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 initial setup is very straightforward."
"The product’s UI is easy to understand."
"The most valuable feature is flexibility."
"The most important feature is that they have seven firewall protection, to protect our web servers."
"Most vendors fulfill the requirements for standard DDoS protection, but F5 Silverline Managed Services has a better understanding of defending web applications like HTTP and can mitigate more bot activity than any other vendor."
"We have a lot of businesses that we put behind this solution, and it has really helped us in terms of monitoring the logs and incidents."
"Its flexibility is the most valuable because it is a managed service. The good part is that you don't need to set it up. It just needs DNS routing, which is the easiest thing. Our client had Akamai for certain websites because they were using CDN features. They had NetScaler on the internal zone, F5 AWAFs on the data centers, and no WAF at all in the cloud. One of the main activities of the project was to move all these policies into a single WAF so that we could control and use that as a choke point. That exercise itself was very easy because it was a managed service and F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall does that for you. That's the best thing about F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall. It is easy to apply policies on-premises. If you have AWAF on-premises and you want to replicate some policies on F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall, other than the policies that it applies by itself, it is easy because you have a team that supports it. F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall works perfectly fine. It pretty much does everything that an Advanced WAF on-premises should do."
"F5 technical support is really good."
"I rate Microsoft Azure Application Gateway's scalability a ten out of ten. My company has more than 1000 users who use it daily."
"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 most valuable feature of the solution is traffic management."
"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 solution's integration is very good."
"I like the tool's stability and performance."
"The solution was very easy to configure. It wasn't hard at all to adjust it to our needs."
"There is room for improvement in the stability of the solution."
"The price of F5 Silverline Managed Services could be better."
"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."
"I just hope the price can be cheaper."
"The price is high in comparison to other products."
"F5 Silverline Managed Services can improve by adding features that Palo Alto has."
"We need to have support for cloud protection, which is not offered by this solution."
"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."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway's first deployment is complex. It needs to improve its pricing."
"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."
"In the next release, the solution could improve the integration with Service Mesh and other Azure Security Services."
"Application Gateway’s limitation is that the private and the public endpoint cannot use the same port."
"The solution doesn’t support wildcard-based and regular expression-based rules."
"The graphical interface needs improvement because it is not user friendly."
"The pricing of the solution could be improved. Right now, it's a bit expensive."
"Microsoft needs to work on their documentation."
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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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