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."
"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."
"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."
"It is a scalable solution...The installation phase of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is very easy."
"The most valuable feature is WAF."
"We use the product in front-end and back-end applications to do the load balancing smartly."
"Using policies to link and manage these URL-based routing configurations is also valuable."
"The solution's most valuable feature is an HTTP solution and SSL certificate. It is also easy to use."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"The graphical interface needs improvement because it is not user friendly."
"The monitoring on the solution could be better."
"In the next release, the solution could improve the integration with Service Mesh and other Azure Security Services."
"The product could be easier to use and implement."
"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."
"Implementing and standardizing the solution across the IT landscape in a heterogeneous environment is painful."
"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."
"Needs easier integration with the existing SIAM."
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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 41 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, F5 Advanced WAF, Citrix NetScaler, Azure Front Door and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall.
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