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Airlock vs Microsoft Azure Application Gateway comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Airlock
Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)
41st
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
9.2
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Azure Application...
Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)
11th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
50
Ranking in other categories
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (12th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category, the mindshare of Airlock is 0.7%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is 3.0%, down from 7.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Application Firewall (WAF) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Azure Application Gateway3.0%
Airlock0.7%
Other96.3%
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
 

Featured Reviews

Tiodor Jovovic - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Business Officer at Sky Express
Provides endless features and can be adapted to every single application that exists in the world
WAF is the most beneficial feature for security posture. Our customers are more than satisfied with the user experience provided by the product. The level of detail of the configuration is the most significant aspect. We can adapt it to every single application that exists in the world. The product helps with the compliance processes.
SS
Cloud Specialist at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Mutual TLS has secured our web services and now needs broader protocol support
The most valuable feature we have found in Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is mutual TLS. We find mutual TLS valuable because we can verify the client securely by setting up the trust certificate of the client, and also if we do it at the client side as well. This successfully develops mutual trust, ensuring that we know the client who is calling our service is a legitimate client. That is a very nice feature.Microsoft Azure Application Gateway has helped manage our traffic efficiently because we have many web services that we can put behind the same URL, and we can have different URLs with the same Application Gateway with a limited number of listeners. We can do host-based routing as well as URL-based routing or path-based routing. It supports both, so we can have even a single URL supporting many applications, or we can have different URLs for different applications respectively. We have both use cases.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Our customers are more than satisfied with the user experience provided by the product."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the web application firewall (WAF)."
"Microsoft has a vast variety of tools, and it blends very well."
"We find it valuable because it is compatible with our existing Azure solution."
"This is a SaaS product, so it is always up to date."
"I believe it is up to the mark, as Microsoft security is bulletproof."
"Some of the key features of this solution are the low-level maintenance required, floating proxy service, and load balancing."
"We can control what rules should be used and what should be disabled."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway impacts our cost savings while maintaining higher performance."
 

Cons

"The tool must be simplified."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The user interface could be better."
"The main drawback of the solution is that it's only for Azure."
"The graphical interface needs improvement because it is not user friendly."
"Overall, it just wasn't a great product. It was lacking in a lot of areas."
"In future releases of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, I would to see more AI functionalities and a better dashboard as well as some customizations."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool is cheap."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway has less price than other application gateway solutions."
"Regarding pricing for Azure Application Gateway, I would rate it at seven."
"The tool's pricing model is pay-as-you-go."
"The solution is paid monthly. The solution is highly expensive."
"The product is not expensive."
"Between v1 and v2, there is a lot of change in the pricing. It is very costly compared to AWS."
"I would rate the pricing a three out of ten, with ten being cheap and one being expensive."
"The solution is reasonably priced."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
11%
Construction Company
9%
Government
9%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise24
 

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Also Known As

Airlock Suite
Azure Application Gateway, MS Azure Application Gateway
 

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Sample Customers

Raiffeisen, SGKB, Generali, Visana
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