to get more traction and more customers from the small to medium-sized business perspective.
Technical Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
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2021-05-26T13:29:00Z
May 26, 2021
Azure Firewall is quite an expensive product. It can be challenging to work out the price as the fee varies depending on the amount of data that is run with the solution. Only the built-in usage level incurs licensing fees. There are no additional ones.
Azure Firewall is more expensive. If Microsoft can make Azure Firewall cheaper, I can see that all clients will think of using it. One client used FortiGate because it is much cheaper. Some clients ask me for Cisco, but in the cloud estimate, I found its cost is the same as Azure Firewall.
I'm not sure of the exact pricing, however, I do believe it is less expensive than Fortigate. For Fortinet, we pay around $5,000 per year. It offers more, however. It, for example, also improves the intrusion detection system. We bought a Fortinet appliance two years ago and Azure Firewall didn't exist at the time.
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The pricing could be improved.
The pricing should be competitive. If you compare Azure's pricing to that of security solutions from AWS or GCP, theirs is much more competitive. Azure Firewall should also have similar competitive prices so that it is accessible to small- and medium-sized organizations.
It is expensive, especially with the premium functions. For one of the clients, it was very expensive. You have to use it more at an enterprise level, and there, it was not at an enterprise level. So, it was very costly, but security-wise, it was a very wise decision to use it that way.
Azure Firewall comes with Azure native services. We did not buy any kind of license for it. Whether you have a free subscription or a pay-as-you-go model, you can deploy the Azure Firewall service. For any type of third-party service, like Palo Alto, or Fortinet, or Check Point, we would need to buy a subscription or licenses based on the users, but here it comes with the tenant when you purchase it. You are not going to spend extra money on it. The amount that you use will determine how much you pay. The pricing of Azure, compared to third-party vendors, is good because it's Azure-native. It's affordable.
The solution is cheaper than other brands. My company has an enterprise contract and we finally got a good price with Azure.
The price is okay. Microsoft even gives a discount nowadays.
Azure's cost-effectiveness is its major advantage.
We purchased the premium version for our enterprise support and it was quite good. There isn't much of a pricing licensing model in Azure. Azure Firewalls operate on a pay-as-you-go model, similar to cloud services. So far, the best estimate we've found for our enterprise solution is around 90,000 INR rupees in India. So that's what we discovered. And because we are using three different subscriptions and managing it from a hub network, we divide it and it comes to around 30,000 in INR fee subscription. That is a suite comparison that we have also done with regard to the licenses of other products. And we discovered that it is also comparable in terms of pricing.
One of the benefits of Azure Firewall, while it is not mature yet, is that the total cost of ownership is much less than Palo Alto, Cisco, or any other brand. When people look at the cost of Azure Firewall, they think, "Oh, it's pretty expensive." But when you base it on the total cost of ownership over a period of time, you have to look at the scalability and the fact that, if you already have Microsoft support, it is included for Azure Firewall automatically. When you add in the integration and the management, it comes out to much less than virtual appliances.
The licensing module is good. Pricing is one of the reasons we switched to this solution. For smaller businesses, they could probably put one or two features from premium into the regular standard versions. For example, that URL filtering is a pain point for many customers. If they could find a way to scale down that URL and the IPs feature to include it in the standard version, then that would allow them to get more traction and more customers from the small to medium-sized business perspective.
Azure Firewall is quite an expensive product. It can be challenging to work out the price as the fee varies depending on the amount of data that is run with the solution. Only the built-in usage level incurs licensing fees. There are no additional ones.
Azure Firewall is more expensive. If Microsoft can make Azure Firewall cheaper, I can see that all clients will think of using it. One client used FortiGate because it is much cheaper. Some clients ask me for Cisco, but in the cloud estimate, I found its cost is the same as Azure Firewall.
I'm not sure of the exact pricing, however, I do believe it is less expensive than Fortigate. For Fortinet, we pay around $5,000 per year. It offers more, however. It, for example, also improves the intrusion detection system. We bought a Fortinet appliance two years ago and Azure Firewall didn't exist at the time.
Unfortunately, I don't handle the finances or payments for the solution, so I can't compare to others.