We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and NGINX Plus 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 tool helps manage microservices by providing developers with a platform to conduct tests and assessments on the web application. The custom domain option is one of the most valuable features I've found. This feature is incredibly helpful for the end-users of the web application. With the custom domain feature, you can change the lengthy link to a shorter, more memorable one. For example, instead of using a lengthy default link, you can customize it to something like imail.com, which is much easier to remember and share."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the web application firewall (WAF)."
"The solution was very easy to configure. It wasn't hard at all to adjust it to our needs."
"It has a filter available, although we are not currently using it because it is not part of our requirements. But it is a good option and when it becomes part of our requirements we will definitely use it."
"The solution's most valuable feature is an HTTP solution and SSL certificate. It is also easy to use."
"The health probe is pretty good for your backend health. It tells you whether it's communicating and talking to the endpoint correctly. It is quite useful."
"The security feature in all the layers of the application is the most valuable."
"I rate Microsoft Azure Application Gateway's scalability a ten out of ten. My company has more than 1000 users who use it daily."
"The product is resilient."
"NGINX Plus also has NGINX App Protect. It's a separate module, which is inspired by the F5 apps."
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"I find the solution’s community support and documentation most valuable. Compared to HAProxy, have found a lot of documentation and community support on Quora. If you would be asking me as a developer whether to choose this product, I would recommend this since it has good community support, documentation, and signature updates. The configuration of HAProxy is also very tedious. However, NGINX’s configuration is very simple."
"Nginx is extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio, and in terms of the bandwidth to CPU cycles."
"Its versatility and capabilities make it invaluable for implementing patches and fixes when necessary."
"The best solution, by far, for web traffic control for things in production and just around the house."
"The web proxy and the database proxy are excellent."
"The pricing of the solution is a bit high. The solution should offer different pricing systems."
"It takes a lot of time for a certificate to update in the system. That is a huge drawback, affecting the load-balancing side. And when there are changes to the load balancing, it affects the end-user."
"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."
"The tool's pricing could be improved."
"The tool is a pain to deal with when it comes to the area of configuration."
"The support provided for the solution has certain shortcomings that need improvement, especially when it comes to the response time from the support team."
"I want the solution's support to improve. The tool is also expensive."
"It is a bit tricky to configure. You've got to have a very specific format to configure it. They should make it a little bit easier to configure. Mapping the certificates into it isn't easy, and it could be better. Currently, you've to write a bit of automation to pull certificates directly to HTTPS."
"The scalability could be improved."
"The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."
"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."
"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."
"The user interface could be improved."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
"The solution needs to be easier to setup and deploy."
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Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is ranked 4th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 38 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is rated 7.2, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway writes "High stability with built-in rules that reduce alerts and are easy to configure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is most compared with AWS WAF, Citrix NetScaler, Azure Front Door, F5 Advanced WAF and Barracuda Web Application Firewall, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and IBM DataPower Gateway. See our Microsoft Azure Application Gateway vs. NGINX Plus report.
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