News: Azure Premium Firewall now generally available.

20th July 2021, The Azure Premium Firewall Service available in Preview since February 2021 is now GA.

Microsoft announced the General availability of the premium version of the standard PaaS Azure Firewall Service. This offers several features not available to the standard version and hopefully should enable more organisations to leverage the Azure native tools rather than relying on third party NVAs.

Key features include:

• TLS (Transport Layer Security) Inspection
• IDPS (Intrusion Detection and & Prevention Service)
• Web Categorisation
• URL Filtering

For users who are currently using the standard version there is an option to upgrade in place. For everyone else you can create a new Premium Firewall and connect it to any existing policies you may have.

Apparently the new service is roughly 40% more than the standard Azure firewall service.

For more information please see the Microsoft Announcement.