We compared Cloudflare and Azure Front Door based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Cloudflare and Azure Front Door both offer valuable features such as robust security measures, reliable content delivery networks, and efficient caching capabilities. However, Cloudflare stands out with its user-friendly interface, real-time threat detection, and extensive analytics tools. On the other hand, Azure Front Door is praised for its seamless integration with other Azure services, powerful security measures, and scalability. Users appreciate Cloudflare for its responsive support and cost-effective pricing, while Azure Front Door receives positive feedback for its efficient customer service and positive return on investment. Areas for improvement in Cloudflare include network performance, user interface, documentation and support, customization options, pricing transparency, and integration with other services. Meanwhile, Azure Front Door could benefit from enhancements in performance and stability, user-friendly configuration processes, improved error handling and troubleshooting capabilities, more customization options, and addressing security concerns.
Features: Cloudflare's valuable features include robust security measures, reliable content delivery network, efficient caching capabilities, and user-friendly interface. Azure Front Door offers efficient traffic management, powerful security measures, seamless integration with Azure services, and robust monitoring and analytics capabilities.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Cloudflare is appreciated by users for being straightforward and hassle-free. There have been no concerns or issues with the licensing process, indicating a smooth experience. Users have also mentioned their feedback on Azure Front Door, discussing their experiences with pricing, setup costs, and licensing., Cloudflare's ROI is characterized by improved website performance, increased security, reduced downtime, user-friendly interface, and value for money. In contrast, Azure Front Door's ROI includes effective traffic distribution, enhanced website performance, scalability, cost-effectiveness, and seamless integration with other Azure services.
Room for Improvement: Cloudflare product: Users have mentioned room for improvement in network performance, user interface, documentation and support, customization options, pricing transparency, and integration with other services. Azure Front Door product: Room for improvement includes enhancing performance and stability, refining configuration process, improving error handling, increasing customization options, and addressing security concerns.
Deployment and customer support: The user reviews for Cloudflare and Azure Front Door show that both products have varying durations required for establishing a new tech solution. Some users took three months for deployment and a week for setup, while others took only a week for both phases. It is important to consider the context of these timeframes and whether they refer to separate or the same periods., Cloudflare's customer service is praised for their exceptional assistance and responsive support. Users appreciate the quick and knowledgeable responses, while Azure Front Door receives positive remarks for its efficient and helpful assistance.
The summary above is based on 23 interviews we conducted recently with Cloudflare and Azure Front Door users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The solution is good."
"The web application firewall is a great feature."
"The most valuable feature is that you can implement resources globally. It does not depend on location and ability or something like that. This is to connect clients around the world."
"I am impressed with the tool's integrations."
"I particularly appreciate its load-balancing capabilities as it allows us to manage multiple instances and support a global presence effectively."
"The price is one of the most important aspects of the product. It's quite affordable."
"Rules Engine is a valuable feature."
"Has a great application firewall and we like the security."
"We're using dynamic components to build flexible pages to create and manage Git merge requests for code and reviews."
"Smaller businesses have seen great ROI due to the low investment and strong performance."
"Cloudflare has many features."
"The UI is good."
"New and innovative way to protect the client's data."
"I rate its stability a ten out of ten."
"The simplicity of the overall dashboard makes it a great product for a user like me who has less understanding of the internet than a developer or other more technical people. It gives me peace of mind. I also love the easy customization of the Page Rules."
"From what I've seen so far, there are no negatives to report as of yet"
"I'm responsible for the governance and cost control of Azure. I'm not a specialist in any products and therefore I couldn't really speak effectively to features that are lacking or missing."
"There's a limitation on the amount of global rules we can add."
"It lacks sufficient functionality."
"We should be able to use Front Door defenders with multiple cloud vendors. Currently, they can be used only with the Azure cloud. Azure Front Door should also be able to do global load balancing and provide internal front door services. Microsoft should clearly define what Traffic Manager, Application Gateway, and Azure Front Door products do. These are similar products, and people get confused between these products."
"The user interface needs improvement as it is difficult to create the mapping to link the problem with your private address sources."
"The product needs to improve its latency."
"The product's features are limited compared to Cloudflare. The tool also doesn't work well in a hybrid environment. I would like to see a way to add personalized APIs in the system."
"There is room for improvement and they're working on it."
"It would be beneficial for us if Cloudflare could offer a scrubbing solution. This would involve taking a snapshot of my website and keeping it live during a DDoS attack, ensuring uninterrupted service for our users. DDoS attacks are typically short in duration, and having Cloudflare maintain the site's availability from its secure network would enhance the overall user experience. I would appreciate it if Cloudflare could consider implementing this feature. Many organizations already utilize similar capabilities in their CDN platforms, where a static snapshot of the web page is displayed during DDoS attacks. In terms of features, Cloudflare needs to enhance its resilience and stay more focused on adopting new technologies. For instance, solutions like F5 XC Box, Access Solution, and Distributed Cloud Solution have impressive features, and Cloudflare should strive to match and exceed those capabilities. There's a need for improvement in areas like AI-based DDoS attacks and Layer 7 WAF features. Cloudflare should prioritize enhancements in areas such as behavioral DDoS and protection against SQL injection attacks, considering the prevalent trend of public exposure to the internet for business reasons. Overall, Cloudflare needs to invest more in advancing its feature set."
"Technical support is lacking."
"There are some issues with the CDN services."
"The reporting can definitely be improved to offer a lot more explanation on something that may have happened or has actually happened."
"Support response time could be improved."
"If they improve on the placement of their data centers, it would be better. I'm living in a remote area. I would like to connect to them without any kind of lag."
"We're facing challenges due to an upgrade in the machine learning model. The problem arises from some users abusing the APIs, resulting in an influx of suspicious traffic. Cloudflare's learning model mistakenly identifies this traffic as human. Consequently, it assigns it a higher trust score, akin to legitimate human traffic, causing complications in our architecture. Previously, such traffic would have been categorized as suspicious, enabling us to apply appropriate blocking rules. However, we encounter difficulties distinguishing between genuine and suspicious traffic with the new categorization. Despite these challenges, overall, Cloudflare remains the preferred solution compared to Azure, AWS CloudFront, and Google Cloud Armor."
"Even if I wanted to, I wouldn't be able to buy Cloudflare in my country."
Azure Front Door is ranked 2nd in CDN with 10 reviews while Cloudflare is ranked 1st in CDN with 56 reviews. Azure Front Door is rated 8.8, while Cloudflare is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Azure Front Door writes " An easy -to-setup stable solution that enables implementing resources globally and has a good technical support team". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cloudflare writes "It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes". Azure Front Door is most compared with Amazon CloudFront, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Akamai, AWS Global Accelerator and Azure Firewall, whereas Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Imperva DDoS, AWS Shield, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and Arbor DDoS. See our Azure Front Door vs. Cloudflare report.
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