We performed a comparison between Azure DDoS Protection and Azure Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Microsoft Security Suite solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This solution is the best option for us because we use a lot of Microsoft products. So, it is easy for us to deploy or integrate any features or products."
"Azure DDoS Protection offers superior protection against denial-of-service attacks."
"The most valuable feature of Azure DDoS Protection is that it performs well."
"The most important feature is that the solution continuously monitors traffic by inbuilt rules to identify preconfigured attacks."
"DDoS Protection is simple to deploy and integrates seamlessly with the Azure environment. Ease of deployment is a crucial feature for us."
"I like the user interface, documentation, and support. Azure DDoS Protection is one of the most valuable solutions for any endpoint that is publicly reachable through the internet. It will automatically secure all your endpoints from third-party attacks, cyber attacks, or phishing attacks."
"All its features are good. That's why we recommend it."
"Among the most valuable features are the DDoS protection that protects your virtual machines, the threat intelligence, and traffic filtering."
"I think that one of the best features is definitely the premium version, along with the IDPs in terms of the intrusion detection and prevention system."
"We use the solution for application and server deployment."
"One of the best features is that it natively integrates with Azure Services and tools. When you have a third-party offering, that is not the case. But Azure Firewall provides a comprehensive and seamless security solution for your Azure resources."
"Performance and stability are the key features of this product."
"We secure the entry point to the virtual data center with the firewall."
"Azure's cost-effectiveness is its major advantage."
"The visibility could be better. We would like to have better metrics, so we could see all the information in a central place."
"The UI needs to be improved."
"The implementation of Azure DDoS Protection results in a decrease in our bandwidth capacity and should be optimized to reduce resource consumption."
"The reporting aspect and dashboard management monitoring need improvement."
"Azure DDoS Protection could improve on the reporting."
"Sometimes, it is hard for our staff to keep track of changes (in the GUI) between different projects, because there are constant changes. As a result, it is hard to manage, recall, and see all the features because they have been moved from one place to another."
"The tool needs to improve the onboarding and transition process for on-prem users."
"Azure has new versions including a premium firewall. But I would like to see them not put the premium features on Azure Firewall Premium alone because it is quite expensive."
"Azure Firewall definitely needs a broader feature base. It should be able to go all the way up to layer 7 when looking at applications and things like that."
"It has fewer features than you can get from other firewalls, like anti-spam and anti-phishing. Those kinds of things are not included. It only includes IDS and IDB."
"The solution doesn't offer the same capabilities of Fortinet. It should offer intrusion prevention and advance filtering. These are two very useful features offered on Fortinet that Azure lacks."
"For larger enterprises, they need to adjust the scalability."
"Currently, it only supports IP addresses, so you have to be specific about the IPs that are in your environment."
"They can improve the pricing of Azure Firewall."
Azure DDoS Protection is ranked 22nd in Microsoft Security Suite with 6 reviews while Azure Firewall is ranked 14th in Microsoft Security Suite with 33 reviews. Azure DDoS Protection is rated 8.6, while Azure Firewall is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Azure DDoS Protection writes "Offers superior protection, prevents malicious traffic, and has good visibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". Azure DDoS Protection is most compared with Azure Front Door, AWS Shield, Cloudflare, Arbor DDoS and Microsoft Defender for Cloud, whereas Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Azure Bastion. See our Azure DDoS Protection vs. Azure Firewall report.
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