What users are saying about

AWS WAF vs Azure Application Gateway

AWS WAF
21 Ratings
Azure Application Gateway
46 Ratings

AWS WAF

21 Ratings
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Score 8.8 out of 100

Based on 21 reviews and ratings

Azure Application Gateway

46 Ratings
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Score 8.6 out of 100

Based on 46 reviews and ratings

Attribute Ratings

  • AWS WAF is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
  • Azure Application Gateway is rated higher in 1 area: Support Rating

Likelihood to Recommend

9.4

AWS WAF

94%
7 Ratings
8.5

Azure Application Gateway

85%
9 Ratings

Likelihood to Renew

9.0

AWS WAF

90%
1 Rating

Azure Application Gateway

N/A
0 Ratings

Usability

9.0

AWS WAF

90%
1 Rating

Azure Application Gateway

N/A
0 Ratings

Support Rating

9.1

AWS WAF

91%
3 Ratings
10.0

Azure Application Gateway

100%
2 Ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

AWS WAF

AWS WAF is highly appropriate to interrupt or prevent cyber attacks because when implementing rules, whether they are specific or centralized, so any application that has these vulnerabilities is protected.
Implementing managed rules creates greater security to protect both API and applications.If implemented along with other AWS tools, the security is much better, so if you want to protect applications against more specific attacks, it is ideal to integrate with Amazon CloudFront, which is a great benefit because it warns when thresholds are exceeded or specific attacks occur.AWS WAF is ideal to avoid common web attacks. For more specific attacks and scenarios, I don't recommend this.

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Hanna Bedoya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Hanna Bedoya
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Azure Application Gateway

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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Janne Mikola | TrustRadius Reviewer
Janne Mikola
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Pros

AWS WAF

  • AWS WAF has the most developer-friendly API to create firewall rules.
  • AWS WAF provides OWASP security controls, which reduces developers' burden (i.e., SQL injection and cross-site scripting).
  • AWS WAF has customizable web security rules. The user can even push the rules through the API available, which is the great feature and helped me a lot.
  • It protects applications at layer 7 (HTTP) of the OSI model and not just layer 4 (TCP).

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Saim Jamali | TrustRadius Reviewer
Saim Jamali
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Azure Application Gateway

  • Azure Application Gateway helps with URL/URI load balancing.
  • Azure Application Gateway offers great technical support.
  • The software provides automatic scaling of resources for the demand.
  • No issues were encountered while deploying the software and after.

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Pamela Kajumba | TrustRadius Reviewer
Pamela Kajumba
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Cons

AWS WAF

  • The documentation offered is somewhat confusing, so it would be ideal if it were much more direct and precise.
  • Your initial configuration may be confusing, so the best option is to use the rule templates provided by AWS.
  • Its configuration is not unified with AWS, so it must be done separately and it takes some time.
  • The number of rules to be established is somewhat limited.

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maría jose gonzalez ortiz | TrustRadius Reviewer
maría jose gonzalez ortiz
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Azure Application Gateway

  • The ease of setting up a connection to the on-premises sql server to any of the Azure cloud data solutions. One can easily stand up new virtual machines and then create a separate Application Gateway to work with each of the Azure solutions like Azure Data factory or Azure Machine Learning.
  • Also, we can schedule the jobs to be run at a particular time and also on-demand so we would always have the data whenever we will need it.

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Mounika Chirasani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mounika Chirasani
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Pricing Details

AWS WAF

General

Free Trial
—
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

$0.6 per 1 million requests

AWS WAF Editions & Modules

Edition
Resource Type - Web ACL$5.001
Resource Type - Rule$1.001
Resource Type - Request$0.602
  1. per month (prorated hourly)
  2. per 1 million requests
Additional Pricing Details
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Azure Application Gateway

General

Free Trial
—
Free/Freemium Version
—
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

—

Azure Application Gateway Editions & Modules

—
Additional Pricing Details
—

Likelihood to Renew

AWS WAF

AWS WAF 9.0
Based on 1 answer
Good value for money. Native AWS solution for services

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Igor Zeiger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Igor Zeiger
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Azure Application Gateway

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

Usability

AWS WAF

AWS WAF 9.0
Based on 1 answer
The product is highly scalable. It is easy to configure the rules and thereby helps us to mitigate many vulnerabilities.The interface and programming of the firewall provisions were easy to setup. Amazon clearly spent a lot of time figuring this out and perfecting it. It allows users to do customized configurations based on their needs. It provides protection against a number of security issues like XSS, SQL injection, etc. I would definitely recommend this for protecting your infra as you scale, since this basically protects and filters all requests hitting your application server.

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Saim Jamali | TrustRadius Reviewer
Saim Jamali
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Azure Application Gateway

No score
No answers yet
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Support Rating

AWS WAF

AWS WAF 9.1
Based on 3 answers
If you're intending to use AWS WAF, I would say that you absolutely should sign up for support. AWS Support is excellent and they can help you in a really good way to solve your issues.

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Oscar Martinez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Oscar Martinez
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Azure Application Gateway

Azure Application Gateway 10.0
Based on 2 answers
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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Mounika Chirasani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mounika Chirasani
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Alternatives Considered

AWS WAF

We evaluated Imperva, but we were more convinced with AWS WAF because of the better pricing model, ease of deployment as we were already using the AWS platform which helping in ease of integration. The technical support for AWS WAF seemed to be better as they had better understanding of the overall system and architecture of the product, which helped us in getting a problem solved that was encountered while using AWS WAF. The amount of documentation and helpful material available online for AWS WAF made it the first choice for us to select this product over Imperva.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Verified User
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Azure Application Gateway

NGINX and Kong are open sources and we don't like open-source. We want an enterprise application that helps us in the production workload.

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Thao Vo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Thao Vo
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Return on Investment

AWS WAF

  • Our applications are less exposed to cyber attacks, which prevents them from getting out of control and consume much more resources than they should.
  • Saved us money by preventing attacks.
  • The traffic control is much more bearable.
  • App development is safer.

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Hanna Bedoya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Hanna Bedoya
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Azure Application Gateway

  • Costs increased for the company, so expenses were more than before.
  • Was able to get better user experience so users won't feel the website is useless.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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