We performed a comparison between F5 Silverline Managed Services 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."The initial setup is very straightforward."
"It's a good front end for public infrastructure"
"The product’s UI is easy to understand."
"The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is its cloud-native functionality and the high level of protection it provides."
"The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is it becomes similar to a distributed architecture."
"We have a lot of businesses that we put behind this solution, and it has really helped us in terms of monitoring the logs and incidents."
"The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is the benchmark performance."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The production is a valuable feature."
"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 feature is WAF."
"We use the product in front-end and back-end applications to do the load balancing smartly."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"Load balancing and web application firewall features are the most valuable."
"We can control what rules should be used and what should be disabled."
"The solution's most valuable feature is an HTTP solution and SSL certificate. It is also easy to use."
"In terms of the scalability, this part is always so confusing because they are checking for packet count. Also, after an attack, they said that the throughput must be from gigabits but then I check my bandwidth and it is already done in gigabits. So it is a little bit confusing."
"There is room for improvement in the stability of the solution."
"The price of F5 Silverline Managed Services could be better."
"F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall, being a new product in the market or comparatively related to a new product, currently supports less number of PoPs. They should introduce more PoPs. The current number of PoPs that they have is around 10 or 12, which is still relatively less as compared to 2,400 plus PoPs that Akamai offers. The user latency or the number of hops a user needs before reaching the actual web application is less in Akamai because it has its internal fabric to route the traffic. They need to spin up more data to increase its traffic handling capability. They can also include the bot detection capability, though it is a pretty advanced functionality. If they could include DataDome like functionality, that is, bot prediction, then F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall will be top-notch in the market."
"I just hope the price can be cheaper."
"F5 Silverline Managed Services can improve by reducing the price."
"The price is high in comparison to other products."
"There is a lot of room for improvement with their tech support. I am not sure F5 Silverline Managed Services can be classified as having tech support."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway could improve by allowing features to use more third-party tools."
"Scalability can be an issue."
"The increased security that we are considering is because of some of the things that the security team has brought to our attention. They have pointed out that we would most likely require a better web application firewall than Azure Application Gateway."
"One of the challenges we faced was the solution does not support any other PCP protocols apart from HTTP and HTTPS."
"The pricing of the solution could be improved. Right now, it's a bit expensive."
"It does not have the flexibility for using public IPs in version 2."
"The tool is a pain to deal with when it comes to the area of configuration."
"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."
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F5 Silverline Managed Services is ranked 19th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 14 reviews while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews. F5 Silverline Managed Services is rated 7.6, while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of F5 Silverline Managed Services writes "It is flexible and lets you easily apply policies, but it needs to support more PoPs". 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 Silverline Managed Services is most compared with Cloudflare, Arbor DDoS, AWS WAF, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and F5 Advanced WAF, whereas Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is most compared with Azure Front Door, Citrix NetScaler, F5 Advanced WAF, AWS WAF and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. See our F5 Silverline Managed Services vs. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway report.
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