We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and NGINX Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Some of the key features of this solution are the low-level maintenance required, floating proxy service, and load balancing."
"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 most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway are the policies, the data store they are using, and the cloud platform it operates on."
"Using policies to link and manage these URL-based routing configurations is also valuable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is traffic management."
"Load balancing and web application firewall features are the most valuable."
"Good customization; able to report and take action on alerts."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the web application firewall (WAF)."
"Its versatility and capabilities make it invaluable for implementing patches and fixes when necessary."
"Zero Downtime has always been a strength in recommending infrastructure web services. NGINX allows me to execute such infrastructure with less complications and the ability to switch from server to server easily."
"Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing."
"The flexibility of its modules allow it to be scalable."
"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."
"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."
"The product is lightweight and fast."
"The load balancing module, which is equivalent to LTM, is the focus of the PSE. So far, the features of both are identical. I believe NGINX has more features for securing these services, but in terms of load balancing, both are massive solutions."
"In the next release, the solution could improve the integration with Service Mesh and other Azure Security Services."
"It does not have the flexibility for using public IPs in version 2."
"The configuration is very specific right now and needs to be much more flexible."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway's first deployment is complex. It needs to improve its pricing."
"The product's performance should be better."
"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."
"The solution doesn’t support wildcard-based and regular expression-based rules."
"The solution has many limitations. You cannot upgrade the VPN to the application gateway. So I started with version one, which has limited capabilities, and they provided version two. And unfortunately, I cannot upgrade from v one to v two like other services. So I have to decommission the version one and create a new one with version two. Also the version one was complex with the certificates uploading the SQL certificates."
"The biggest room for improvement would be to allow NGINX Core machines to cluster for memory zones in some way with a plug and play module. "
"If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. "
"Make modules easier to enable or disable. The beauty and ugly side of the NGINX modules is you have to know how to compile the module. For beginners or non-very technical aspirant(s) going for NGINX, they have to learn how to compile the modules."
"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
"The solution must improve its performance."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
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Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is ranked 4th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 40 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is rated 7.2, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway writes "High stability with built-in rules that reduce alerts and are easy to configure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is most compared with AWS WAF, Citrix NetScaler, F5 Advanced WAF, Azure Front Door and Barracuda Web Application Firewall, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and IBM DataPower Gateway. See our Microsoft Azure Application Gateway vs. NGINX Plus report.
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