Creating a new Azure Firewall

Azure Firewall allows us total control over our traffic. Besides controlling inbound traffic, with Azure Firewall, we can control outbound traffic as well.

Getting ready

Before we can create an Azure Firewall instance, we must prepare the subnet.

In order to create a new subnet for Azure Firewall, we must do the following:

1. Locate a virtual network that will be associated with Azure Firewall.
2. Select the Subnets option under settings and select the option to add new subnet, as shown in the following screenshot:

3. In the new blade, we must provide the name and address range. It's very important that the subnet is named AzureFirewallSubnet:

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