Compare F5 Advanced WAF vs. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway
F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 6th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 10 reviews while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is ranked 12th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 2 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 9.2, while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Provides load-balancing and security for our enterprise-level clients". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway writes "Stable and simple to use with good technical support". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Citrix NetScaler AppFirewall and Fortinet FortiWeb, whereas Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is most compared with F5 BIG-IP, AWS WAF and F5 Advanced WAF.
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This solution is an enterprise-class firewall that provides both load-balancing and security. The anti-bot protection is the solution's most valuable feature. Safe-guard or credential staffing are also useful features. This solution inspects your traffic and based on that, automatically create distinct qualities for you, so you can add this to the policy already created. That's what I like most. The solution isn't too expensive. The license allows you to license what you need and leave out what you don't need. I definitely recommend this solution because of the time you save on analysis. The best solution for WAF. With F5 Advanced WAF, it was protection for online publications and for our customers that caused us to choose the platform. The most valuable feature is artificial intelligence and to get extra internal access. | The simplicity of the solution and its ability to integrate easily with others are its most valuable aspects. We chose this solution in the first place because it has access to Layer 7. I can control the requests and the content, which I can access on my network if I want to even if it's forbidden access to other external resources. If I want to monitor, for example, traffic, and apply this rule on Layer 7, I can do so. This was our main goal when implementing this application. We wanted to take advantage of the Gateway capabilities. |
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This solution can be made more user-friendly. The solution's dashboard could be improved. When you're moving from policy to policy, the logs and the integration of the logs in other systems aren't straightforward. I would not expect traffic details to pass through the web application firewall across the length of the whole application. I think that there is a web application where it can let the application function without traffic going in into the WAF. The solution is tedious. It takes a lot of discrete settings so one needs to get detailed and granular when they use the solution. It takes you a whole lot of energy and concentration to configure. It needs to be much more straight-forward, like other web solutions. One thing that can be improved, is to increase the quantity over predefine policy. I think the deployment templates can be better. F5 Advanced WAF needs better integration within the application, like remote dashboards. The administrator's user interface and some of the settings can sometimes be very complicated to understand. | The pricing of the solution could be improved. Right now, it's a bit expensive. The pricing of the solution is a bit high. The solution should offer different pricing systems. |
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Licensing fees for this solution are paid on a yearly basis. After buying the program, you just pay for the support every year. I think the price is very high. The pricing is too high. | Information Not Available |
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Views 772 Comparisons 480 Reviews 9 Average Words per Review 441 Avg. Rating 9.1 | Views 4,575 Comparisons 4,079 Reviews 1 Average Words per Review 372 Avg. Rating 8.0 |
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Also Known As | |
| Azure Application Gateway | |
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| F5 | Microsoft |
Overview | |
At F5, we give our customers the freedom to securely deliver every app, anywhere—with confidence. All F5 products are highly programmable and integrate into any environment, whether on premises or in any cloud. To date, 48 of the Fortune 50 companies rely on F5 to deliver apps that customers and employees can securely access at any time, on any device, from any location. | Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. Traditional load balancers operate at the transport layer (OSI layer 4 - TCP and UDP) and route traffic based on source IP address and port, to a destination IP address and port. |
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Learn more about F5 Advanced WAF | Learn more about Microsoft Azure Application Gateway |
Sample Customers | |
| MAXIMUS, Vivo, American Systems, Bangladesh Post Office, City Bank | Lilly, AccuWeather, AIRFRANCE, Honeywell, |
Top Industries | |
Software R&D Company26% Comms Service Provider14% K 12 Educational Company Or School11% Energy/Utilities Company9% | Software R&D Company45% Comms Service Provider10% Media Company8% Government7% |
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