We performed a comparison between Azure Web Application Firewall and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has been a stable product in my experience."
"The solution has good dashboards."
"It's quite a stable product and works well with Microsoft products."
"The integration it has with GitHub is great."
"The initial setup is easy and straightforward...Azure Web Application Firewall is a scalable product."
"It's a good option if you want a solution that's ready to go and easy for your team to learn. It's cloud-based, so you don't need to buy or maintain any hardware infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is that it allows us to publish our applications behind the firewall."
"Azure WAF is extremely stable."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is its ease of use."
"We find it valuable because it is compatible with our existing Azure solution."
"In my experience, Microsoft products have a smooth integration and facilitate easy management and monitoring. Using Azure Application Gateway allows us to efficiently handle the system loads."
"The solution has built-in rules that reduce alerts and are easy to configure."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway are the policies, the data store they are using, and the cloud platform it operates on."
"The solution's most valuable feature is an HTTP solution and SSL certificate. It is also easy to use."
"WAF feature replicates the firewall."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is traffic management."
"From a reporting perspective, they could do more there."
"The support for proxy forwarding could improve."
"Deployment should be simplified so that a non-techie can handle it."
"There is a need to be able to configure the solution more."
"I would say that Azure's customer service is not that good...I am not very happy with the support offered."
"The management can be improved."
"The documentation needs to be improved."
"In Brazil, we have some problems with the phone service that affect our connection with the cloud. However, it isn't common."
"The solution should provide more security for certificate-based services so that we can implement more security on that."
"I want the solution's support to improve. The tool is also expensive."
"Implementing and standardizing the solution across the IT landscape in a heterogeneous environment is painful."
"The security of the product could be adjusted."
"The solution doesn’t support wildcard-based and regular expression-based rules."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway's first deployment is complex. It needs to improve its pricing."
"The product could be easier to use and implement."
"The product's performance should be better."
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Azure Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 9 reviews while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 41 reviews. Azure Web Application Firewall is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Azure Web Application Firewall writes "It's a good option if you want a solution that's ready to go and easy for your team to learn". 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". Azure Web Application Firewall is most compared with AWS WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Azure Front Door, Azure Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall, whereas Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Citrix NetScaler, AWS WAF, Cloudflare Web Application Firewall and Azure Front Door. See our Azure Web Application Firewall vs. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway report.
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