We performed a comparison between Akamai App and API Protector and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."All the solution's features are very good."
"The features are powerful and better than F5."
"The support that we got from their technical team has been fantastic. I have never experienced this level of support from other CDN providers."
"The solution easily identifies, delays, or allows business traffic."
"The CDN and the WAF features are the best."
"I can attest to its benefits in terms of understanding and mitigating threats...The solution's technical support team seems to be pretty responsive."
"The most valuable feature is the DDoS protection, which is the main reason we got it."
"Traffic filtering and WAF are valuable."
"The solution's most valuable feature is an HTTP solution and SSL certificate. It is also easy to use."
"We can control what rules should be used and what should be disabled."
"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."
"This is a SaaS product, so it is always up to date."
"Load balancing and web application firewall features are the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is traffic management."
"The pricing is quite good."
"It is a scalable solution...The installation phase of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is very easy."
"If we talk about application layer attacks, including WAF, CloudFlare is leading. Akamai can focus a bit more on the application layer attacks and how to protect them."
"They are already very flexible, but room for improvement is there. Reports generation could be better and should be improved."
"It would be better if there weren't any issues with latency. We had latency issues, but I think they are all solved now."
"The solution could offer even more integrations."
"Support and the pricing need to improve."
"The interface is a little bit clunky and can be improved."
"A lot of piracy happens in India and other countries. If there is a product for protection from piracy, it would be great. For example, there are multiple hackers that hack your event, and there are some channels that pirate and publish the event on some other website. We protect our streaming through DRM and different technologies. We are also protecting the website, but hacking is still happening. If they can work on protecting from piracy, it would be great."
"The product should provide a secure NTP."
"The pricing of the solution could be improved. Right now, it's a bit expensive."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway's first deployment is complex. It needs to improve its pricing."
"The tool is a pain to deal with when it comes to the area of configuration."
"The solution should provide more security for certificate-based services so that we can implement more security on that."
"The working speed of the solution needs improvement."
"Application Gateway’s limitation is that the private and the public endpoint cannot use the same port."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"The monitoring on the solution could be better."
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Akamai App and API Protector is ranked 8th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 27 reviews while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews. Akamai App and API Protector is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Akamai App and API Protector writes "Easy to learn and gives us a report of traffic". 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". Akamai App and API Protector is most compared with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, AWS WAF, Prolexic, AWS Shield and Arbor DDoS, whereas Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is most compared with Azure Front Door, Citrix NetScaler, F5 Advanced WAF, AWS WAF and Fortinet FortiWeb. See our Akamai App and API Protector vs. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway report.
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