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.
"The solution is stable."
"The product’s availability, ease of configuration, and documentation are valuable."
"The access instruction feature is the most valuable. This is what we use the most."
"It is a one-click WAF with no effort needed."
"We do not have to maintain the solution."
"The customizable features are good."
"AWS WAF is a stable solution. The performance of the solution is very good."
"Rule groups are 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."
"The simplicity of the solution and its ability to integrate easily with others are its most valuable aspects."
"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."
"WAF feature replicates the firewall."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway gives us a lot of benefits, including domain mapping."
"The solution's most valuable feature is an HTTP solution and SSL certificate. It is also easy to use."
"The pricing is quite good."
"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."
"I would like to see it more tightly integrated with other AWS services."
"The solution's pricing could be improved."
"On the UI side, I would like it if they could bring back the geolocation view on the corner."
"The serverless product from AWS WAF could be improved. For example, they have only one serverless series, Lambda, but they should extend and improve it. Additionally, the firewall rules are not very easy to configure."
"The setup is complicated."
"The product could be improved by expanding the weightage units of rules."
"The product should improve the DDoS-related features."
"The solution should identify why it blocks particular websites."
"Scalability can be an issue."
"The working speed of the solution needs improvement."
"The support provided for the solution has certain shortcomings that need improvement, especially when it comes to the response time from the support team."
"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."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway's first deployment is complex. It needs to improve its pricing."
"The security of the product could be adjusted."
"It does not have the flexibility for using public IPs in version 2."
"The solution should provide more security for certificate-based services so that we can implement more security on that."
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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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