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Cloud NGFW for Azure Pricing

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Cloud NGFW for Azure Pricing

Cloud NGFW for Azure pricing.
Pay-As-You-Go
Cloud NGFW is available as a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) subscription in the Azure Marketplace. With this model, you pay only for what you use each month, and also enjoy Azure Marketplace benefits such as consolidated billing and credit toward an organization’s Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC).
You pay an hourly rate for each Cloud NGFW resource. You also pay for the amount of traffic, billed by the gigabyte, processed by the NGFW resource. Additionally, you pay an hourly rate and for the amount of traffic processed by your Cloud NGFW resource when you configure security services add-ons (such as Threat Prevention, Advanced URL Filtering, DNS Security, or WildFire®) or the centralized management add-on (Panorama management).
Credit Pricing Model
You can procure and associate Cloud NGFW for Azure Credits to your tenant by paying an upfront cost for a long-term contract from a one-year to a five-year time frame. You can procure these credits directly from Azure Marketplace or at a private price from Palo Alto Networks or its partners. By purchasing credits you can also take advantage of Azure Marketplace benefits such as consolidated billing, MACC committed consumptions and automated renewals. Cloud NGFW credits allow you to consume Cloud NGFW resources in your tenant at a lower cost up to a specific capacity until your contract expires. See Cloud NGFW Credits Management and Distribution for more information on how to manage and distribute credits.
If your average consumption per month exceeds the purchased credits, overages apply at PAYG rates.
If you add Cloud NGFW credits during a free-trial period, your contract begins immediately and overrides the free trial.
Use the Cloud NGFW for Azure pricing estimator to help you determine Azure pricing for your Cloud NGFW tenant.
Metering and Billing
Cloud NGFW consumption translates to PAYG hourly pricing or as Cloud NGFW credits as described in the tables below.

Base NGFW Resource Consumption

You pay an hourly rate for each Cloud NGFW resource. You also pay for the amount of traffic, billed by the gigabyte, processed by the NGFW resource.
DimensionPrice (Per Hour)Price (Per GB)Equivalent Cloud NGFW Credits
Base NGFW Resource Usage$1.25104.17
Traffic Secured per GB per Tenant$0.0161.33
Add-ons$0.12 per 10 Cloud NGFW CreditsSee below for specific billing information for each add-on.
Azure Networking Charges$0.010 cents per GB
Cloud NGFW for Azure bills the Egress usage (inbound, outbound, and east-west traffic) under Azure Networking charges dimension, and then the Azure Marketplace receives the consumption details. Azure virtual network pricing determines these charges. For more information, see Virtual Network Pricing.
Each NGFW resource you deploy meters usage hours. Traffic is metered across all NGFW resources deployed in your Cloud NGFW tenant.

Cloud-Delivered Security Services (CDSS) Consumption

Cloud NGFW for Azure bills the usages of these security services using the add-ons dimension. Cloud NGFW for Azure measures usage in $/hour and $/GB as detailed in the following table.
Advanced Threat Prevention Add-OnPrice (Per Hour)Price (Per GB)Equivalent Cloud NGFW Credits
Usage Hour*$0.37531.25
Traffic Secured$0.005
Advanced URL Filtering Add-OnPrice (Per Hour)Price (Per GB)Equivalent Cloud NGFW Credits
Usage Hour*$0.37531.25
Traffic Secured$0.005
Advanced WildFire Add-OnPrice (Per Hour)Price (Per GB)Equivalent Cloud NGFW Credits
Usage Hour*$0.37531.25
Traffic Secured$0.005
DNS Security Add-OnPrice (Per Hour)Price (Per GB)Equivalent Cloud NGFW Credits
Usage Hour*$0.25020.83
Traffic Secured$0.0030.27
WildFire Add-OnPrice (Per Hour)Price (Per GB)Equivalent Cloud NGFW Credits
Usage Hour*$0.25020.83
Traffic Secured$0.0030.27
*Usage hour is metered on each NGFW resource with CDSS add-ons enabled.

Centralized Management Add-On

You can use a Panorama virtual appliance to manage policy rules in your Cloud NGFW tenant. Centralized management add-on consumption is metered on each NGFW resource for each hour you have associated with a Panorama appliance and for the amount of traffic processed by that NGFW. The rate you’re charged for the traffic also depends on the aggregate traffic processed by all NGFWs in the tenant during the month (referred to as tiered traffic pricing).
You don't pay for additional device licenses for managing policy rules in Cloud NGFW resources. Panorama does not count these NGFW resources against its managed device license count.
Traffic Secured
Price per Hour
Price per GBEquivalent Cloud NGFW Credits
Usage Hour$0.25020.83
Traffic Secured
$0.0010.05

Azure Networking Charges

Palo Alto Networks incurs the VNet peering costs associated with the network interfaces used to expose the Cloud NGFW Resource in the customer's subscription. The customer incurs these costs based on the Azure virtual network peering pricing.

Migrate to the New Pricing Plan

Complete the following procedure to migrate your existing Cloud NGFW for Azure resources to the new pricing plan (described above).
Complete the following steps, regardless of the payment mode (PAYG or Private Contract), to take advantage of the new pricing option.
Complete this procedure on each Cloud NGFW for Azure firewall.
  1. Log in to the Azure portal.
  2. Select your Cloud NGFW for Azure firewall deployed in your tenant and navigate to the Overview page.
  3. Click Change Plan.
  4. Select the new pricing plan. The new pricing plan does not have tiered pricing based on the amount of traffic secured.
  5. Click Change Plan to confirm.
  6. You can verify the plan change on the firewall Overview page. The Plan ID will state cloud-ngfw-payg.
    Moving to the new pricing plan requires no additional actions after completing the above procedure.