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."
"The pricing is quite good."
"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."
"Using policies to link and manage these URL-based routing configurations is also valuable."
"The solution has built-in rules that reduce alerts and are easy to configure."
"We find it valuable because it is compatible with our existing Azure solution."
"The production is a valuable feature."
"I like the tool's stability and performance."
"This is a SaaS product, so it is always up to date."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"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 could be improved. Right now, it's a bit expensive."
"The solution is easy to use overall, but the dashboard could be updated with a better layout and graphical design so that we can see the data a bit easier. Microsoft could also add more documentation. The documentation Microsoft provides doesn't tell us about resource requirements. We found that the instances we had weren't sufficient to support the firewall, so we had to increase them."
"The solution should provide more security for certificate-based services so that we can implement more security on that."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is harder to manage than Imperva. It is not intuitive and stable compared to other products."
"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."
"For the first-time user, it is difficult to understand so the user-interface needs to be improved."
"Application Gateway’s limitation is that the private and the public endpoint cannot use the same port."
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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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