Azure Firewall

We continue to be amazed by the adoption, interest, positive feedback, and the breadth of use cases customers are finding for our service.

To ensure customers running on Azure are protected against ransomware attacks, Microsoft has invested heavily in Azure security and has provided customers with the security controls needed to protect their Azure cloud workloads.

Azure Firewall supports 30 Gbps which is sufficient to meet current throughput demands for many of our customers.

With the accelerated pace of digital transformation since the COVID-19 pandemic breakthrough, organizations continuously look to migrate their workloads to the cloud and to ensure their workloads are secure.

We continue to be amazed by the adoption, interest, positive feedback, and the breadth of use cases customers are finding for our service. Today, we are excited to share several new Azure Firewall Premium capabilities based on your feedback.

Today, we are announcing new Azure Firewall capabilities as well as updates for August 2021 including new Azure Firewall supported regions, auto-generated self-signed certificates for Azure Firewall Premium SKU, and more.

Following the preview release announced in February 2021, we are announcing the general availability release of Azure Firewall Premium. Key features in this release include: TLS Inspection, IDPS, Web Categories, and URL Filtering.

Custom DNS, DNS proxy, and FQDN filtering in network rules (for non-HTTP/S and non-MSSQL protocols) in Azure Firewall are now generally available. In this blog, we also share an example use-case on using DNS proxy with Private Link.

Organizations including ASOS, Keiser University, and Manulife trust and build services on Azure to run their business-critical workloads and support their customers across the world. It’s customers such as these that fuel our desire to innovate.

We are pleased to announce several new Azure Firewall features that allow your organization to have more customization, improve security, and ease your management experience.

To two new key features in Azure Firewall, forced tunneling and SQL, FQDN filtering, are now generally available. Additionally, we increased the limit for multiple public IP addresses from 100 to 250 for both Destination Network Address Translation (DNAT) and Source Network Address Translation (SNAT).

Work from home policies require many IT organizations to address fundamental changes in capacity, network, security, and governance.