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Amazon Elastic Load Balancing vs Microsoft Azure Application Gateway comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
10th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Azure Application...
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
3rd
Average Rating
7.2
Number of Reviews
46
Ranking in other categories
Web Application Firewall (WAF) (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) category, the mindshare of Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is 1.4%, down from 2.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is 8.8%, down from 11.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
 

Featured Reviews

Mridu Boruah - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 11, 2023
A tool that offers its users resiliency, high availability, and a great scalability
In my company, we use it to post, you know, a variety of business applications, like ERP, finance applications, and legal applications, which we post using EC2 instances The most valuable feature of the solution is its pay-as-you-go model. You don't pay when you shut down the instances. The…
Sami - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 29, 2022
High stability with built-in rules that reduce alerts and are easy to configure
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…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is a very scalable solution in which you can add more servers instantly."
"It has very good features. It is very configurable. Security with TLS, et cetera is also very easy."
"The Elastic Load Balancer facilitates the distribution of incoming application traffic, which directs requests to various servers, preventing overload on a single instance."
"The feature that I like the most is the scalability. The solutions I build often have many pieces, which are very complicated. If a client comes to me with a design, my developer has made this as a template or a cloud formation script. It's a design on paper, and I want it executed a certain way. I can do that quickly and repeatedly with AWS. That is a considerable advantage because I can take that template and do it five times in different zones. That is an excellent feature based on a template, et cetera."
"The solution offers good load balancing."
"We use the solution for internet-exposed websites and internal load-balancing purposes."
"Amazon Elastic Load Balancing transfers the data securely from servers to users and splits the traffic based on peak times."
"The tool integrates well with Amazon native services. Its valuable feature is integrations."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is its ease of use."
"I like the tool's stability and performance."
"It does an excellent job of load balancing."
"The solution has built-in rules that reduce alerts and are easy to configure."
"The simplicity of the solution and its ability to integrate easily with others are its most valuable aspects."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway gives us a lot of benefits, including domain mapping."
"Using policies to link and manage these URL-based routing configurations is also valuable."
 

Cons

"The reporting could be simplified so that the client sees a report of what they cached at the end of the month and the number of hits. It should have metrics above and beyond their Google analytics, etc. You can't do that with the solutions from AWS. You have to build sophisticated cloud trails, reports, dashboards, etc. The setup is significant, and it's hard to manage. You'll need to hire someone or pay a consultant on a regular basis to manage it, and it's not for the faint of heart."
"Improvement is needed in the integration with Terraform, especially in writing scripts for creating load balancers and target groups."
"The product's stability is an area with a slight shortcoming, which can be improved."
"The solution needs to guarantee stability because multiple loads behind a load balancer can cause service unavailability."
"We faced some issues with the health check."
"The tool could enhance the internal load balancer with better health monitoring. The external load balancer needs more security parameters to protect it from the internet, as it currently lacks protection. It's okay for basic load balancing and those looking for basic functionality in an application load balancer. However, if someone is going to onboard a critical application, like in the banking sector, I wouldn't suggest Amazon Elastic Load Balancer because of security issues. There are no firewall restrictions."
"One issue that we faced with ALB was that leaf-level certificate validation was not happening. It is not that user-friendly in that aspect."
"The machines created by Amazon Elastic Load Balancing have different IP addresses, which we are not able to whitelist or predict."
"We faced some downtime while validating CNAME."
"Implementing and standardizing the solution across the IT landscape in a heterogeneous environment is painful."
"The solution has many limitations. You cannot upgrade the VPN to the application gateway. So I started with version one, which has limited capabilities, and they provided version two. And unfortunately, I cannot upgrade from v one to v two like other services. So I have to decommission the version one and create a new one with version two. Also the version one was complex with the certificates uploading the SQL certificates."
"The solution needs improvements in integrating different services and creating a better application balance."
"It could be more stable, and support could be better. It would also be better if they offered more features. For example, it lacks security features. Before we used another English solution, and we realized that some of the rules were not set up correctly and passed through the Application Gateway's English controllers. But the problem, in this case, is if you send ten rules, for example, six rules hit some issues. IP address blocking could be better. The rules, for example, don't work properly. If you have one issue, one rule or another rule will not work. This sounds like total madness to me."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is not scalable."
"It could be easier to change servicing."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution's pricing is $30 per month."
"The licensing fees are based on the number of connections one uses. It is a free tool for a certain amount of connections, which runs into thousands, and after that, there is a certain amount to be paid to Amazon."
"The product is not cheap."
"There is a yearly license."
"I have no issues with the tool's pricing."
"The solution's pricing is low and I rate it a nine out of ten."
"The solution is expensive."
"The solution is reasonably priced compared to other solutions."
"The product is expensive. I rate the pricing a seven out of ten."
"I rate the pricing seven out of ten because some third-party solutions are even costlier than this."
"The cost is not an issue."
"It is an expensive solution. We have an enterprise agreement, it is monthly."
"The solution's pricing is not complex. It is not expensive from our point of view."
"The solution is fairly priced."
"It is not expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
60%
Computer Software Company
8%
Government
4%
Manufacturing Company
4%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon Elastic Load Balancing?
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing transfers the data securely from servers to users and splits the traffic based on peak times.
What needs improvement with Amazon Elastic Load Balancing?
The tool could enhance the internal load balancer with better health monitoring. The external load balancer needs more security parameters to protect it from the internet, as it currently lacks pro...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Elastic Load Balancing?
We use the solution for internet-exposed websites and internal load-balancing purposes.
What's the difference between Azure Front Door and Application Gateway?
We found Azure Front Door to be easily scaled and very stable. The implementation is very fast and Microsoft provides excellent support. Azure Front Door can quickly detect abnormalities before the...
How does AWS WAF compare to Microsoft Azure Application Gateway?
Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether Amazon’s Web Service Web Application Firewall or Microsoft Azure Application Gateway web application firewall software was the better fit ...
What do you like most about Microsoft Azure Application Gateway?
Application Gateway automatically redirects unwanted users and takes care of the security aspect. It also handles the performance side of things, which is why we use it.
 

Also Known As

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Azure Application Gateway, MS Azure Application Gateway
 

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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
Lilly, AccuWeather, AIRFRANCE, Honeywell
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