We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiADC and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution provides high-level services such as availability, redundancy, and load balancing between servers."
"Content caching and content compression are good features."
"Although FortiADC has multiple features that I like, the global DNS is the most helpful. It is primarily useful for customers with huge environments and at least two data centers. FortiADC can act as your DNS server. It can check which data center has the lowest latency, and route traffic to that one. It's an intelligent DNS."
"The product has flexible and interesting licensing options."
"The GSLB, the DR side, is the best part. Because we had our main side in one city, we created another, and we had a complete MPLS over the internet. We used the GSLB and data loss for our business applications."
"The user interface is very easy and integrates with Sandbox easily."
"I am impressed with the product's load-balancing feature."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL offloading capacity."
"I rate Microsoft Azure Application Gateway's scalability a ten out of ten. My company has more than 1000 users who use it daily."
"Good customization; able to report and take action on alerts."
"It is a scalable solution...The installation phase of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is very easy."
"The solution provides great automation and it is easy to upgrade service."
"I find Application Gateway’s WAF module valuable because it helps prevent layer 7 attacks."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the web application firewall (WAF)."
"The production is a valuable feature."
"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 L7 Persistent load-balancing algorithm has not worked for me after having tested it many times with my customer's in-house application. I'd like to suggest that the company make sure that all load-balancing algorithms work properly with most applications, even those that are in-house apps."
"There is a mismatch between the number of features they are offering and the device capacity on how much it can handle."
"The product's stability for VMs could be better."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The configuration is relatively complex."
"Because it is so generic, the documentation requires special attention. A person who has not worked on Fortinet FortiADC or a similar product will struggle to understand what the document is trying to say. The documentation could be more specific, and more detailed."
"The solution should improve finding false positives and false negatives. There are a lot of false positives."
"FortiADC is complex to configure so the interface should be improved."
"I want the solution's support to improve. The tool is also expensive."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is harder to manage than Imperva. It is not intuitive and stable compared to other products."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway's first deployment is complex. It needs to improve its pricing."
"Application Gateway’s limitation is that the private and the public endpoint cannot use the same port."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway could improve by allowing features to use more third-party tools."
"The configuration is very specific right now and needs to be much more flexible."
"The tool's pricing could be improved."
"Implementing and standardizing the solution across the IT landscape in a heterogeneous environment is painful."
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Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is ranked 4th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews. Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8, while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiADC writes "High-level load balancing and routing protocols but scalability is limited to 200 gigabits". 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". Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiWeb, Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, 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 Fortinet FortiADC vs. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway report.
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