What's the difference between an NSG and Azure Firewall ?

Dragan Stojkoski 61 Reputation points
2023-01-25T11:46:14.6066667+00:00

What's the difference? They both look the same and can have same rules?

Azure Virtual Network
Azure Virtual Network
An Azure networking service that is used to provision private networks and optionally to connect to on-premises datacenters.
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  1. Martin Dimovski 1,591 Reputation points MVP
    2023-01-25T11:56:12.0866667+00:00

    Hi,

    Thank you for posting the question to the Q&A forum.

    Unlike Azure Firewall, which monitors all traffic for workloads, NSG is commonly deployed for individual vNets, subnets, and network interfaces for virtual machines to refine traffic. It does so by activating a rule (allow or deny) or Access Control List (ACL), which allows or denies traffic to Azure resources.

    You can find more about NSG here : [https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/network-security-groups-overview

    You can find more about Azure Firewall here: [https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-azure-firewall/

    I hope the above information can help you.

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