New Features - Cloud NGFW for Azure - December 2025

Cloud NGFW for Azure now supports deployment in the New Zealand North region to address data residency requirements and reduce latency for organizations operating in the Asia-Pacific region. Organizations with operations in New Zealand face challenges meeting local data sovereignty regulations and delivering optimal performance to users when security infrastructure resides in distant regions. With New Zealand North region support, you can now deploy Cloud NGFW closer to your Azure workloads and users in this geography, ensuring compliance with data residency requirements while reducing network latency.

This regional expansion allows you to maintain consistent security policies across your global Azure infrastructure while keeping traffic inspection and security functions within the New Zealand jurisdiction. You can now protect your Azure workloads with the same advanced threat prevention capabilities available in other regions, but with the added benefit of local data processing and reduced round-trip times for your Asia-Pacific users.

For more information, see Cloud NGFW for Azure Supported Regions.