We performed a comparison between F5 Silverline Managed Services 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."The product’s UI is easy to understand."
"F5 technical support is really good."
"The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is it becomes similar to a distributed architecture."
"The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is the benchmark performance."
"It's a good front end for public infrastructure"
"The most valuable features are the configuration and configuring the process."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The production is a valuable feature."
"It is a scalable solution...The installation phase of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is very easy."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is traffic management."
"The security feature in all the layers of the application is the most valuable."
"Load balancing and web application firewall features are the most valuable."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is WAF."
"I find Application Gateway’s WAF module valuable because it helps prevent layer 7 attacks."
"We'd like more AI to be used. Right now, they don't use it enough."
"You need to have Linux knowledge in order to use the shell."
"The price of F5 Silverline Managed Services could be better."
"In terms of the scalability, this part is always so confusing because they are checking for packet count. Also, after an attack, they said that the throughput must be from gigabits but then I check my bandwidth and it is already done in gigabits. So it is a little bit confusing."
"There is a lot of room for improvement with their tech support. I am not sure F5 Silverline Managed Services can be classified as having tech support."
"We need to have support for cloud protection, which is not offered by this solution."
"The navigation is difficult to use."
"I just hope the price can be cheaper."
"The monitoring on the solution could be better."
"It takes a lot of time for a certificate to update in the system. That is a huge drawback, affecting the load-balancing side. And when there are changes to the load balancing, it affects the end-user."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is harder to manage than Imperva. It is not intuitive and stable compared to other products."
"The tool's pricing could be improved."
"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."
"It could be more stable, and support could be better. It would also be better if they offered more features. For example, it lacks security features. Before we used another English solution, and we realized that some of the rules were not set up correctly and passed through the Application Gateway's English controllers. But the problem, in this case, is if you send ten rules, for example, six rules hit some issues. IP address blocking could be better. The rules, for example, don't work properly. If you have one issue, one rule or another rule will not work. This sounds like total madness to me."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway could improve by allowing features to use more third-party tools."
"The graphical interface needs improvement because it is not user friendly."
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F5 Silverline Managed Services is ranked 20th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 14 reviews while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 41 reviews. F5 Silverline Managed Services is rated 7.6, while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of F5 Silverline Managed Services writes "It is flexible and lets you easily apply policies, but it needs to support more PoPs". 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". F5 Silverline Managed Services is most compared with Cloudflare, Arbor DDoS, AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), 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 F5 Silverline Managed Services vs. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway report.
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