Unlock the power of Cloud NGFW on Azure effortlessly! Dive into a streamlined solution—automating your end-to-end lab creation with Azure VWAN and Spoke VNets. Seamlessly connect workloads to the Hub, while effortlessly integrating Cloud NGFW into Azure Virtual WAN. Perfect for Palo Alto Field Teams and Partners eager to independently build and showcase the transformative benefits of Cloud NGFW for Azure.  

This guide helps you get started using Azure CLI to deploy and configure Cloud NGFW objects and constructs in Azure.

Cloud NGFW for Azure is a Firewall as a service jointly offered by Palo Alto Networks and Microsoft Azure. The below list includes the required steps to get started with the Cloud NGFW. 

Cloud NGFW is the industry’s only machine learning (ML)-powered NGFW delivered as a cloud-native service on Azure. With Cloud NGFW, you can run more apps securely at cloud speed and cloud scale with an actual cloud-native experience. There is no trade-off between cloud agility and sophisticated, multi-layered security. You get to experience the best of both worlds with natively integrated network security delivered as a service on Azure.   This guide outlines the architecture of the Cloud NGFW from a high-availability (HA) and resiliency point of view. The document covers design considerations applied to the Cloud NGFW to ensure there's no single point of failure in any of the underlying service components. It also covers the approach taken with respect to zonal redundancy protecting from Azure infrastructure outages. Lastly, the guide lists available Azure services and strategies aimed at providing regional disaster recovery.

Cloud NGFW is the industry’s only machine learning (ML)-powered NGFW delivered as a cloud-native service on Azure. With Cloud NGFW, you can run more apps securely at cloud speed and cloud-scale with an actual cloud-native experience. There is no trade-off between cloud agility and sophisticated, multi-layered security. You get to experience the best of both worlds with natively integrated network security delivered as a service on Azure.   This guide explains how to configure and integrate Cloud NGFW into  Azure Virtual Network(VNet) and Azure Virtual WAN(VWAN) infrastructure, enabling the users to utilize the benefits of Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewall as a service. The sections in the document provide details about the architecture and various components of this service. This document also provides guidance on how to set up and configure Cloud NGFW  using a simplified configuration workflow and explains how to route your application/spoke traffic through Cloud NGFW.

Cloud NGFW for Azure is a managed cloud-native next-generation firewall service delivered by Palo Alto Networks on the Azure platform. Cloud NGFW for Azure protects your Azure workloads by offering best-in-class security with the ease of use of a cloud native service.   Learn more in the PDF attached.