Aviatrix vs. F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)

This product offers simple ways to manage network routing between public cloud, on-prem, and external network. It has built-in options to secure network traffic, as well as option to direct traffic to 3rd party security products for a more advanced traffic inspection. The core function works and is easy to operate. On the other hand, I am unable to give it more than 7-star because some useful features are lacking. This includes lack of customization in email alerting, IPS policy management, and temproarily admin-down of an established site to site VPN connection.

Incentivized

I think that the platform is well suited to many Remote Access VPN solutions, but I also think there is a lot of room for improvement on the backend. If you are hoping to deploy your APM solution across many different datacenters or colos, it may not be the best choice for the final solution.

Incentivized

• With a few very easy steps to establish routing between AWS VPC
• Easy procedures to establish site to site VPN connection with external parties.
• Provide network access control on routing traffic using its own build-in firewall inspection or directing traffic to 3rd party NGFW for full stack inspection.

Incentivized

• SAML 2.0 identity federation support.
• Integrates with third-party SSO solutions.
• Bridging modern authentication and authorization (SAML, OAuth/OIDC) and classic authentication and authorization methods.
• Policy routing

Incentivized

• It lacks of ways to admin-down an established site to site VPN connections is one of the short coming.
• In network traffic inspection, it lacks options to customize the IPS function is another short coming.
• While the product allows lots of email alerting options, it lacks ways to customize the alerting email messages and ways to suppress alert flooding.

Incentivized

• There's some more advanced configurations within OAuth that I think could be fleshed out and easier to approach.
• There's a lot of things in F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager policies that I find myself recreating every policy. An easier way to copy objects from one to policy to another.

Incentivized

Integration with F5 BIG-IP systems that we plan to keep using for a while.

Incentivized

The core function of the product works very well. It really makes network traffic management easy in public clound, as well as crossing different public and private cloud platform.

Incentivized

Once things are set up, it is nice and easy to get the Edge Client running on user's PCs. However, that setup process can be a bit daunting at first using the Policy Manager, and reviewing session logs can be difficult at first if you aren't 100% sure of what you're looking for.

Incentivized

Very responsive and very strong technical skill even on the first teir support.

Incentivized

We initially tried using the native routing funcitons in AWS (transit gateway) and in Azure (virtual network). While those native options worked, it became difficult to opeate when we tried to impose security inspection on the routing traffic. This leads us to the Aviatrix solution.

Incentivized

It is open platform so support is not good and than F5 and features visibility as not good as F5. F5 Set up and easy to use to admin console. Also have more feature visibility for load balancing, web server accelerator, application server ddos protection and WAF. F5 more efficient to handle concurrent request.

Incentivized

• Reduce labor hours for network admin to manage public clound network routing policy.
• Build-in security features may be good enough for small/medium size companies, and thus saving money from full funciton NGFW solution.
• The Cost-IQ feature enable one to capture traffic volume of each VPC. This provides one way for the enterprise to perform cost charge back to various business funcitons at the VPC level.

Incentivized

• Single sign on is great for students and faculty and staff
• Users don't have to log in multiple times
• Users don't need to remember multiple login IDs and passwords
• Multi Domain SSO support bridges many internal and external facing products with single sign on

Incentivized