We compared Cloudflare and Azure Front Door based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Cloudflare and Azure Front Door both offer valuable features such as robust security measures, reliable content delivery networks, and efficient caching capabilities. However, Cloudflare stands out with its user-friendly interface, real-time threat detection, and extensive analytics tools. On the other hand, Azure Front Door is praised for its seamless integration with other Azure services, powerful security measures, and scalability. Users appreciate Cloudflare for its responsive support and cost-effective pricing, while Azure Front Door receives positive feedback for its efficient customer service and positive return on investment. Areas for improvement in Cloudflare include network performance, user interface, documentation and support, customization options, pricing transparency, and integration with other services. Meanwhile, Azure Front Door could benefit from enhancements in performance and stability, user-friendly configuration processes, improved error handling and troubleshooting capabilities, more customization options, and addressing security concerns.
Features: Cloudflare's valuable features include robust security measures, reliable content delivery network, efficient caching capabilities, and user-friendly interface. Azure Front Door offers efficient traffic management, powerful security measures, seamless integration with Azure services, and robust monitoring and analytics capabilities.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Cloudflare is appreciated by users for being straightforward and hassle-free. There have been no concerns or issues with the licensing process, indicating a smooth experience. Users have also mentioned their feedback on Azure Front Door, discussing their experiences with pricing, setup costs, and licensing., Cloudflare's ROI is characterized by improved website performance, increased security, reduced downtime, user-friendly interface, and value for money. In contrast, Azure Front Door's ROI includes effective traffic distribution, enhanced website performance, scalability, cost-effectiveness, and seamless integration with other Azure services.
Room for Improvement: Cloudflare product: Users have mentioned room for improvement in network performance, user interface, documentation and support, customization options, pricing transparency, and integration with other services. Azure Front Door product: Room for improvement includes enhancing performance and stability, refining configuration process, improving error handling, increasing customization options, and addressing security concerns.
Deployment and customer support: The user reviews for Cloudflare and Azure Front Door show that both products have varying durations required for establishing a new tech solution. Some users took three months for deployment and a week for setup, while others took only a week for both phases. It is important to consider the context of these timeframes and whether they refer to separate or the same periods., Cloudflare's customer service is praised for their exceptional assistance and responsive support. Users appreciate the quick and knowledgeable responses, while Azure Front Door receives positive remarks for its efficient and helpful assistance.
The summary above is based on 23 interviews we conducted recently with Cloudflare and Azure Front Door users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"Has a great application firewall and we like the security."
"The price is one of the most important aspects of the product. It's quite affordable."
"I particularly appreciate its load-balancing capabilities as it allows us to manage multiple instances and support a global presence effectively."
"The web application firewall is a great feature."
"Rules Engine is a valuable feature."
"You can assign as many web application firewall policies as you want to the same instance of Front Door."
"It inspects the traffic at the network level before it comes into Azure. We can do SSL offloading, and it can detect abnormalities before the traffic comes into the application. It can be used globally and is easy to set up. It is also quite stable and scalable."
"The most valuable feature is that you can implement resources globally. It does not depend on location and ability or something like that. This is to connect clients around the world."
"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare is the GUI. You are able to control the solution very well through the interface. There is a lot of functionality that is embedded in the service."
"The simplicity of the overall dashboard makes it a great product for a user like me who has less understanding of the internet than a developer or other more technical people. It gives me peace of mind. I also love the easy customization of the Page Rules."
"DDoS attacks target unprotected machines. Cloudflare detects and stops these attacks using internal systems. It identifies incoming DDoS attacks, issuing challenges or blocking them immediately."
"Centralized, full-featured DNS."
"From what I've seen so far, there are no negatives to report as of yet"
"The solution is very good at mitigating threats."
"Cloudflare allows us to self-host services such as Rocket.Chat and Node-RED, in high-availability mode, thanks to round robin DNS which allows us to share one hostname between our two locations."
"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare is that it has a free version. They give us the free version with the anti-DDoS features and also the load balancing solution."
"It lacks sufficient functionality."
"I'm responsible for the governance and cost control of Azure. I'm not a specialist in any products and therefore I couldn't really speak effectively to features that are lacking or missing."
"The user interface needs improvement as it is difficult to create the mapping to link the problem with your private address sources."
"My suggestion for improvement would be to enhance the Data Export feature to include specific tables, particularly the Azure Diagnostics table."
"There is room for improvement and they're working on it."
"There's a limitation on the amount of global rules we can add."
"This is a relatively expensive solution."
"The product needs to improve its latency."
"There should be a specific price list for enterprise-level customers."
"DNS Management."
"It should have easier documentation for the configuration. It's very technical and people who aren't technical should also be able to do the configuration."
"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."
"Cloudflare could offer a better view or maybe dashboards of the main resources used in the client."
"It would be good if Cloudflare could have more servers for better traffic routing or an increase in the traffic routed. This is what I'd like to improve in Cloudflare."
"One area of improvement is in the Access Rules. Hypothetically, if we wanted to block or challenge traffic outside of the United States, the only way to currently do that (as far as I know) is to enter every single country outside of the United States. That could be a labor intensive job. A solution could be to enable users to create a rule where traffic is only allowed within a certain country."
"The timing aspect can lead to it being considered overpriced. This is a particular concern we have with Cloudflare, as they may struggle with accurately detecting the client."
Azure Front Door is ranked 2nd in CDN with 10 reviews while Cloudflare is ranked 1st in CDN with 56 reviews. Azure Front Door is rated 8.8, while Cloudflare is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Azure Front Door writes " An easy -to-setup stable solution that enables implementing resources globally and has a good technical support team". On the other hand, 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". Azure Front Door is most compared with Amazon CloudFront, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Akamai, AWS Global Accelerator and Azure Firewall, whereas Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Imperva DDoS, AWS Shield, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and Arbor DDoS. See our Azure Front Door vs. Cloudflare report.
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