We performed a comparison between AWS 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 Results: Based on the parameters we compared, AWS WAF has a slight edge over Microsoft Azure Application Gateway. Our reviewers found Microsoft to have challenges with stability, scalability, and support.
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"The product’s availability, ease of configuration, and documentation are valuable."
"Its best feature is that it is on the cloud and does not require local hardware resources."
"What I like best about AWS WAF is that it's a simple tool, so I could understand the basics of AWS WAF in two to three hours."
"The most valuable feature is that it is very easy to configure. It just takes a couple of minutes."
"AWS has flexibility in terms of WAF rules."
"As a basic WAF, it's better than nothing. So if you need something simple out of the box with default features, AWS WAF is good."
"The tool’s stability is very good."
"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."
"This is a SaaS product, so it is always up to date."
"The security feature in all the layers of the application is the most valuable."
"The solution was very easy to configure. It wasn't hard at all to adjust it to our needs."
"We use the product in front-end and back-end applications to do the load balancing smartly."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is traffic management."
"The simplicity of the solution and its ability to integrate easily with others are its most valuable aspects."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway gives us a lot of benefits, including domain mapping."
"The solution can improve its price."
"The solution could be more reliable."
"They have to do more to improve, to innovate more features. They need to increase the security. It has to be more active in detecting threats."
"We should be able to do proper whitelisting."
"For now, there is no feature to protect against attack of the bad bots"
"The solution's pricing could be improved."
"AWS WAF could improve by making the overall management easier. Many people that have started working with AWS WAF do not have an easy time. They should make it easy to use."
"The pricing model is complicated."
"The tool is a pain to deal with when it comes to the area of configuration."
"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."
"The product could be easier to use and implement."
"The pricing of the solution is a bit high. The solution should offer different pricing systems."
"The graphical interface needs improvement because it is not user friendly."
"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."
"The solution could improve by increasing the performance when doing updates. For example, if I change the certificate it can take 30 minutes. Other vendors do not have this type of problem."
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AWS WAF is ranked 1st in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 52 reviews while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 40 reviews. AWS WAF is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of AWS WAF writes "A highly stable solution that helps mitigate different kinds of bot attacks and SQL injection attacks". 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". AWS WAF is most compared with Azure Web Application Firewall, F5 Advanced WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall, Cloudflare Web Application Firewall and Fortinet FortiWeb, whereas Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, F5 Advanced WAF, Azure Front Door, Cloudflare Web Application Firewall and HAProxy. See our AWS WAF vs. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway report.
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