HAProxy and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway are strong competitors in the load balancing category. HAProxy has the upper hand in performance and flexibility, while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway excels in security and integration within the Azure ecosystem.
Features: HAProxy provides high performance with TCP/IP Layer 4 load balancing, advanced traffic rules, and support for numerous algorithms, appealing for its open-source customization. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway offers robust Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities, efficient traffic management, and seamless integration with Azure services.
Room for Improvement: HAProxy users seek better documentation, GUI enhancements, and improved monitoring capabilities. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway faces criticism for its pricing structure, initial deployment complexity, and protocol support limitations.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: HAProxy is favored for on-premises setups due to its straightforward installation and community support, though technical support and documentation could improve. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is praised for its seamless public cloud deployments, robust customer service, and integration with other Microsoft services.
Pricing and ROI: HAProxy is cost-effective with a free open-source version, and its enterprise edition offers added features and support worth its price. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway's pay-as-you-go model can be more expensive but offers value through enhanced features and integration, crucial for users within the Azure ecosystem.
HAProxy is considered by many in the industry to be one of the fastest and most popular and trusted software load balancer products in the marketplace today. Organizations are able to immediately deploy HAProxy solutions to enable websites and applications to optimize performance, security, and observability. HAProxy solutions are available to scale to any environment.
HAProxy is an open-source product and has a robust, active, reliable community. The solutions are continually tested and improved on by the community. HAProxy offers a dynamic design to support the most modern architectures, microservices, and deployment environments (appliances, containers, virtual, and cloud).
HAProxy utilizes a cloud-native protocol, which makes it a complete solution for cloud services such as Red Hat OpenShift, OVH, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and more. It also can be used as the reference load balancer in OpenStack.
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Reviews from Real Users
“Having the right load balancing solution – which is what HAProxy is – and protection in place gives organizations peace of mind.” - Nathanel S., Platform Architect at SES
“I use HAProxy for individuals who can not buy low balancers. I built NFV in a box and send individuals a pathway into an HAProxy VM. The setup was not difficult; it usually takes a day to complete for a VPC. When it comes to pricing, HAProxy is free.” - Nasir O., Network & Cloud Architect at Koala Compute Inc.
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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