We performed a comparison between AWS WAF and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, AWS WAF has a slight edge over Microsoft Azure Application Gateway. Our reviewers found Microsoft to have challenges with stability, scalability, and support.
"Their technical support has been quite good."
"Rule groups are valuable."
"This is not a product that you need to install. You just use it."
"We can host any DB or application on the solution."
"It is Amazon. Everything is scalable. It is beyond what we need."
"The simple configuration and the scalability have been most valuable. We are able to scale across all of our different AWS instances."
"The tool’s stability is very good."
"Stable and scalable web application firewall. Setting it up is straightforward."
"We use the product in front-end and back-end applications to do the load balancing smartly."
"WAF feature replicates the firewall."
"It does an excellent job of load balancing."
"Using policies to link and manage these URL-based routing configurations is also valuable."
"Application Gateway automatically redirects unwanted users and takes care of the security aspect. It also handles the performance side of things, which is why we use it."
"Azure Application Gateway's most valuable feature is ease of use. The configuration is straightforward. It isn't difficult to adjust the size of your instances in the settings. You can do that with a few clicks, and the configuration file is the same way. You can also set rules and policies with minimal time and effort."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"In a future release of this solution, I would like to see additional management features to make things simpler."
"It will be helpful if the product recommends rules that we can implement."
"The solution could be more reliable."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"They have to do more to improve, to innovate more features. They need to increase the security. It has to be more active in detecting threats."
"We should be able to do proper whitelisting."
"The cost must be reduced."
"I would like to be able to view a graphical deployment map in the user interface that will give me an overview of the configuration and help to determine whether I have missed any steps."
"The solution should provide more security for certificate-based services so that we can implement more security on that."
"It does not have the flexibility for using public IPs in version 2."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway could improve by allowing features to use more third-party tools."
"The tool's pricing could be improved."
"I believe that there is room for improvement in terms of additional functionality. It is an advantage to have features readily available for configuration without needing customer-defined rules."
"For the first-time user, it is difficult to understand so the user-interface needs to be improved."
"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."
"The increased security that we are considering is because of some of the things that the security team has brought to our attention. They have pointed out that we would most likely require a better web application firewall than Azure Application Gateway."
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AWS WAF is ranked 1st in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 52 reviews while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 40 reviews. AWS WAF is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of AWS WAF writes "A highly stable solution that helps mitigate different kinds of bot attacks and SQL injection attacks". 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". AWS WAF is most compared with Azure Web Application Firewall, F5 Advanced WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall, Cloudflare Web Application Firewall and Fortinet FortiWeb, whereas Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, F5 Advanced WAF, Azure Front Door, Cloudflare Web Application Firewall and HAProxy. See our AWS WAF vs. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway report.
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