What is a primary benefit of Azure Firewall?

Azure Firewall is a cloud-native, intelligent network firewall security service that provides stateful, centralized traffic filtering. "Stateful" means it tracks the state of active connections, allowing legitimate return traffic. "Centralized" means it can protect multiple Azure Virtual Networks and subscriptions from a single management point, simplifying security policy enforcement. Automating virtual machine scaling is a function of Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Enabling point-in-time recovery is a feature of services like Azure Backup or Azure SQL Database. Replicating secrets across regions is a capability of Azure Key Vault.