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 Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, F5 and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."I definitely recommend this solution because of the time you save on analysis."
"The best solution for WAF."
"This solution is an enterprise-class firewall that provides both load-balancing and security."
"F5's user-friendly interface and seamless integration stand out as the most valuable features for us."
"There is no need to worry about updating signatures because WAF will automatically update the signatures for you."
"The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the overall capabilities, there is not a comparable solution on the market."
"It is also quite intuitive and user-friendly. They have several webinars that are actually like labs. You can use these webinars to learn about how to use all features of the product."
"Good dashboard and reporting."
"We use Microsoft Azure for operations, email, and office applications."
"It is stable and collaborative."
"The most valuable feature is the virtual machine."
"There are a lot of valuable features in Microsoft Azure, such as Kubernetes, pipelines, and development environments."
"Azure's Data Lake services are decent. I like AKS, and API Management is relatively straightforward to use. The security and SIEM options Azure offers are good. All the infrastructure services are easy to use and set up."
"The most efficient feature of Microsoft Azure is that we can use it to update a website with a few clicks."
"Virtual machine services, in SaaS services, M365, and Data Lake are all popular with our clients."
"The design of Microsoft Azure is for it to be scalable and it is scalable."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve the precision of the scanning. There are many false positives. They should improve their threat database."
"I would like to see additional controls."
"Its price should be better. It is expensive."
"The user interface (UI) seems a bit outdated. Making it more user-friendly would be beneficial."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve the reporting. It's a bit difficult to populate, them. If you're not so familiar with the functions, such as where to find the logs and other settings."
"Scalability could be improved."
"The administrator's user interface and some of the settings can sometimes be very complicated to understand."
"People who want to work with the device have to be pro in Linux"
"The Azure Billing API could be so much better. It only provides billing metrics for a set duration."
"The solution should improve the shared cache. For the shared cache, Microsoft uses RADIUS third-party services. We have a lot of trouble with RADIUS and I suppose that is due to the fact that is not owned completely by Microsoft."
"It is pretty secure, but it can always be more secure."
"There was a time when the solution was updated on their side and all of our functions stopped working. This issue could be worked on to prevent it from happening in the future. They must give us the information of when they are going to updates on the platform side so that we can take the appropriate measures on our side as well."
"We like that they have the new capabilities, but sometimes they're deprecating capabilities faster than we can handle. If we had to improve it, we would want to stay on some of these older capabilities a bit longer."
"While integrating services from different vendors, the perceived costs are high, with occasional confusion about specific charges, especially in data transfer scenarios between regions."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by being more user-friendly and the interface could be better."
"Microsoft Azure can be pretty advanced and difficult to understand. I would like it to be simplified. The licensing especially needs to be simplified."
F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 54 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, 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 "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Amazon AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform.
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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.