We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, F5 Advanced WAF seems to be the superior solution. Our reviewers find that the questions concerning Microsoft Azure Application Gateway’s stability and scalability make it a riskier investment than F5 Advanced WAF.
"F5 Advanced WAF helps our engineers to learn the complete configuration, including fundamental and advanced policies."
"With F5 Advanced WAF, it was protection for online publications and for our customers that caused us to choose the platform."
"It's scalable and very easy to manage."
"I like them because I like the security solution. They get extra marks compared to other solutions or competitors. There are more features than any other product I can think of. They're always monitoring, and the security features offer more than other, lesser products."
"The solution isn't too expensive. The license allows you to license what you need and leave out what you don't need."
"In terms of F5 Advanced WAF's most valuable features, I would definitely say its stability. F5 is one the most stable products. Either as the load balancer or the web application firewall, it is very stable."
"The solution is easily accessible on mobile and laptop devices."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the WAF protection, Data Safe, and the seven-layer DDoS."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is its ease of use."
"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 solution has built-in rules that reduce alerts and are easy to configure."
"I like the tool's stability and performance."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is traffic management."
"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."
"It is a scalable solution...The installation phase of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is very easy."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing."
"One area for improvement in the product is its SSO integration, which posed challenges and required significant effort to resolve."
"I would like to see a better interface and better documentation compatibility with other products. It's more complicated with OWASP."
"I would like to see the API Protection improved."
"This solution can be made more user-friendly."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve on its funding for WAF features. There is a need to be more advanced WAF features."
"The reporting portion of F5 Advance WAF is not great. They need to work out something better, as it is very basic. You only see the top IPs, I think there is more they can offer."
"The accuracy of the automatic learning feature needs improvement."
"Application Gateway’s limitation is that the private and the public endpoint cannot use the same port."
"The configuration is very specific right now and needs to be much more flexible."
"It takes a lot of time for a certificate to update in the system. That is a huge drawback, affecting the load-balancing side. And when there are changes to the load balancing, it affects the end-user."
"The product's performance should be better."
"The product could be easier to use and implement."
"The pricing of the solution could be improved. Right now, it's a bit expensive."
"The solution should provide more security for certificate-based services so that we can implement more security on that."
"Needs easier integration with the existing SIAM."
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F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 55 reviews while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 40 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". 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". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, whereas Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is most compared with AWS WAF, Citrix NetScaler, Azure Front Door, Cloudflare Web Application Firewall and HAProxy. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway report.
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