Azure Web Application Firewall vs Radware Alteon comparison

Azure Web Application Firewall vs. Radware Alteon

June 2025

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

6.0

Azure WAF cuts costs, eliminates third-party needs, improves ROI, meets security requirements, and offers reliable, favorable protection.

Sentiment score

7.6

Radware Alteon enhances efficiency and security, offering affordability, reliability, and robust load balancing with reduced downtime and management complexity.

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Management Consultant at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

Recently, they have been under serious attack with major exploits, such as Log4j, affecting Fortinet and Palo Alto, and even Cisco and VMware.

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Senior Solutions Architect at EQ2 Technology

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.1

Azure Web Application Firewall support varies; premium plans offer better service, while others find self-reliance sufficient.

Sentiment score

7.4

Radware Alteon support is praised for efficiency but needs improvement in response times and language communication barriers.

I hardly use Microsoft's paid subscription or maintenance services, however, whenever I send them a note, they have been responsive.

Management Consultant at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

I am very satisfied with the response from Microsoft dedicated architects if it happens that I have to call for their support.

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Senior Solutions Architect at EQ2 Technology

We never face support issues, and their team resolves any critical issues quickly once they are involved.

Project Manager at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

There is a dedicated expert answering even the toughest questions.

Senior System Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

The customer service and support are excellent.

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IT Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.6

Azure Web Application Firewall offers flexible scaling options, dependent on subscription, with high ratings for managing large deployments.

Sentiment score

8.0

Radware Alteon is highly scalable, efficiently handling large traffic volumes and adapts to enterprise needs with robust performance.

Some Azure applications, like the web application firewall, require a certain level of SKU for hosting setup.

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Management Consultant at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

It handles peak loads and thousands of concurrent connections without exceeding 10% utilization.

Project Manager at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

We have it deployed across multiple geographic locations, benefiting from load balancing resiliency.

IT Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

I would rate it a nine out of ten for scalability.

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Senior System Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.0

Azure Web Application Firewall is stable and reliable, with rare performance issues, mainly solved by system restart.

Sentiment score

8.2

Radware Alteon is praised for stability, reliability, and minimal downtime despite past issues resolved through updates.

Very rarely do I see any latency issues.

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Management Consultant at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

We've never faced downtime, even during peak transaction hours.

Project Manager at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

There is minimal downtime, and the solution is quite stable.

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IT Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Room For Improvement

Azure WAF needs improvements in management, deployment simplicity, affordability, IP support, and comprehensive documentation for better user experience.

Enhancements in automation, scalability, cloud integration, and improved cybersecurity tools are needed to address user dissatisfaction with Radware Alteon.

Upgrading the platform regularly is necessary for security, however, frequent updates every six months or year from Azure can be a maintenance overhead.

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Management Consultant at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

They keep integrating new features that sometimes break our production, but we use clustered systems, so we can test those software releases.

Senior System Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Other OEMs offer free courses and hands-on labs on new technologies and features, which we find useful.

Project Manager at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

Integration with cloud services could be improved.

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IT Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Setup Cost

Enterprise users find Azure Web Application Firewall cost-effective and straightforward compared to AWS and GCP, especially in Brazil.

Radware Alteon is cost-efficient with flexible licensing, offering great value for performance and support, appealing to budget-conscious enterprises.

It is even a lower cost compared to AWS and GCP.

Senior Solutions Architect at EQ2 Technology

Sometimes, when opting for a higher SKU, it's not the WAF itself that's costly but the additional requirements.

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Management Consultant at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

For our solution, it was right in the middle of price performance.

Senior System Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

The cost of the Radware solution is reasonable and stable.

Project Manager at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

The implementation and running costs are quite high.

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IT Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Valuable Features

Azure Web Application Firewall offers scalable, easy-to-configure protection with flexible pricing, enhancing security against DDoS and unauthorized access.

Radware Alteon excels in load balancing, security, and scalability, offering user-friendly management and reliable performance with excellent support.

With Microsoft, everything is within a single suite, making it easier to configure and plan.

Management Consultant at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

It is almost impossible to access these assets from outside, requiring a very skilled attacker to obtain asset tokens of a customer using Azure.

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Senior Solutions Architect at EQ2 Technology

The product allows us to manage multiple networks and VLANs into a single box and add numerous web services and farms efficiently.

Project Manager at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

The most valuable features include the availability with an optional high-availability mode ensuring service continuity because of the resiliency.

IT Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

I find the best features to be the flexibility and ease of use.

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Senior System Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Categories and Ranking

Azure Web Application Firewall

Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)

12th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Microsoft Security Suite (20th)

Radware Alteon

Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)

9th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category, the mindshare of Azure Web Application Firewall is 4.4%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Radware Alteon is 2.1%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Featured Reviews

Comprehensive suite simplifies configuration while frequent updates require management

Management Consultant at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

Mainly, it comes with the complete suite of Microsoft services. I can use it in conjunction with the best options and other features that come with it. Configuration is much easier than using different platforms. For example, if I have hosted the application in AWS and am using the Application Firewall from Azure, there are certain additional steps to follow when configuring them. With Microsoft, everything is within a single suite, making it easier to configure and plan. Azure continually upgrades platforms and sends us messages to upgrade to the next version, simplifying the process. Later, it's much easier if I want to upgrade the software platform, scale it, or move it to a different application host as the whole suite comes together. The return on investment is good. If I am doing applications for clients, I can invoice them for better costs. Most applications that I run and use have a better return on investment.

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Vivek Nadiminti

Sr. Engineer Security at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The integrated application protection has helped secure our critical web applications

Valuable features of Radware Alteon include global server load balancing, SSL offloading, Layer 7 load balancing, automation and traffic scaling, real-time analytics, and reporting. Alteon's integrated application protection has helped us. As a state government agency, we face increasing threats and need to secure our critical web applications. Our finance websites are the primary targets for DDoS, SQL injections, and other sophisticated attacks. Traditional security is insufficient to defend against the volume and complexity of the attacks. We need protection against attacks on the application and infrastructure layers and DDoS attacks. Alteon offers visibility and actionable insights into each security event. Radware has free training available on their website. I've completed a few training courses and found them very helpful for me in my daily work. The basic course covering the UI takes a week, and it was easy to understand. When we're troubleshooting a scenario, we can check the Alteon knowledge base articles. The combination of training and the knowledge base shortens the learning curve.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure Web Application Firewall?

The integration it has with GitHub is great.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Web Application Firewall?

The pricing is okay at the moment. Sometimes, when opting for a higher SKU, it's not the WAF itself that's costly but the additional requirements. A higher SKU application hosting platform adds to ...

What needs improvement with Azure Web Application Firewall?

While using it, I identified certain areas where it would have been good to have additional features. Right now, I can't recall any specific instances. Seamless integration is good, yet having mult...

What do you like most about Radware Alteon?

It saves us a lot of work in terms of management since it has tasks already defined automatically. That enables us to better administer our services. It is very dynamic and easy to administer.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Radware Alteon?

We have a three-year contract with Radware. It is beneficial to have a longer-term contract because you can obtain more discounts. It seems to be a much cheaper alternative. We use their Gel Elasti...

What needs improvement with Radware Alteon?

It is a fairly complete service and it is difficult for me to think of what can be improved. A feature that I would like to see included in the next version might be better analysis when working wi...

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June 2025

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Radware Alteon

May 2025

Also Known As

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Alteon, Radware AppWall

Overview

Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) provides centralized protection of your web applications from common exploits and vulnerabilities. Web applications are increasingly targeted by malicious attacks that exploit commonly known vulnerabilities. SQL injection and cross-site scripting are among the most common attacks.

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Microsoft

Radware Alteon is an application delivery controller (ADC) solution that provides global load balancing for all web, cloud and mobile-based applications. The solution is designed to help your organization simplify operations while ensuring resilience and SLA. It manages application traffic across both data and cloud center locations, optimizing availability and performance. In addition, Radware Alteon integrates multiple application protection services to provide protection against an array of cyberthreats.

Radware Alteon Features

Radware Alteon has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Robust
Load-balancing reverse proxy
Stable
Flexible
Guaranteed application availability
Application aware traffic redirection capabilities
Faster web application response time
Application specific optimized configuration guides
Configuration templates
Built-in virtualization
Built-in application and network security

Radware Alteon Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing Radware Alteon. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Flexible deployment options: Radware Alteon is deployable in a multitude of form factors, including on-premises, virtual, and cloud, and provides a consistent application delivery and security service in any application environment.

Automation scripts library: To support faster time to service for complex application delivery and security services, Alteon is supported by an extensive range of automation scripts library. This also enables seamless integration of Radware Alteon services into the DevOps CI/CD processes.

Integrated application protection: The solution offers comprehensive application protection via embedded WAF, bot management, threat intelligence, and API protection capabilities. This ensures application availability and helps to minimize false positives, as well as keep applications along with their data secure.

Actionable visibility: With Radware Alteon you can stay ahead of issues and threats. The solution provides real-time visibility and actionable insights for proactive management of application availability and security issues before the user experience is impacted.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the solution.

PeerSpot reviewer Jefe de implementaciones de Datos at RETO Industrial S.A. de. C.V., mentions, “The simple and well-documented configuration allows us to be able to implement new balancing services at the request of the user with the same conditions and good service that they expect. We can also make changes to services that are already running, as I mentioned before, the graphical interface is very intuitive and you can almost always make the most common changes quickly. Radware has been characterized by being extremely robust. This gives us the confidence to offer our users a continuous service.”

A director of consulting says, “The most valuable features are the load-balancing and reverse proxy. Global-load balancing as well is valuable. I also find it to be stable. To date, we have not had any issues with it.”

An SOC Specialist at a tech services company explains, “The interface is easy, it's friendly, and has good alerting. When you have a problem with a server, it will alert you. It is useful in many areas, especially for web applications and load balancing. It's something that the customer can see on the internet.”

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