Azure Firewall Premium includes advanced features not available in the Standard tier, such as enhanced URL filtering and web categories, TLS inspection, IDPS (intrusion detection and prevention system), and support for private certificate authorities. These enable more granular and secure traffic inspection and control.

Azure ExpressRoute provides dedicated private connections between on-premises infrastructure and Azure data centers, bypassing the public internet. This results in more predictable latency, higher reliability, and better security, making it ideal for mission-critical workloads.

The Software-defined network (SDN) connector allows FortiGate to dynamically pull metadata such as tags, IP addresses, and resource groups from Azure resources. This enables automatic policy updates based on dynamic IP changes, such as those of a Linux server in a protected subnet.