Azure Application Gateway vs Barracuda Web Application Firewall

Likelihood to Recommend

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

Technical Product Manager

Telia Company ABTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees

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Best Suited for Customer Environments with O365 Setup - Would recommend it for small, medium, or even large-sized organizations. Need to make some adjustments if you have an automated email setup for some apps.

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Verified User

Partner in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Pros

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

Software Engineer

Appnomu Savings and LoansFinancial Services, 51-200 employees

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Web application security.
Blocks emails that could be spam.
Blocks websites we don't people on here at the school district.

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Tony Ortiz

Database Administrator

Northside ISDEducation Management, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

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

Software Engineer

JDA SoftwareComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Learning curve to implement
If using SD-WAN, multiple devices required

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Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Legal Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

Starting Price

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Support Rating

Azure Application Gateway 10.0

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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

Software Engineer

JDA SoftwareComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Barracuda Web Application Firewall 8.0

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The Barracuda Web Application Firewall is easy to use. Support from Barracuda is great also. Load Balancing of the Web Application Firewall is also nice. This allows you to do maintenance or have large loads for the end-user. Threat monitoring of our network and traffic coming into our services within our cloud solution.

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Tony Ortiz

Database Administrator

Northside ISDEducation Management, 501-1000 employees

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