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."I find Application Gateway’s WAF module valuable because it helps prevent layer 7 attacks."
"It has a filter available, although we are not currently using it because it is not part of our requirements. But it is a good option and when it becomes part of our requirements we will definitely use it."
"We use the product in front-end and back-end applications to do the load balancing smartly."
"It does an excellent job of load balancing."
"The solution has built-in rules that reduce alerts and are easy to configure."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"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 of the solution is the web application firewall (WAF)."
"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."
"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."
"This solution has everything."
"Nginx is extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio, and in terms of the bandwidth to CPU cycles."
"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."
"The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is simple to configure."
"The web proxy and the database proxy are excellent."
"One of the challenges we faced was the solution does not support any other PCP protocols apart from HTTP and HTTPS."
"The configuration is very specific right now and needs to be much more flexible."
"The working speed of the solution needs improvement."
"The support can be improved when you are configuring the system rules. The Disaster Recovery feature can be added in the next release. The price of the solution can be reduced a bit."
"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."
"Application Gateway’s limitation is that the private and the public endpoint cannot use the same port."
"It is a bit tricky to configure. You've got to have a very specific format to configure it. They should make it a little bit easier to configure. Mapping the certificates into it isn't easy, and it could be better. Currently, you've to write a bit of automation to pull certificates directly to HTTPS."
"The pricing of the solution is a bit high. The solution should offer different pricing systems."
"The solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The user interface could be improved."
"I would like to see the Grafana integration in NGINX which is already present in HAProxy. Grafana integration will help the solution visualize all the data analytics on the dashboard which is currently not present."
"It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain."
"The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."
"I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"The solution needs to be easier to setup and deploy."
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Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is ranked 4th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 21 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 16 reviews. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is rated 7.4, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway writes "The solution comes with a strong WAF module but needs more features added to it". 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 Azure Front Door, Citrix NetScaler, F5 Advanced WAF, Cloudflare Web Application Firewall and NGINX App Protect, 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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