Network Engineer

amigan_99

IT Professional

Albert Widjaja

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When you spin up a VNET on Azure, does that include firewalling provide a public IP address to NAT to and protection your servers against malicious traffic? Or does that cost extra? And how does this firewalling service compare to say a virtual Palo Alto Networks firewall?
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When you spin up a VNET on Azure, does that include firewalling provide a public IP address to NAT to and protection your servers against malicious traffic? Or does that cost extra? And how does this firewalling service compare to say a virtual Palo Alto Networks firewall?

Azure Firewall

Software firewalls, also known as host-based firewalls, provide a layer of software on one host that controls network traffic in and out of that single machine. Most operating systems now include firewall software, but many available software firewalls include central distribution, antivirus systems and disaster recovery.

Software Firewalls

Hardware-based firewalls provide more sophisticated protection for inbound and outbound traffic than the simple Windows software firewall or the basic NAT firewalls found in routers. These devices implement techniques such as stateful packet inspection, deep packet inspection, and content filtering; and may include built-in antivirus and anti-malware protection.

Hardware Firewalls

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying and managing applications and services through datacenters. It provides both platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) services and supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems. Cloud Services is a PaaS environment and can be used to create scalable applications and services; there are specific software development kits (SDKs) provided by Microsoft for Python, Java, Node.js and .NET. Azure also has file and storage services, data management, analytics and DNS services.