Azure DDoS Protection vs Cloudflare One comparison

Microsoft and Cloudflare are both solutions in the Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection category. Microsoft is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.0, while Cloudflare is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.5. Microsoft holds a 3.9% mindshare in DDOS, compared to Cloudflare’s 3.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Cloudflare users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 22, 2025

Azure DDoS Protection and Cloudflare One both offer advanced DDoS mitigation solutions tailored for different environments. Cloudflare One has an edge due to its ease of management and scalability, highlighted by user-friendly features and robust performance.

Features: Cloudflare One stands out with rate limiting, an intuitive interface, and consolidated management via a single console. It includes DDoS protection, WAF, CDN, and zero trust solutions. Azure DDoS Protection excels in Azure environments, integrating seamlessly with Azure resources, offering adaptive tuning, and AI capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Azure DDoS Protection could benefit from better reporting, enhanced dashboard insights, and reduced bandwidth consumption. Configuration processes need simplification. Cloudflare One should focus on improving onboarding, clarifying WAF rules, and increasing documentation support, particularly for legacy system migrations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Azure DDoS Protection is praised for its stability in public cloud environments, though response times could improve. Cloudflare One provides flexible deployment options but may experience inconsistent support quality based on service tiers.

Pricing and ROI: Azure DDoS Protection offers a cost-effective plan for enterprises with a subscription model covering all public IPs but can be expensive for smaller businesses. Cloudflare One is competitively priced, though pricing transparency could improve, offering significant ROI due to its lower costs.

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Categories and Ranking

Azure DDoS Protection

Ranking in Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection

8th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Microsoft Security Suite (23rd)

Cloudflare One

Ranking in Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection

5th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Email Security (13th), Secure Web Gateways (SWG) (9th), Data Loss Prevention (DLP) (10th), Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) (8th), Access Management (5th), Bot Management (3rd), ZTNA as a Service (5th), ZTNA (1st), Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) (7th), Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection category, the mindshare of Azure DDoS Protection is 3.9%, up from 3.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cloudflare One is 3.8%, down from 4.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection

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Venkat Raju Mallipudi

Group Chief of Enterprise Architecture & S/W Engineering/ CTO at Aventra Group

Acts as an additional layer of protection, provides endpoint security but not very easy to configure

It's not very easy to configure, in my view. We have to do some work behind the scenes. It's not very simple. We have to do it very carefully, and we need to monitor this enablement as well. But apart from that, I didn't see any kind of challenges. So, in my opinion, configuration is the main trouble for them. It is something that can be done to be better. Not just configuration. You need an expert who knows the ins and outs of these security solutions. In my experience, people struggle with configuration. While configuring, we get this error, we get that error, and then we try to fix those issues. I have seen those. It's not straightforward.

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Carlos Alam Hernandez Baruch

Engineer at SITMEXICO

The solution enables seamless security management and fosters a learning environment

Feedback could be enhanced. While I work efficiently with Clover as a partner in Mexico City, sometimes the information and requests are easier to manage with more concrete solutions. For the solution stopping us for e-learning, I appreciate the concept yet need more resources or courses in Mexico, preferably in Spanish. Certifications are easy, however, I require more real-world environments and instructors.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Azure is easy to set up and widely used by our clients."

"The most valuable feature of Azure DDoS Protection is that it performs well."

"DDoS Protection is simple to deploy and integrates seamlessly with the Azure environment. Ease of deployment is a crucial feature for us."

"The Azure DDoS Protection plan is essential for environments like ours that are highly exposed to potential attacks, especially since DDoS attacks have become common."

"Azure DDoS Protection offers superior protection against denial-of-service attacks."

"The integration of various tools with Azure Firewall, like DDoS Protection, Web Application Firewall, and Azure Front Door, is quite effective."

"AI capabilities are very good. I would rate them an eight out of ten."

"Azure is easy to set up and widely used by our clients."

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"Cloudflare DDoS is better than its competitors for its security, deployment, and scalability."

"Cloudflare is simple to use."

"It will take the blow rather than our applications should an attack occur."

"Cloudflare, in my opinion, was easy to implement."

"It is a stable solution."

"The capabilities of the software are strong enough for me to do what it's supposed to do. For me, we don't need to do a lot of configuration on our site. We just enable it and monitor it."

"It's the endpoint exposition. We don't need to expose our VPN server to the internet and need a zero-test solution. I can apply some conditional access to the endpoint that's connecting to our network to check their security policies or the security condition of their workstation. Once the workstation is trying to connect to my internal network, then I would like to check the discrete condition of these endpoints that are trying to access my internal network. We created some conditional access. We have CrowdStrike, to check if the CrowdStrike is installed, to check if it's updated, and to check for Windows updates. We created some conditional policies to check it."

"Enables me to work from two locations."

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Cons

"I suggest adding more services and additional services, which would be beneficial."

"It's not very easy to configure, in my view."

"Sometimes, it is hard for our staff to keep track of changes (in the GUI) between different projects, because there are constant changes. As a result, it is hard to manage, recall, and see all the features because they have been moved from one place to another."

"Azure DDoS Protection could improve on the reporting."

"The implementation of Azure DDoS Protection results in a decrease in our bandwidth capacity and should be optimized to reduce resource consumption."

"The visibility could be better. We would like to have better metrics, so we could see all the information in a central place."

"I have noticed some false positives with the Web Application Firewall yet not with DDoS Protection."

"The dashboard lacks insights and user-friendliness, as most data is logged into metrics like Log Analytics workspaces."

"There are premium tier live service and lower tier live service, so we opted for the lower tier. But there is no medium tier where we pay a little extra and get a bit more service. So if that can be improved."

"The pricing is an area that can be improved. Pricing, as far as I recall, was the source of our problems."

"They don't have a person to provide support for customers using the solution under their free plan."

"The software has automated alerts, but the automated alerts are not available in the mobile app."

"Our subscription plan for the solution has a limitation of bot signatures."

"The onboarding process can be improved a little bit."

"Lacks a VPN feature to provide a secure connection to the data center."

"Our customers no longer use Cloudflare because its service is subpar."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is an expensive solution."

"You can test it for a certain period of time free of charge. You can have a free account. You can test it to compare its pros and cons with other products that you are testing."

"The price tag is no longer $200,000, but rather $300,000 to $400,000. It's twice."

"The pricing of the solution is cheap. The licensing cost is also very low. I rate the cost and pricing a three out of ten."

"The pricing is somewhere in the middle. I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten."

"My company has to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the solution. There are no hidden charges apart from the licensing costs of the solution."

"Cloudflare Zero Trust Platform's pricing is good."

"The solution's pricing lacks transparency."

"The prices are slightly expensive."

"The solution is not that expensive."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Comms Service Provider

Government

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

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Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure DDoS Protection?

Azure DDoS Protection offers superior protection against denial-of-service attacks.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure DDoS Protection?

The pricing is somewhat costly, usually around $3,000 to $4,000 per month. Managing this expense is tough, especially since we haven't received everything we need for our capital expenditure manage...

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What needs improvement with Azure DDoS Protection?

The dashboard lacks insights and user-friendliness, as most data is logged into metrics like Log Analytics workspaces. It would be beneficial to have more detailed insights available directly on th...

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What do you like most about Cloudflare Access?

The tool also offers good scalability, and the dashboard, along with real-time analytics, is very good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloudflare Access?

The price of Cloudflare Access is the same as compared to Akamai, but I get better performance from Cloudflare. My company has to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the so...

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What needs improvement with Cloudflare Access?

Cloudflare Access has strong integration with Microsoft, among other platforms. However, when it comes to Kaspersky, we have clients who typically encounter challenges. The usual setup involves con...

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Cloudflare Area 1 Email Security, Cloudflare Bot Management, Cloudflare Gateway, Cloudflare Zero Trust Platform, Cloudflare DDoS, Cloudflare SASE & SSE Platform

Overview

Azure DDoS Protection, combined with application design best practices, provides defense against DDoS attacks.

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Cloudflare One is a single-vendor Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform that enables Zero Trust security and any-to-any connectivity across enterprise applications, users, devices, and networks. Cloudflare One helps organizations simplify, modernize, and consolidate their IT architecture by converging security and networking services on our single global network and control plane.

Many organizations start by adopting our Security Service Edge (SSE) services — like ZTNA, SWG, CASB, and DLP — to reduce their attack surface, stop threats like phishing and ransomware, protect data, and apply identity-based Zero Trust verification across web, SaaS, and private app environments. Others prioritize simplifying network connectivity across offices, data centers, and cloud environments with our WANaaS.

Every service is available for customers to run in every location across Cloudflare’s global network, which today spans 330+ cities in 120+ countries, so you can scale connectivity with fast, consistent protections everywhere.

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