We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Azure Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Microsoft Security Suite solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It provided ease of maintenance. If a new firewall was needed, we only had to run the pipelines for this. So, the maintenance was very easy."
"The solution should be capable of self-scaling, which is one of the features we like about it."
"Among the most valuable features are the DDoS protection that protects your virtual machines, the threat intelligence, and traffic filtering."
"The solution can autoscale."
"One of the notable advantages of Azure Firewall is its user-friendly interface, which closely resembles or shares similarities with other Azure components."
"Azure Firewall is a cloud-native solution that removes the pain of load balancers."
"All its features are good. That's why we recommend it."
"The most valuable feature is the integration into the overall cloud platform."
"The initial setup is easy and straightforward...Azure Web Application Firewall is a scalable product."
"It's a good option if you want a solution that's ready to go and easy for your team to learn. It's cloud-based, so you don't need to buy or maintain any hardware infrastructure."
"Azure WAF is extremely stable."
"It's quite a stable product and works well with Microsoft products."
"The solution has good dashboards."
"We have found the most valuable features to be the web application, minimal skills required for management, control through policies, and automation."
"The most valuable feature is that it allows us to publish our applications behind the firewall."
"It has been a stable product in my experience."
"An Azure firewall is not a real firewall."
"The interface could be improved, it's not very user friendly."
"Azure Firewall has limited visibility for IDPS, no TLS inspection, no app ID, no user ID, no content ID, no device ID. There is no antivirus or anti-spyware. Azure Firewall doesn't scan traffic for malware unless it triggers an IDPS signature. There is no sandbox or machine learning functionality, meaning we are not protected from Zero-day threats. There is no DNS security and limited web categories."
"It would be much easier if the on-premises, firewall rules, had some kind of export-import possibility in place, which is not the case right now."
"The solution lacks artificial intelligence and machine learning. It might be in the roadmap. However, currently, it's not available."
"The threat intelligence aspect of this particular firewall is not at par with other providers."
"The solution doesn't offer the same capabilities of Fortinet. It should offer intrusion prevention and advance filtering. These are two very useful features offered on Fortinet that Azure lacks."
"It needs a lot of improvement, especially on intruder detection. They are working hard on that."
"I would say that Azure's customer service is not that good...I am not very happy with the support offered."
"Azure WAF should not be deployed in the middle of the traffic."
"The management can be improved."
"The documentation needs to be improved."
"Deployment should be simplified so that a non-techie can handle it."
"From a reporting perspective, they could do more there."
"There is a need to be able to configure the solution more."
"The support for proxy forwarding could improve."
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Azure Firewall is ranked 14th in Microsoft Security Suite with 33 reviews while Azure Web Application Firewall is ranked 19th in Microsoft Security Suite with 9 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Azure Web Application Firewall is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure Web Application Firewall writes "It's a good option if you want a solution that's ready to go and easy for your team to learn". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Azure Bastion, whereas Azure Web Application Firewall is most compared with AWS WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Azure Front Door, F5 Advanced WAF and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. See our Azure Firewall vs. Azure Web Application Firewall report.
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