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Azure Front Door vs NGINX App Protect comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Customer Service

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Azure Front Door's customer service is praised for knowledgeable support, timely responses, and excellent documentation aiding user understanding.
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NGINX App Protect customer support has mixed reviews, with varying responsiveness and cost opinions, and issues with occasional slow responses.
 

Room For Improvement

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Azure Front Door needs better compatibility, competitive pricing, enhanced features, improved performance, and more comprehensive updates for wider adoption.
Sentiment score
4.2
NGINX App Protect faces issues with configuration, costs, support, integration, documentation, upgrades, security, automation, and communication about features.
 

Scalability Issues

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Azure Front Door offers enterprise-level scalability, supporting global operations and seamless maintenance, earning high user ratings for performance.
Sentiment score
8.0
NGINX App Protect's scalability is mixed, with good results for small groups but issues with larger deployments and management.
 

Setup Cost

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Azure Front Door offers cost-effective, scalable solutions with affordable licensing, though premium tiers have higher expenses for added features.
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NGINX App Protect pricing ranges from $3,000 to $40,000+ annually based on architecture, usage, and renewal costs.
 

Stability Issues

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Azure Front Door is reliable and robust with minimal availability issues, though DNS record setup can occasionally be problematic.
Sentiment score
8.5
NGINX App Protect is reliable and efficient, scoring highly in stability, but could improve in HTML5 availability.
 

Valuable Features

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Azure Front Door offers traffic inspection, SSL offloading, scalability, easy setup, affordability, WAF, load balancing, and global resource implementation.
Sentiment score
7.8
Users value NGINX App Protect for flexible deployment, security features, robust functionality, and seamless integration into CICD pipelines.
 

Categories and Ranking

Azure Front Door
Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)
10th
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
CDN (2nd), Microsoft Security Suite (15th)
NGINX App Protect
Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)
16th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
Container Security (21st), API Security (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category, the mindshare of Azure Front Door is 4.3%, down from 7.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NGINX App Protect is 2.2%, down from 2.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
 

Featured Reviews

Thomas Zebar - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides great security with a good application firewall
The initial setup is straightforward. If you want to use the portal, CLI, or PowerShare, or you want to use automation data for one month, it's straightforward. Even when it comes to operational maintenance, it's pretty easy and straightforward. Microsoft has done a great job on that front. Maintenance generally requires someone who is a cloud administrator or similar to maintain services in general, with Front Door a small piece of a larger maintenance requirement. There's not a lot to manage, the configuration is simple. I encourage people to document the configuration and infrastructure as well as disaster recovery in case anything happens.
Tomaz Sobczak - PeerSpot reviewer
Signature-based detection, DOS protection, and bot protection
NGINX App Protect is easier to automate and configure, or manage from an API. This is good for securing applications. However, it's not suitable for more complex tasks. NGINX App Protect positively impacted performance changes. There's a cache or it works like a proxy, so it can speed up applications. It can also offload some functions from servers, which NGINX can handle faster.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Energy/Utilities Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Front Door?
It's a matter of value versus price. If we add more features and raise the price, it must remain justifiable. If we maintain the current set of reasonable features and keep the pricing competitive,...
What needs improvement with NGINX App Protect?
The product's price is high, making it an area of concern where improvements are required. The tool's licensing model is also not good. The product should have more documentation, especially like t...
 

Also Known As

Azure Front-Door
NGINX WAF, NGINX Web Application Firewall
 

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