We performed a comparison between Akamai Ion and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Akamai is easy to use and very effective."
"Using policies to link and manage these URL-based routing configurations is also valuable."
"The solution provides great automation and it is easy to upgrade service."
"The solution has built-in rules that reduce alerts and are easy to configure."
"We find it valuable because it is compatible with our existing Azure solution."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is traffic management."
"It does an excellent job of load balancing."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway gives us a lot of benefits, including domain mapping."
"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 product must provide more flexibility."
"The solution has many limitations. You cannot upgrade the VPN to the application gateway. So I started with version one, which has limited capabilities, and they provided version two. And unfortunately, I cannot upgrade from v one to v two like other services. So I have to decommission the version one and create a new one with version two. Also the version one was complex with the certificates uploading the SQL certificates."
"The configuration is very specific right now and needs to be much more flexible."
"The working speed of the solution needs improvement."
"The security of the product could be adjusted."
"The product's performance should be better."
"The tool's pricing could be improved."
"The pricing of the solution could be improved. Right now, it's a bit expensive."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
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Akamai Ion is ranked 15th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 1 review while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is ranked 4th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 40 reviews. Akamai Ion is rated 7.0, while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Akamai Ion writes "Helps optimize the content delivery network, but doesn’t provide much flexibility". 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". Akamai Ion is most compared with NGINX Plus, whereas Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is most compared with AWS WAF, Citrix NetScaler, F5 Advanced WAF, Azure Front Door and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall.
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