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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 Load Balancer

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's Azure Load Balancer provides built-in load balancing for cloud services and virtual machines, so the user can create highly-available and scalable applications in minutes.

    $0.01

    Per Rule Per Hour

    PT Application Firewall

    N/AN/APositive Technologies headquartered in Framingham offers the PT Application Firewall (AF), a web application firewall (WAF) which uses advanced machine learning and correlative techniques to detecting and prevent zero-day attacks on enterprise apps.N/A
    Pricing
    Azure Application GatewayAzure Load BalancerPT Application Firewall
    Editions & Modules
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    Additional Rules
    $0.01
    Per Rule Per Hour
    First 5 Rules
    $0.025
    Per Hour
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure Application GatewayAzure Load BalancerPT Application Firewall
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Azure Application GatewayAzure Load BalancerPT Application Firewall
    Considered Multiple Products
    Microsoft
    Chose Azure Application Gateway
    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, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Azure Application Gateway
    I have my dependency application in Azure Application Gateway. I had to use this, and it has all the features we were looking for.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    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
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Best Alternatives
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    Medium-sized Companies
    NetScaler
    Score8 out of 10
    F5 BIG-IP
    Score9.2 out of 10
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    NetScaler
    Score8 out of 10
    F5 BIG-IP
    Score9.2 out of 10
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Azure Application GatewayAzure Load BalancerPT Application Firewall
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (9 ratings)
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    Usability
    9.0
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    Support Rating
    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    Azure Application GatewayAzure Load BalancerPT Application Firewall
    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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