We performed a comparison between Akamai Ion and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Akamai is easy to use and very effective."
"We find it valuable because it is compatible with our existing Azure solution."
"We chose this solution in the first place because it has access to Layer 7. I can control the requests and the content, which I can access on my network if I want to even if it's forbidden access to other external resources. If I want to monitor, for example, traffic, and apply this rule on Layer 7, I can do so. This was our main goal when implementing this application. We wanted to take advantage of the Gateway capabilities."
"Using policies to link and manage these URL-based routing configurations is also valuable."
"The health probe is pretty good for your backend health. It tells you whether it's communicating and talking to the endpoint correctly. It is quite useful."
"I find Application Gateway’s WAF module valuable because it helps prevent layer 7 attacks."
"The solution has built-in rules that reduce alerts and are easy to configure."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the web application firewall (WAF)."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"The solution should provide more security for certificate-based services so that we can implement more security on that."
"The support can be improved when you are configuring the system rules. The Disaster Recovery feature can be added in the next release. The price of the solution can be reduced a bit."
"The support provided for the solution has certain shortcomings that need improvement, especially when it comes to the response time from the support team."
"The pricing of the solution could be improved. Right now, it's a bit expensive."
"It is a bit tricky to configure. You've got to have a very specific format to configure it. They should make it a little bit easier to configure. Mapping the certificates into it isn't easy, and it could be better. Currently, you've to write a bit of automation to pull certificates directly to HTTPS."
"The solution could improve by increasing the performance when doing updates. For example, if I change the certificate it can take 30 minutes. Other vendors do not have this type of problem."
"One of the challenges we faced was the solution does not support any other PCP protocols apart from HTTP and HTTPS."
"The pricing of the solution is a bit high. The solution should offer different pricing systems."
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Akamai Ion is ranked 15th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 1 review while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is ranked 4th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews. Akamai Ion is rated 7.0, while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Akamai Ion writes "Helps optimize the content delivery network, but doesn’t provide much flexibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway writes "High stability with built-in rules that reduce alerts and are easy to configure". Akamai Ion is most compared with NGINX Plus, whereas Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Citrix NetScaler, AWS WAF, Cloudflare Web Application Firewall and Azure Front Door.
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