We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It does an excellent job of load balancing."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"I find Application Gateway’s WAF module valuable because it helps prevent layer 7 attacks."
"I like the tool's stability and performance."
"In my experience, Microsoft products have a smooth integration and facilitate easy management and monitoring. Using Azure Application Gateway allows us to efficiently handle the system loads."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway are the policies, the data store they are using, and the cloud platform it operates on."
"Some of the key features of this solution are the low-level maintenance required, floating proxy service, and load balancing."
"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to set up the rules easily."
"When configuring a web application firewall using Signal Sciences, we configure a rule whereby no one except a few people can access the application."
"Fastly (Signal Sciences) integrates and tags the intermittent traffic based on patterns. It generates signals and provides them in a dashboard where we can view them and decide whether to allow or deny traffic. It's a more advanced and easy-to-navigate dashboard."
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"Implementing and standardizing the solution across the IT landscape in a heterogeneous environment is painful."
"The support provided for the solution has certain shortcomings that need improvement, especially when it comes to the response time from the support team."
"Needs easier integration with the existing SIAM."
"The solution doesn’t support wildcard-based and regular expression-based rules."
"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."
"The monitoring on the solution could be better."
"The graphical interface needs improvement because it is not user friendly."
"The working speed of the solution needs improvement."
"The areas that could be improved in Signal Sciences include the effectiveness of rules, as many didn't function optimally and required custom rule-writing to address bypasses for WAF."
"Even if we create some custom rules, Signal Sciences cannot capture some of the malicious traffic."
"Fastly don't support caching for China users. That's the only feature lacking compared to Akamai."
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Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 41 reviews while The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) is ranked 24th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 3 reviews. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is rated 7.2, while The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway writes "High stability with built-in rules that reduce alerts and are easy to configure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) writes "Offers Varnish Configuration Language (VCL) and provides enhanced dashboards, making it easy to identify and allow or deny traffic based on the signals it provides". Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Citrix NetScaler, AWS WAF, Cloudflare Web Application Firewall and Azure Front Door, whereas The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) is most compared with AWS WAF, Cloudflare, Azure Web Application Firewall, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Akamai App and API Protector. See our Microsoft Azure Application Gateway vs. The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) report.
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