Cloudflare vs Microsoft Azure Application Gateway comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Cloudflare
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
70
Ranking in other categories
CDN (1st), Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection (1st), Managed DNS (1st), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (11th)
Microsoft Azure Application...
Average Rating
7.2
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (4th), Web Application Firewall (WAF) (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection category, the mindshare of Cloudflare is 20.2%, down from 23.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is 3.2%, down from 6.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection
Unique Categories:
CDN
21.9%
Managed DNS
111.6%
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
5.2%
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
8.7%
 

Featured Reviews

Binuprasad Madhu - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 5, 2023
The API enables you to build a separate environment inside the solution
We use Cloudflare for our DNS service.  We previously faced so many issues with our in-house DNS servers. Cloudflare provides a backup, so if you have any issues with your environment or something goes wrong with a software hostname and IP address, you can run the backup and experience zero…
Abdelrahman Anwar - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 30, 2022
The self-maintaining platform is very stable and easy to use
Our company uses the solution as a gateway for our customers' application services. We currently have seven users and six customers.  The solution has been very helpful.  The cloud platform is really easy to use and doesn't require any maintenance.  The solution provides great automation and it…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"New and innovative way to protect the client's data."
"Easier http to https redirect using page rules"
"There are key things that are used for our enterprise customers, such as Lambda and DNS."
"The solution automatically detects and responds to certain types of traffic based on geolocation."
"Many websites require an SSL certificate because they sell stuff and want SSL. Cloudflare comes with an SSL certificate built in. It's automatic. You sign yourself up for Cloudflare, and an SSL certificate automatically protects your website. You don't necessarily need a certificate if you have a connection between your website and your host, the server, Cloudflare, and the host."
"Cloudflare has many features."
"Cloudflare is a security SaaS provider that provides security and protects us from any application layer attack."
"It's very user-friendly."
"I like the tool's stability and performance."
"The simplicity of the solution and its ability to integrate easily with others are its most valuable aspects."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is an easy-to-use solution."
"We use the product in front-end and back-end applications to do the load balancing smartly."
"I find Application Gateway’s WAF module valuable because it helps prevent layer 7 attacks."
"The solution's most valuable feature is an HTTP solution and SSL certificate. It is also easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is traffic management."
"The solution has built-in rules that reduce alerts and are easy to configure."
 

Cons

"Cloudflare should add more documentation and pricing to the cloud version."
"Cloudflare's console should be made more user-friendly."
"For the free and Pro plans, Cloudflare could use a simple bot to provide information to users. This would improve support, especially for less advanced users who utilize the free components."
"It should confirm audit findings of the assigned area with auditees to ensure that the audit conclusions are based on an accurate understanding of the issues."
"I think the APIs are a little bit hard for us to work with. The APIs could be more open so that we could integrate better with our SolarWinds or our monitoring solution."
"Latencies are always a problem."
"DNS Management."
"There are some issues with the CDN services."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway's first deployment is complex. It needs to improve its pricing."
"The working speed of the solution needs improvement."
"The pricing of the solution is a bit high. The solution should offer different pricing systems."
"The solution doesn’t support wildcard-based and regular expression-based rules."
"I want the solution's support to improve. The tool is also expensive."
"The solution could improve by increasing the performance when doing updates. For example, if I change the certificate it can take 30 minutes. Other vendors do not have this type of problem."
"One of the challenges we faced was the solution does not support any other PCP protocols apart from HTTP and HTTPS."
"We faced some downtime while validating CNAME."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"So far I use free tier and happy with it. You can subscribe to business package if needed."
"For Cloudflare, I recommend it heavily for small businesses with revenue under a couple of million dollars. Onboarding is easy, and they even have a free plan. This makes it simple for businesses in the $100,000-$500,000 range to try it out and see its value, allowing them to scale up their infrastructure as needed."
"The solution is expensive when compared to other products but offers unlimited bandwidth."
"The pricing depends on the usage, but the cheapest would be around 5,000 USD a month."
"The price of the solution is expensive."
"The price is reasonable."
"There are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fees."
"The pricing for the service is reasonable, neither excessively cheap nor prohibitively expensive. It aligns well with the value of their solution."
"Every solution comes with a license and cost. Microsoft provides the license and the total cost is for the maintenance every year."
"I would rate the pricing a three out of ten, with ten being cheap and one being expensive."
"The pricing is based on how much you use the solution."
"The solution is cheaper than Imperva. I rate it four to five out of ten."
"There is a need to pay a fixed price per month to use the product. There are no additional payments to be made to Microsoft apart from the charges paid towards the monthly licensing costs attached to the solution."
"Between v1 and v2, there is a lot of change in the pricing. It is very costly compared to AWS."
"The solution's pricing is not complex. It is not expensive from our point of view."
"I rate the pricing seven out of ten because some third-party solutions are even costlier than this."
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Comparison Review

it_user68487 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 6, 2013
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
25%
Computer Software Company
14%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating?
Cloudflare. We are moving from Akamai prolexic to Cloudflare. Cloudflare anycast network outperforms Akamai static GRE tunnels. We have decreased site load times on Mobile 3G from 8 to 1,6 seconds ...
Which would you choose - Cloudflare DNS or Quad9?
Cloudflare DNS is a very fast, very reliable public DNS resolver. It is an enterprise-grade authoritative DNS service that offers great redundancy and advanced security with built-in unmetered and ...
What do you like most about Cloudflare?
Cloudflare offers CDN and DDoS protection. We have the front end, API, and database in how you structure applications.
What's the difference between Azure Front Door and Application Gateway?
We found Azure Front Door to be easily scaled and very stable. The implementation is very fast and Microsoft provides excellent support. Azure Front Door can quickly detect abnormalities before the...
How does AWS WAF compare to Microsoft Azure Application Gateway?
Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether Amazon’s Web Service Web Application Firewall or Microsoft Azure Application Gateway web application firewall software was the better fit ...
What do you like most about Microsoft Azure Application Gateway?
Application Gateway automatically redirects unwanted users and takes care of the security aspect. It also handles the performance side of things, which is why we use it.
 

Also Known As

Cloudflare DNS
Azure Application Gateway, MS Azure Application Gateway
 

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