We performed a comparison between Akamai Ion and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Akamai is easy to use and very effective."
"Using policies to link and manage these URL-based routing configurations is also valuable."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The solution provides great automation and it is easy to upgrade service."
"The simplicity of the solution and its ability to integrate easily with others are its most valuable aspects."
"Good customization; able to report and take action on alerts."
"I find Application Gateway’s WAF module valuable because it helps prevent layer 7 attacks."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is traffic management."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is its ease of use."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"The product could be easier to use and implement."
"Scalability can be an issue."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"The pricing of the solution could be improved. Right now, it's a bit expensive."
"The product's performance should be better."
"Application Gateway’s limitation is that the private and the public endpoint cannot use the same port."
"Microsoft needs to work on their documentation."
"It could be easier to change servicing."
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Akamai Ion is ranked 15th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 1 review while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is ranked 4th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews. Akamai Ion is rated 7.0, while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Akamai Ion writes "Helps optimize the content delivery network, but doesn’t provide much flexibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway writes "High stability with built-in rules that reduce alerts and are easy to configure". Akamai Ion is most compared with NGINX Plus, whereas Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is most compared with AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Citrix NetScaler, Azure Front Door and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall.
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