Sophos offers two pricing options for XG Firewall on Azure: pay-as-you-go and bring-your-own-license. PAYG allows you to pay only what you use, with no minimum commitment and stop at any time. BYOL allows you to use your existing investment in XG Firewall. Find Server Protection on Microsoft Azure. Click Get your VM extension script. Then click Download Script. You’ll need an API token so that the script can find and access the installer. Sophos offers two pricing options for XG Firewall on Azure: pay-as-you-go and bring-your-own-license. PAYG allows you to pay only what you use, with no minimum commitment and stop at any time. BYOL allows you to use your existing investment in XG Firewall.
Businesses move to the Public Cloud for a variety of reasons, whether it’s flexibility, the ability to customize, or lower costs. That’s why Sophos XG Firewall has been available through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace for some time, offering pay-as-you-go (PAYG) and bring-your-own-license (BYOL) options, providing industry leading price-performance, and the ultimate in flexibility.
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Best value in price-performance on Azure
XG Firewall for PAYG delivers all features and functionality of XG Firewall on Azure (FullGuard License), including Network Protection, Web Protection, Email, and Web Server Protection modules – already installed and ready to go. And we’re pleased to announce we recently updated the template package for our Azure Marketplace offer of XG Firewall.
New PAYG pricing and recommended VM performance tiers
You now have complete flexibility to select any virtual machine series* for your XG Firewall, allowing you to fine-tune your virtual machine selection and compute costs to meet your exact requirements. Plus, our recommended Fsv2-series has been chosen to provide the best value in price-performance in the Azure portfolio based on the Azure Compute Unit (ACU) per vCPU.
| Recommended VM sizes | Performance | Price per hour** |
| Standard_F2s_v2 | Dev/Test (<50 users) | $0.575 |
| Standard_F4s_v2 | Small (50-200 users) | $1.15 |
| Standard_F8s_v2 | Medium (200-4000 users) | $2.30 |
| Standard_F16s_v2 | Large (400-1500 users) | $4.60 |
| Standard_F32s_v2 | Extra Large (1500 – 5000 users) | $9.20 |
| Standard_F64s_v2 | Enterprise (5000+ users) | $18.40 |
*Virtual machine series exceptions A0, A1, B1 and B1ms
** Prices listed are in U.S. dollars. You can find pricing in your local currency by using the Azure Pricing Calculator
In the same update, your current PAYG pricing for new and existing XG Firewall Azure VMs may change dependent on the country where you purchase Azure services. From March 10, 2020 Sophos will use standardized currency exchange rates to localize your pricing based on the U.S. dollar pricing in the table above. This will not affect services currently payed for in US Dollars. Microsoft will notify you of any changes to pricing affecting your bill prior to the correction.
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Now sell XG Firewall in more regions than ever
Providing our partners with greater flexibility will also extend to licensing in this update, with two major improvements to PAYG and BYOL options.
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PAYG is now available in 12 additional regions:
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BYOL availability grows from 90, to all 141 Azure enabled countries – a huge expansion to help you become more competitive than ever selling Sophos XG Firewall on Azure. See all 51 new countries below:
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We hope this important update enables you to be more competitive as a Sophos Partner, and provide a service that meets the exact requirements of your customers’ who have already moved or are planning to move to Microsoft Azure.