We performed a comparison between Cloudflare and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Cloudflare has many features."
"The solution offers the flexibility to control configuration rules."
"Easier http to https redirect using page rules"
"It's very user-friendly."
"The web application firewall brought us good security and a view of the accesses/blocks of the entire domain and subdomain that were accessed both by region (country) and IPs."
"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."
"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."
"Cloudflare is a security SaaS provider that provides security and protects us from any application layer attack."
"Some of the key features of this solution are the low-level maintenance required, floating proxy service, and load balancing."
"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 production is a valuable feature."
"The solution was very easy to configure. It wasn't hard at all to adjust it to our needs."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The solution's most valuable feature is an HTTP solution and SSL certificate. It is also easy to use."
"WAF feature replicates the firewall."
"We're facing challenges due to an upgrade in the machine learning model. The problem arises from some users abusing the APIs, resulting in an influx of suspicious traffic. Cloudflare's learning model mistakenly identifies this traffic as human. Consequently, it assigns it a higher trust score, akin to legitimate human traffic, causing complications in our architecture. Previously, such traffic would have been categorized as suspicious, enabling us to apply appropriate blocking rules. However, we encounter difficulties distinguishing between genuine and suspicious traffic with the new categorization. Despite these challenges, overall, Cloudflare remains the preferred solution compared to Azure, AWS CloudFront, and Google Cloud Armor."
"Even if I wanted to, I wouldn't be able to buy Cloudflare in my country."
"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."
"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."
"If they improve on the placement of their data centers, it would be better. I'm living in a remote area. I would like to connect to them without any kind of lag."
"DNS Management."
"Support response time could be improved."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway could improve by allowing features to use more third-party tools."
"I believe that there is room for improvement in terms of additional functionality. It is an advantage to have features readily available for configuration without needing customer-defined rules."
"The tool's pricing could be improved."
"I want the solution's support to improve. The tool is also expensive."
"We have encountered some issues with automatic redirection and cancellation, leading to 502 and 504 gateway errors. So, I experienced some trouble with containers."
"The configuration is very specific right now and needs to be much more flexible."
"The product could be easier to use and implement."
"The solution should provide more security for certificate-based services so that we can implement more security on that."
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Cloudflare is ranked 1st in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 57 reviews while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is ranked 4th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews. Cloudflare is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is rated 7.2. 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". 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". Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, AWS Shield and Arbor DDoS, whereas Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Citrix NetScaler, AWS WAF, Cloudflare Web Application Firewall and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM). See our Cloudflare vs. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway report.
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