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Azure Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAzure Firewall

by Microsoft

Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall

by Palo Alto Networks

Overall rating4.54.3
Review count2992
Ease of use8.98.5
Ease of setup8.78.4
Quality of support9.18.5
Meets requirements9.29.0
NPS65.38461551.086957
Small Business21.4%26.4%
Mid-Market46.4%29.7%
Enterprise32.1%44.0%
Total page views220339
Total LLM citations3931,215

Azure Firewall

Azure Firewall automatically scales with your usage during peak load or as your business grows, eliminating the need to predict and reserve capacity for peak usage.

Pros

  • Security Protection
  • Helpful
  • Ease of Use

Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall

Palo Alto Networks' VM-Series Virtual Firewall is the industry’s leading cloud security software, delivering the world’s most effective network security to any cloud or virtualized environment. It is a virtualized form factor of Palo Alto Networks' next-generation firewalls, built to protect your applications from zero-day threats, providing consistent security and easy deployment across all clouds and virtualized environments, including technologies from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, VMware, Cisco, KVM, Nutanix, OpenStack, and more.

Pros

  • Threat Protection
  • Features
  • Security
  • Protection
  • Deployment Ease
  • Ease of Use