Akamai Ion vs Microsoft Azure Application Gateway comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Akamai Ion
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
15th
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Azure Application...
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
4th
Average Rating
7.2
Number of Reviews
43
Ranking in other categories
Web Application Firewall (WAF) (3rd)
 

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) category, the market share of Akamai Ion is 0.6% and it increased by 103.5% compared to the previous year. The market share of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is 7.4% and it decreased by 27.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
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Web Application Firewall (WAF)
8.8%
 

Featured Reviews

Neha Shakyawar - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 22, 2024
Helps optimize the content delivery network, but doesn’t provide much flexibility
The solution helps us optimize the content delivery network. It's one of the oldest companies. It improves the overall user experience. It has the biggest CDN We ensure that all our production domains are rooted in Akamai to improve the customer experience by shortening the lag time. We ensure…
Sooryanarayan Hegde - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 20, 2024
Easy management and configuration, affordable, and has good features
We use all the features. It is very useful. Using WAF, we can control the WAF rules based on our application requirements. We can control what rules should be used and what should be disabled. The role of the tool is limited to HTTP traffic. It does exactly what it must do. It's a regional service. We know how to use it for DR scenarios. WAF has been the most valuable in protecting applications. We use at least three instances in the back end to give the best performance for our applications. The management and configuration of the solution is quite easy. All certificate renewals are automatically taken care of by Key Vault.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Akamai is easy to use and very effective."
"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 solution was very easy to configure. It wasn't hard at all to adjust it to our needs."
"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 most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is its ease of use."
"This is a SaaS product, so it is always up to date."
"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 pricing is quite good."
"Some of the key features of this solution are the low-level maintenance required, floating proxy service, and load balancing."
 

Cons

"The product must provide more flexibility."
"The monitoring on the solution could be better."
"It does not have the flexibility for using public IPs in version 2."
"Scalability can be an issue."
"It could be more stable, and support could be better. It would also be better if they offered more features. For example, it lacks security features. Before we used another English solution, and we realized that some of the rules were not set up correctly and passed through the Application Gateway's English controllers. But the problem, in this case, is if you send ten rules, for example, six rules hit some issues. IP address blocking could be better. The rules, for example, don't work properly. If you have one issue, one rule or another rule will not work. This sounds like total madness to me."
"The product's performance should be better."
"We faced some downtime while validating CNAME."
"The security of the product could be adjusted."
"Implementing and standardizing the solution across the IT landscape in a heterogeneous environment is painful."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool is expensive."
"I rate the pricing seven out of ten because some third-party solutions are even costlier than this."
"The product is not expensive."
"I rate the price of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway an eight out of ten."
"It is not expensive."
"Between v1 and v2, there is a lot of change in the pricing. It is very costly compared to AWS."
"The tool's pricing model is pay-as-you-go."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is a pretty affordable product. My company needs to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs of the solution. The additional costs apart from the licensing costs of the solution vary."
"The solution is reasonably priced."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Government
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Akamai Ion?
Akamai is easy to use and very effective.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Akamai Ion?
I rate the pricing a four out of ten. The tool is expensive. The pricing must be optimized.
What needs improvement with Akamai Ion?
The product must provide more flexibility. There are not too many permutations and combinations that we could do using Ion. The product used to provide Image Compression before. It is not a bundled...
What's the difference between Azure Front Door and Application Gateway?
We found Azure Front Door to be easily scaled and very stable. The implementation is very fast and Microsoft provides excellent support. Azure Front Door can quickly detect abnormalities before the...
How does AWS WAF compare to Microsoft Azure Application Gateway?
Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether Amazon’s Web Service Web Application Firewall or Microsoft Azure Application Gateway web application firewall software was the better fit ...
What do you like most about Microsoft Azure Application Gateway?
Application Gateway automatically redirects unwanted users and takes care of the security aspect. It also handles the performance side of things, which is why we use it.
 

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Azure Application Gateway, MS Azure Application Gateway
 

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