We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and Microsoft Azure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Amazon and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are SSL uploading, signature, and anomaly detection. It is overall a high-quality solution."
"The most valuable feature of F5 Advanced WAF is its grand unity of the implementation, where you have the freedom to configure based on how it affects your use case or your organization. With the default setting of implicit deny, you can gradually start defining and deploying the tool to align with your environment, whether it is outdated, recent, or futuristic. This allows you to customize the solution to protect you from threat actors. You have the ability to define what the advanced threat act should do - whether it should alert, deny, or both - and it will deliver based on your configuration. Unlike other online solutions, F5 Advanced WAF provides flexibility to deliver to your unique environment the way you want."
"Feature-wise, they are always cutting edge and up-to-date. Many features aren't available via competitors. There's always a lot of enhanced critical features that just aren't available through anyone else, or, if they are, are too lightweight."
"The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the overall capabilities, there is not a comparable solution on the market."
"I like the security features, especially against SQL injection."
"The solution is stable."
"It's flexible and powerful, and the users can input their own rules to the system."
"Identification, ease of use, and ease of modifying it to most of our needs are valuable."
"I have not had a problem with the stability. It is reliable."
"The solution has enabled us to provide advanced indicators and analytics to the client on their data."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the limitless possibilities of the infrastructure."
"Databricks is really nice because you have the power to process lots of data and you can create queries and provide big analysis for the business using a robust cluster."
"Azure is very flexible."
"The pricing is quite good, and it is designed as pay-per-use."
"In Azure, everything is pretty straightforward. Once you know it, the platform is very easy to use."
"It is easy to deploy."
"I would like to see additional controls."
"The solution could improve by having an independent capture module. It has a built feature that you can deploy the capture on your published website. However, it's not very user-friendly. When you compare this feature to Google Capture or other enterprise captures, they are very simple. It needs a good connection to the F5 Advanced WAF sandbox. When you implement this feature in the data center, you may suffer some complications with connecting to the F5 Advanced WAF sandbox. This should be improved in the future."
"We get false positives sometimes."
"The delay times on firmware patches and software updates could be better and improved."
"While F5 Advanced WAF does limit the number of partners in certain regions to ensure successful business transactions, they could also benefit from expanding their partnerships and making it easier for more people to learn about and become experts in F5 Advanced WAF. By doing so, they could increase the reach and exposure of their solution, similar to how Cisco has become widely recognized in the security industry."
"I would like to see a better interface and better documentation compatibility with other products. It's more complicated with OWASP."
"We usually use a third-party tool for logging and reporting. It would be nice if we could do that right on this solution. They have one, but it's not very stable. Logging and reporting effectively would be a big enhancement."
"The solution should include RASP for another level of protection at the code itself."
"The cost management and billing section features could be improved."
"The deployment was quite complex."
"There are times when using a service in Microsoft Azure can be confusing because you have four or five options that do similar operations. It would be helpful if there was a clear decision tree around those features. Microsoft does provide a lot of decision trees around a lot of their services, but it's not for everything."
"The pricing could be better."
"Pricing is one area where Azure has room for improvement. There should be some due consideration. Azure has solved some issues with pricing from the development team's standpoint, but it is still quite costly. They should also offer a trial period for the individual platform solutions. I think that would be pretty handy for the developers."
"I would like to see better policy-based management and everything related to security management could have been better integrated."
"The support subscription models need improvement."
"Use of the solution could be easier."
F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 31 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 112 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Optimized cloud solution with reliable recovery and fail services". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Imperva Web Application Firewall, AWS WAF and NGINX App Protect, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Oracle Cloud Platform, Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, SAP Cloud Platform and Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
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Yes, it is definitely supported on most cloud platforms.
You can find all needed info regarding Azure cloud on this link: https://azuremarketplace.micro
Yes, it's available.
You may look at F5 Centralized Management too to bring your policies and profiles from on-prem to the cloud.