Microsoft Azure Application Gateway Reviews

Name: Microsoft Azure Application Gateway
Brand: Microsoft
Rating: 3.6 (46 reviews)

Vendor: Microsoft

3.6 out of 5

46 reviews
78% willing to recommend

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What is Microsoft Azure Application Gateway?

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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Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is the #3 ranked solution in top Web Application Firewalls and #4 ranked solution in top Application Delivery Controllers. PeerSpot users give Microsoft Azure Application Gateway an average rating of 7.2 out of 10. Based on the analysis of the 46 most recent Microsoft Azure Application Gateway reviews, the overall sentiment is positive, with a sentiment score of 6.8. (Among the lowest in the category). Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is most commonly compared to F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM): Microsoft Azure Application Gateway vs F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM). Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 64% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 16% of all views.

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Microsoft Azure Application Gateway

December 2024

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Sami

Cyber Security Consultant at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Our company uses the solution to publish services that are on Azure. There is more than one way to publish services. You can use the Microsoft infrastructure for app services including small programming, configurations related to obligations, and publishing. Or you can publish manually by using…

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Sooryanarayan Hegde

Technical Architect at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We use all the features. It is very useful. Using WAF, we can control the WAF rules based on our application requirements. We can control what rules should be used and what should be disabled. The role of the tool is limited to HTTP traffic. It does exactly what it must do. It's a regional service. We know how to use it for DR scenarios. WAF has been the most valuable in protecting applications. We use at least three instances in the back end to give the best performance for our applications. The management and configuration of the solution is quite easy. All certificate renewals are automatically taken care of by Key Vault.

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Shaik Fareed

Senior Network Engineer at Eyegear

The tool helps manage microservices by providing developers with a platform to conduct tests and assessments on the web application. The custom domain option is one of the most valuable features I've found. This feature is incredibly helpful for the end-users of the web application. With the custom domain feature, you can change the lengthy link to a shorter, more memorable one. For example, instead of using a lengthy default link, you can customize it to something like imail.com, which is much easier to remember and share. It also comes with a DNS feature. The tool is easy to integrate with other platforms.

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Microsoft Azure Application Gateway mindshare

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As of December 2024, the mindshare of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway in the Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) category stands at 8.6%, down from 11.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)

PeerAnalyst reports

Type	Title	Date
Category	Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)	Dec 29, 2024	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Dec 29, 2024	Download
Comparison	Microsoft Azure Application Gateway vs NetScaler	Dec 29, 2024	Download
Comparison	Microsoft Azure Application Gateway vs F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)	Dec 29, 2024	Download
Comparison	Microsoft Azure Application Gateway vs HAProxy	Dec 29, 2024	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)	4.1	15.1%	83%	120 interviews Add to research
HAProxy	4.1	12.8%	91%	42 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"The solution integrates different applications and APIs securely, enhancing overall security and network optimization."
"The tool is easy to use and quite flexible. It has policy management features as well. The solution screens all traffic to our web applications before passing it to the application. We recently tested it on one of our poorly developed applications, and the upgrade gave us a 100% result based on our tests. It's very effective as a security measure, and people can detect threats even through the web application."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is an easy-to-use solution."

Room for Improvement

"The solution needs improvements in integrating different services and creating a better application balance."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is not scalable."
"The solution can sometimes feel a little cumbersome unless you're a professional infrastructure person."

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Pricing

Enterprise users of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway report mixed experiences regarding pricing. While some find it competitively priced, others consider it expensive compared to alternatives like AWS and Barracuda. A lack of annual licensing fees adds appeal, with costs structured on a pay-as-you-go basis, usage, scalability, and data transfer. The pricing model is generally seen as straightforward, with some users noting that Azure's costs can be advantageous when fully integrated with other Microsoft solutions.

"The solution's pricing is not complex. It is not expensive from our point of view."
"The solution is fairly priced."
"The solution is reasonably priced."