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Hillstone Networks Hillstone CloudEdge Virtual-Firewall vs Visual Studio Professional 2022 comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Hillstone Networks Hillston...
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
103rd
Average Rating
10.0
Number of Reviews
6
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Visual Studio Professional ...
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
436th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
4
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Featured Reviews

Centralized security has protected hybrid workloads and provides deep visibility into cloud traffic
Cloud-native automation and IaC: Terraform support, auto-scaling templates, and API maturity lag behind Palo Alto VM-Series and FortiGate-VM. Dynamically scaling in public cloud requires more manual effort. Third-party integrations and ecosystem: fewer native connectors with SIEM/SOAR platforms, CSPM, and third-party tools compared to market leaders. Documentation and training material: technical documentation and community resources (forums, tutorials, KB) are more limited, which lengthens the learning curve for new teams. SASE/SSE capabilities: the integrated SASE/ZTNA offering is less mature compared to the convergence already provided by Fortinet or Palo Alto. Centralized multi-instance management: managing large fleets of virtual appliances could be smoother; centralized management (HSM) works, but some users would like more granularity and automation.
Nishant Thakkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Analyst at WTW
Building AI-assisted disposable research tools has transformed how I automate data gathering
I believe IntelliSense is a good tool to work with, but I wish it could be strengthened in terms of auto suggestions and code rectification. It is efficient at this moment but has room for improvement. Firstly, there is room for improvement in IntelliSense auto suggestion and auto compilation. Although it is very good and robust, it can be improved. Secondly, I have noticed that it sometimes takes a little time to start up and can be a bit slow, perhaps because it consumes lots of RAM or CPU resources. If that can be improved, it would be beneficial. Regarding Visual Studio Professional 2022's AI capabilities, I believe it needs some improvement in accuracy and reliability. At the moment, while AI provides suggestions, I have to review and edit them. Although it has its concerns, it is good in that AI now gives a first draft, whereas in the past, humans had to write everything from scratch.

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

Pros

"On balance, Hillstone CloudEdge is a solid and highly competitive solution within the virtual NGFW firewall segment."
"Hillstone CloudEdge Virtual Firewall provides advanced security for cloud and virtualized environments through next-generation firewall (NGFW) capabilities, including application visibility and control, intrusion prevention (IPS), antivirus protection, VPN services, threat intelligence, and advanced attack defense mechanisms."
"The most valuable aspect is the combination of traditional firewall functionality with cloud deployment flexibility."
"CloudEdge has helped us apply consistent security controls to our AWS workloads with our on-premises workloads."
"The most valuable aspect is the combination of traditional firewall functionality with cloud deployment flexibility."
"The most valuable aspect is the combination of traditional firewall functionality with cloud deployment flexibility."
"Capability in Visual Studio Professional 2022 means it is supporting all things like testing for my testing purpose, as well as the development; everything is integrated in Visual Studio Professional 2022."
"The benefits that Visual Studio Professional 2022 provides combined with the pricing makes it a good choice."
"Visual Studio Professional 2022 is a fully functional IDE with advanced capabilities that provide an edge over other platforms."
"Visual Studio has pretty good support for Git conflict resolving features."
 

Cons

"Additional automation resources for AWS would also be helpful."
"Cloud-native automation and IaC: Terraform support, auto-scaling templates, and API maturity lag behind Palo Alto VM-Series and FortiGate-VM."
"The setup cost is more expensive with similar features."
"Additional automation resources for AWS would also be helpful."
"Apart from the editing feature, I would like to see improvement in Visual Studio Professional 2022 because performance has dropped significantly, making it currently about 100 times slower than Qt Creator, which is unreasonable to use in a multi-core environment such as the 128 cores that I use."
"Regarding Visual Studio Professional 2022's AI capabilities, I believe it needs some improvement in accuracy and reliability."
"One area I could suggest regarding improvements in deployment efficiency using Visual Studio Professional 2022 is that the context-aware code suggestion should be more tailored."
"Currently, Visual Studio Professional 2022 is not supporting the .TS, TypeScript code, which is a disadvantage, because with Playwright, we can do that in C#, but having Playwright code with TypeScript, I am not able to see any project or any suggestion about the .TS code."
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Hillstone Networks Hillstone CloudEdge Virtual-Firewall?
Additional automation resources for AWS would also be helpful. More comprehensive CloudFormation or Terraform examples, deployment templates, and guidance for high-availability architectures could ...
What is your primary use case for Hillstone Networks Hillstone CloudEdge Virtual-Firewall?
We deploy Hillstone CloudEdge Virtual-Firewall in AWS to protect workloads hosted inside our VPC. We use it to inspect north-south traffic, enforce access-control policies, secure communication bet...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Visual Studio Professional 2022?
I am using the free version of Visual Studio Professional 2022. I find the price of Visual Studio Professional 2022 to be affordable.
What needs improvement with Visual Studio Professional 2022?
Currently, Visual Studio Professional 2022 is not supporting the .TS, TypeScript code, which is a disadvantage, because with Playwright, we can do that in C#, but having Playwright code with TypeSc...
What is your primary use case for Visual Studio Professional 2022?
I am using Visual Studio Professional 2022 for test automation. For test automation, I use only Visual Studio and VS Code; I use VS Code for my Playwright and Visual Studio for my Selenium C#.
 

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