Azure Firewall Scalability

Charan Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Technology at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The solution is pretty scalable.  You can have multiple heavy workloads. 

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Nawaz Ahmed. - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Project Manager at Thoucentric

It's very much scalable. It's deployed across multiple locations globally, and the total number of users is about 5,000.

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Rene Schouten. - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Architect at Stichting Inlichtingenbureau

It's very scalable because it's a PaaS solution. If you have only one event or a lot of events, it scales.

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Senior Cloud Architect at Kyndryl

The product isn't scalable per se. They're used in very minimal and milder situations which do not challenge their bandwidth and processing capabilities.

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Ricardo S. - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It is a good solution in terms of scaling. If we need to support more traffic or more bandwidth, the solution grows automatically. It's configured to grow.

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MB
Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It is auto-scalable and highly available.

The number of people using this solution in our organization is quite limited as it is restricted as of now. We currently have three people who are working with this solution.

We may get one or two people on board, but for the time being it is restricted because it is a security device and we don't want to expose much of the admin privileges to the users or administrators, which is why it is restricted.

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JJ
Group Cloud Competency Center Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

Scalability is a reason why we choose a cloud service like Azure Firewall. It can scale depending on the increase in your real traffic. In our case, we never reached the 20-gigabyte throughput limit, but we can have more instances in case the application or the network traffic grows. So, it can be scaled, and we don't need to take too much care of Azure capacity planning. 

The Infra team is a direct user of this firewall. They take care of its day-to-day management. There are, at the most, 10 people on this team. They build the pipeline, monitor its performance, and based on the service requests, add and modify the JSON templates. In terms of applications, there are maybe hundreds of applications that rely on the service from Azure Firewall. We are implementing Azure Firewall worldwide. So, our footprint is extending.

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Prateek Agarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam

It is scalable according to your application requirements.

We have more than 1000 users, mainly in India.

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Andrey Grozdev - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Consultant at Thobey

At my previous workplace, we extensively deployed Azure Firewall with four units, effectively serving the security needs of a sizable user base exceeding a thousand individuals.

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BW
Network Administrator at a government with 201-500 employees

Azure Firewall wasn't scalable at all, but it did what it's supposed to do.

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KI
Manager - Network & Security at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We are currently exploring the scalability and availability. It has a number of extensions available to increase the bandwidth, throughput, scale-up, and scale-out points.

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GT
Network Security Engineer at Diyar United Company

This is a firewall that I implement for my SMB customers. For example, one of my recent deployments was to a user base of between 300 and 500 people. In fact, it was their DR site, so there was no regular user traffic. The real-time users enter that site typically for maintenance.

 My enterprise clients normally choose to implement SonicWall NSV.

I have not had the opportunity to fully test the scalability but I can't see any limitations to it at this time.

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BalamuruganSarangapani - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Technical Consultant - Cloud Delivery at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

It should be scalable. That has to do with the backend and Azure takes care of all of that. We have 300 to 400 users.

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TZ
Senior Azure Solution Architect at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

Another big benefit of Azure Firewall is the scalability. You can grow it to meet the load of traffic. With a virtual appliance-based solution from Palo Alto or Cisco, you need to add another one to scale.

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Head of IT at NetRefer

Azure uses an on-premises environment. I wouldn't use it for scalability purposes. In terms of scalability, our organization is much more inclined towards Fortinet's Fortigate virtual appliance rather than the Azure Firewall.

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DL
Technical Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The solution should be capable of self-scaling, which is one of the features we like about it. We have not encountered any issues with this. 

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Hammad Naeem - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Team Lead at Speridian Technologies

The solution is scalable and doesn't take more than five minutes to scale. 

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RH
Senior Security Operations and Cyber Risk Analyst at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

They need to find a way to scale it out or scale it up a bit more. The scalability, it's okay, but it needs a lot more improvement. For a regular customer that's utilizing it, that's good, but for large enterprise companies, it is not as good.

The industry is telecoms. We have millions of customers. For that type of environment, they need better and more scalability.

We haven't totally assessed the premium version to see if the new features offer greater scalability. 

We utilize it across the cloud estate. We plan to expand our subscriptions. Most definitely, we will increase our usage.

Recently, we transitioned to the premium version, which will be extended to the other subscription once it has been rolled out across 32 countries, and with more instances, it will be rolled out across various continents.

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JA
Freelance Consultant at The Future Group

It is scalable. It was used across multiple regions. One of them had about 3,000 users, and the other one had about 5,000 users.

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DJ
Cloud Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I can't say about scalability, but we have 20,000 employees.

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MA
Cyber Security architect at Avanade

It is scalable. 

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CF
Cloud Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution's scalability is great. 

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RK
Senior Security Analyst at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

There may be issues with the scalability, but I haven't tested it yet. When you test it in preview mode it's only around 3 to 3.5 Gbps.

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DL
Network Engineer at a leisure / travel company with 10,001+ employees

We have thousands of people using it.

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SV
Cloud Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

The solution is autoscalable. It scales based on your deployment and/or based on your loads, due to the fact that it's a managed service. A company that expects to expand shouldn't have a problem scaling with this solution.

We have about 50-100 users on the solution currently. We may increase usage in the future.

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VT
IT Senior Architect, Infrastructure and Cloud Solutions at a government with 501-1,000 employees

The solution is scalable.

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VJ
CEO at Foresight Cyber Ltd

The scalability is very good and you don't have to think about sizing, as in the case of a traditional firewall where you have to think about the throughput. With Azure Firewall, it scales automatically.

We have customers ranging in size from small to enterprise-level organizations. One of them is a large company with 40,000 users on Azure Firewall.

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MA
Senior System Engineer at Effvision

It is scalable. We have around 200 users, and we have around 10 members for maintenance.

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SP
Cloud Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We don't have to bother about scalability at all as Microsoft fixes it. It's much simpler and the reason why I like it.

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