Azure Application Gateway vs. Gcore Security

Azure Application Gateway

Gcore Security

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Azure Application Gateway	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft'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
Gcore Security	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	Gcore Security is a cloud-native platform that provides multi-layer DDoS protection across L3, L4, and L7 and a fully featured WAAP (Web Application and API Protection) solution. Built on globally distributed infrastructure and powered by real-time threat intelligence, it detects and mitigates attacks instantly, maintaining stable application performance even under extreme traffic loads. Key Features - Multi-Layer DDoS Mitigation:…	$25 per month requests

Pricing

Azure Application Gateway

Gcore Security

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Azure Application Gateway	Gcore Security
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Contact us for more pricing info. We also offer L3/L4 DDoS protection for organizations operating their own ASN and infrastructure.

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Community Pulse
	Azure Application Gateway	Gcore Security

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	Azure Application Gateway	Gcore Security
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User Ratings
	Azure Application Gateway	Gcore Security
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (8 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Azure Application Gateway	Gcore Security
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. Incentivized Janne Mikola Technical Product Manager Read full review	Gcore No answers on this topic
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. Incentivized Mounika Chirasani Software Engineer Read full review	Gcore No answers on this topic
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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Gcore No answers on this topic
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Gcore No answers on this topic
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. Incentivized Mounika Chirasani Software Engineer Read full review	Gcore No answers on this topic
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. Incentivized Dima Kazavchinsky System and DevOps Engineer Read full review	Gcore No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Microsoft Positive : Improved performance and scalability Positive : Better and enhanced Security Positive : Efficiency Negative: Cost Negative: More resources to manage. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Gcore No answers on this topic
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