Astra Website Protection vs. Azure Application Gateway

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Astra Website Protection
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
Astra is a security suite for websites. Astra protects users against malware, credit card hack, RCE, SQLi, XSS, SEO spam, comments spam, brute force & 100+ types of threats. Astra offers a 24*7 active Web Application Firewall to protect stores in real-time, on-demand machine-learning powered malware scanner,, Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing (VAPT), IP blocking, country blocking, login activity, file upload rules, and several other features to provide 360° protection to…
$25
per month per installation
Azure Application Gateway
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft's Azure Application Gateway is a platform-managed, scalable, and highly available application delivery controller as a service with integrated web application firewall.N/A
Pricing
Astra Website ProtectionAzure Application Gateway
Editions & Modules
Pro
$25
per month per installation
Advanced
$79
per month per installation
Business
$199
per month per installation
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Astra Website ProtectionAzure Application Gateway
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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User Ratings
Astra Website ProtectionAzure Application Gateway
Likelihood to Recommend
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(8 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Astra Website ProtectionAzure Application Gateway
Likelihood to Recommend
Astra Security
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Microsoft
For building scalable and highly available applications, Azure Application Gateway does most of the job on behalf of you; automatically load-balancing traffic from a number of users to a number of back-end servers. This ensure scalability and availability. The in-built security is great as can be expected from Microsoft, and user has a variety of tools for monitoring the health of the load-balancing function as well as the health of back end servers behind it.
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Pros
Astra Security
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Microsoft
  • Easy integration with Load Balancer and Azure Scale Set to provide a full solution for traffic management.
  • With rich routing rule, we could use one Application Gateway as the central point for all internal applications to expose to the external network.
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Cons
Astra Security
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Microsoft
  • More cost-effective pricing plans are welcome for the future, especially for WAF
  • Ability to automate the TLS certificate renewal procedure
  • Ability to manage non-HTTP traffic
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Usability
Astra Security
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Microsoft
Most of the Application Gateway's features and services can be managed and re-configured via either the Azure Portal GUI or via the Azure Cloud Shell, thus allowing both CLI modes, i.e. Azure CLI (Bash) and Azure Powershell. The v2 version of Application Gateway has significantly improved performance during initial configuration or during re-configuration changes, thus making it much more usable for IT admins, as compared to v1.
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Support Rating
Astra Security
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Microsoft
I don’t like that it's part of the Microsoft brand. In general, I am not a fan of Microsoft products but Azure gets it right.
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Alternatives Considered
Astra Security
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Microsoft
Other load balancing tools in Azure (Azure LB and Azure Traffic Manager) are limited in their functionality in comparison with the Azure Application Gateway, and also, they don't provide security features. Azure Firewall, although it has security features, is more expensive, and most importantly, it's not a load balancer at all.
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Return on Investment
Astra Security
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Microsoft
  • Positive : Improved performance and scalability
  • Positive : Better and enhanced Security
  • Positive : Efficiency
  • Negative: Cost
  • Negative: More resources to manage.
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