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."
"It is a scalable solution...The installation phase of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is very easy."
"We find it valuable because it is compatible with our existing Azure solution."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the web application firewall (WAF)."
"We can control what rules should be used and what should be disabled."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is traffic management."
"It has a filter available, although we are not currently using it because it is not part of our requirements. But it is a good option and when it becomes part of our requirements we will definitely use it."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway gives us a lot of benefits, including domain mapping."
"The solution provides great automation and it is easy to upgrade service."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"The tool's pricing could be improved."
"The tool is a pain to deal with when it comes to the area of configuration."
"The working speed of the solution needs improvement."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway's first deployment is complex. It needs to improve its pricing."
"For the first-time user, it is difficult to understand so the user-interface needs to be improved."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"Application Gateway’s limitation is that the private and the public endpoint cannot use the same port."
"The monitoring on the solution could be better."
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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 38 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, Azure Front Door, Citrix NetScaler, F5 Advanced WAF and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall.
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