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.
"The solution is good."
"Has a great application firewall and we like the security."
"I am impressed with the tool's integrations."
"The price is one of the most important aspects of the product. It's quite affordable."
"Rules Engine is a valuable feature."
"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."
"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."
"New and innovative way to protect the client's data."
"Cloudflare has many features."
"Generally, I am satisfied with this product."
"I rate its stability a ten out of ten."
"We're using dynamic components to build flexible pages to create and manage Git merge requests for code and reviews."
"Easier http to https redirect using page rules"
"Smaller businesses have seen great ROI due to the low investment and strong performance."
"What I like best about Cloudflare is that my company can use it to trace and manage applications and monitor traffic. The solution tells you if there's a spike in traffic. Cloudflare also sends you a link to check your equipment and deployment and track it through peering, so it's a valuable tool."
"The product's features are limited compared to Cloudflare. The tool also doesn't work well in a hybrid environment. I would like to see a way to add personalized APIs in the system."
"The product needs to improve its latency."
"It lacks sufficient functionality."
"We should be able to use Front Door defenders with multiple cloud vendors. Currently, they can be used only with the Azure cloud. Azure Front Door should also be able to do global load balancing and provide internal front door services. Microsoft should clearly define what Traffic Manager, Application Gateway, and Azure Front Door products do. These are similar products, and people get confused between these products."
"There's a limitation on the amount of global rules we can add."
"The user interface needs improvement as it is difficult to create the mapping to link the problem with your private address sources."
"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."
"There is room for improvement and they're working on it."
"There are some issues with the CDN services."
"The solution could use more analytics on the backend to give us more insights into everything. More reports would be helpful."
"I think the APIs are a little bit hard for us to work with. The APIs could be more open so that we could integrate better with our SolarWinds or our monitoring solution."
"The product needs to improve its automation."
"DNS Management."
"Although I think it's quite good, it doesn't provide me with all the features I would expect to have if I were using Imperva."
"Technical support is lacking."
"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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