We performed a comparison between Cloudflare and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is easier to configure and develop documentation to see how we have configured firewalls."
"Cloudflare has many features."
"Cloudflare offers CDN and DDoS protection. We have the front end, API, and database in how you structure applications."
"New and innovative way to protect the client's data."
"The technical support is good."
"Generally, I am satisfied with this product."
"Many websites require an SSL certificate because they sell stuff and want SSL. Cloudflare comes with an SSL certificate built in. It's automatic. You sign yourself up for Cloudflare, and an SSL certificate automatically protects your website. You don't necessarily need a certificate if you have a connection between your website and your host, the server, Cloudflare, and the host."
"It's very user-friendly."
"It is a scalable solution...The installation phase of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is very easy."
"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."
"Load balancing and web application firewall features are the most valuable."
"The solution was very easy to configure. It wasn't hard at all to adjust it to our needs."
"I like the tool's stability and performance."
"The solution has built-in rules that reduce alerts and are easy to configure."
"This is a SaaS product, so it is always up to date."
"I rate Microsoft Azure Application Gateway's scalability a ten out of ten. My company has more than 1000 users who use it daily."
"Cloudflare's console should be made more user-friendly."
"Cloudflare could offer a better view or maybe dashboards of the main resources used in the client."
"Even if I wanted to, I wouldn't be able to buy Cloudflare in my country."
"We are a product integrator and reseller, and we would like to have a better partner relationship, similar to a channel sales relationship. Sometimes we are on our own or get diverted by Cloudflare because they have direct sales, which competes with us and makes it difficult to build a relationship with this company since we want to be an MSP or a managed service provider for the solution."
"There should be a specific price list for enterprise-level customers."
"DNS Management."
"Sometimes their more advanced caching tools can cause higher first-byte times and problems with JavaScript."
"If they improve on the placement of their data centers, it would be better. I'm living in a remote area. I would like to connect to them without any kind of lag."
"It does not have the flexibility for using public IPs in version 2."
"Scalability can be an issue."
"The tool's pricing could be improved."
"Application Gateway’s limitation is that the private and the public endpoint cannot use the same port."
"The solution should provide more security for certificate-based services so that we can implement more security on that."
"The support can be improved when you are configuring the system rules. The Disaster Recovery feature can be added in the next release. The price of the solution can be reduced a bit."
"The working speed of the solution needs improvement."
"Implementing and standardizing the solution across the IT landscape in a heterogeneous environment is painful."
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Cloudflare is ranked 1st in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 57 reviews while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is ranked 4th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews. Cloudflare is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Cloudflare writes "It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes". 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". Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, AWS Shield and Arbor DDoS, whereas Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Citrix NetScaler, AWS WAF, Cloudflare Web Application Firewall and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM). See our Cloudflare vs. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway report.
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