AZ558072 - Generally Available: Draft & Deploy on Azure Firewall

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Published

Mar 3, 2026

Status

Launched

Timeline

  • March 2026
    General Availability

Product

Azure Firewall

Tag

Features
Security
Services

Category

Networking
Security

Description

The new Draft & Deploy feature for Azure Firewall Policy introduces a streamlined, two-phase approach to managing firewall policies, significantly reducing deployment time and disruption. Traditionally, any policy update would trigger a full deployment of both the policy and the attached firewall, taking 2–4 minutes per change.   

With Draft & Deploy, users can collaboratively make multiple changes in a draft version cloned from the current policy without affecting the live environment. Once finalized, all changes can be deployed at once, replacing the existing policy.  

Learn more.