Fortinet FortiGate Next-Generation firewall technology delivers complete content and network protection by combining stateful inspection with a comprehensive suite of powerful security features. FortiGate creates a purpose-built Microsoft Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template to deploy and provision all of the resources for your FortiGate Next-Generation firewall in a single, coordinated operation to give you the most complete next-generation security functions. next-generation security functions. As you kick off the single instance deployment, you will be prompted to select Bring-Your-Own-License or hourly on-demand selection for licensing as well as product versions. It's easy.

FortiGate for Azure can be deployed for protecting following use cases:

Internet Gateway for ingress/egress security protection
Multi-cloud or multi-site connectivity
Inter-subnet among app-web-db tiered security within a VNET
Intra-VNETs classic VPN deployment
End-to-end protection for remote access

FortiGate delivers:

End-to-end security across the full attack surface in the cloud deployment
Top-rated security validated by third-party testing
Centralized management across physical, virtual, and cloud deployments


Fortinet FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall complements the base security on Microsoft Azure platform. With flexible Bring-Your-Own-License (BYOL) and hourly on-demand (PAYG) licensing option, it delivers complete content and network protection by combining stateful inspection with a comprehensive suite of powerful security features such as threat protection, application control, anti-malware, IPS, Web filtering and VPN along with advanced features to identify and mitigate complex security threats. The security-hardened FortiOS operating system is purpose-built for inspection and identification of malware.

As you start the deployment, you will be guided to select either BYOL or Pay as You Go hourly licensing selection together with FortiGate versions.

This template provides a base start for a single FortiGate instance. It configures the needed components and settings to deliver best in class security.

FortiGate Mapping to Azure Instance

CPU	Azure Instance Options	FortiGate License Cost*
1 vCPU	D1_v2, F1, F1s	$0.30/hr
2 vCPU	D2_v2, F2, F2s	$0.73/hr
4 vCPU	D3_v2, F4, F4s	$0.98/hr
8 vCPU	D4_v2, F8, F8s	$1.96/hr
16 vCPU	F16s	$2.74/hr

*Price is in addition to Azure compute charges.