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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure Application Gateway

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft'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

    Azure Functions

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AAzure Functions enables users to execute event-driven serverless code functions with an end-to-end development experience.

    $18

    per month approximately

    Pricing
    Azure Application GatewayAzure Functions
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    Azure Application GatewayAzure Functions
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Azure Application GatewayAzure Functions
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Azure Application GatewayAzure Functions
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Azure Application Gateway and Azure Functions
    Feature
    Azure Application Gateway
    -
    Ratings
    Azure Functions
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Azure Application Gateway and Azure Functions
    Feature
    Azure Application Gateway
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    Ratings
    Azure Functions
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Function as a Service (FaaS)
    Comparison of Function as a Service (FaaS) features of Azure Application Gateway and Azure Functions
    Feature
    Azure Application Gateway
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    Ratings
    Azure Functions
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Programming Language Diversity00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Runtime API Authoring00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Function/Database Integration00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    DevOps Stack Integration00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Azure Application GatewayAzure Functions
    Small Businesses
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    IBM Cloud Functions
    Score6.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    NetScaler
    Score8 out of 10
    AWS Lambda
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    NetScaler
    Score8 out of 10
    AWS Lambda
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Azure Application GatewayAzure Functions
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (9 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    Azure Application GatewayAzure Functions
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Microsoft
    It is well suited for REST APIs that need scalable functionality and for hosting microservices with a short life cycle. It is not well suited for Applications that need real-time features or heavy processing, such as image processing or model training, that need to stay up for longer periods and require compute.
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    Pros
    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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    Microsoft
    • They natively integrate with many triggers from other Azure services, like Blob Storage or Event Grid, which is super handy when creating cloud-native applications on Azure (data wrangling pipelines, business process automation, data ingestion for IoT, ...)
    • They natively support many common languages and frameworks, which makes them easily approachable by teams with a diverse background
    • They are cheap solutions for low-usage or "seasonal" applications that exhibits a recurring usage/non-usage pattern (batch processing, montly reports, ...)
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    Cons
    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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    Microsoft
    • Timing for creating new instances.
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    Usability
    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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    Microsoft
    Sometimes the Azure dashboard can feel confusing at first, and it can be hard to understand where things are. But overall, it has good integrations, is trustworthy for running there without disruptions, is well-documented and easy to implement, especially for newbies on the team, and has nice automated deployment features.
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    Support Rating
    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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    Microsoft
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Microsoft
    This is the most straightforward and easy-to-implement server less solution. App Service is great, but it's designed for websites, and it cannot scale automatically as easily as Azure Functions. Container Apps is a robust and scalable choice, but they need much more planning, development and general work to implement. Container Instances are the same as Container Apps, but they are extremely more limited in termos of capacity. Kubernetes Service si the classic pod container on Azure, but it requires highly skilled professional, and there are not many scenario where it should be used, especially in smaller teams.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Positive : Improved performance and scalability
    • Positive : Better and enhanced Security
    • Positive : Efficiency
    • Negative: Cost
    • Negative: More resources to manage.
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    Microsoft
    • They allowed me to create solutions with low TCO for the customer, which loves the result and the low price, that helped me create solutions for more clients in less time.
    • You can save up to 100% of your compute bill, if you stay under a certain tenant conditions.
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