HAProxy and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway compete in the load balancing category. HAProxy appears to have the advantage in customization and open-source benefits, while Azure Application Gateway shines in cloud integration and security features.
Features: HAProxy offers multiple load-balancing algorithms, high availability, and SSL proxy capabilities, providing flexibility in performance tuning. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway offers a web application firewall (WAF), seamless Azure service integration, and automatic scaling, bolstering its cloud-based utility.
Room for Improvement: HAProxy users desire better documentation, a more intuitive GUI, enhanced logging, and improved scalability features. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway could benefit from more flexibility in public IP usage, simpler configuration, and robust DDoS protection.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: HAProxy is largely on-premises with community-driven support and strong documentation but lacks commercial support. Azure Application Gateway offers easy deployment in public and hybrid cloud environments with strong, responsive technical support, suitable for enterprises.
Pricing and ROI: HAProxy is cost-effective for open-source adopters, offering high ROI through its free version despite limited premium support. Azure Application Gateway has a usage-based pricing model perceived as costly, but it offers reliable ROI through integration with additional Azure services.
Microsoft Azure Application Gateway significantly impacts our cost savings while maintaining higher performance.
We have seen a return on investment in terms of time-saving and cost-saving by not creating our own infrastructure.
There is room for improvement, specifically in paid support, by providing more direct contact.
Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is a very scalable product.
There is room for improvement in terms of support, such as assigning agents directly for more straightforward engagement.
In future releases of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, I would like to see more AI functionalities and a better dashboard as well as some customizations.
Azure solutions are quite expensive.
When it comes to pricing for Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, I would rate it a seven out of ten.
The Web Application Firewall (WAF) in Microsoft Azure Application Gateway has been very effective in protecting applications from security threats.
We are using it for some of the security features for our applications, particularly for securing traffic in transit with SSL.
HAProxy is considered by many in the industry to be one of the fastest and most popular and trusted software load balancer products in the marketplace today. Organizations are able to immediately deploy HAProxy solutions to enable websites and applications to optimize performance, security, and observability. HAProxy solutions are available to scale to any environment.
HAProxy is an open-source product and has a robust, active, reliable community. The solutions are continually tested and improved on by the community. HAProxy offers a dynamic design to support the most modern architectures, microservices, and deployment environments (appliances, containers, virtual, and cloud).
HAProxy utilizes a cloud-native protocol, which makes it a complete solution for cloud services such as Red Hat OpenShift, OVH, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and more. It also can be used as the reference load balancer in OpenStack.
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Reviews from Real Users
“Having the right load balancing solution – which is what HAProxy is – and protection in place gives organizations peace of mind.” - Nathanel S., Platform Architect at SES
“I use HAProxy for individuals who can not buy low balancers. I built NFV in a box and send individuals a pathway into an HAProxy VM. The setup was not difficult; it usually takes a day to complete for a VPC. When it comes to pricing, HAProxy is free.” - Nasir O., Network & Cloud Architect at Koala Compute Inc.
Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. Traditional load balancers operate at the transport layer (OSI layer 4 - TCP and UDP) and route traffic based on source IP address and port, to a destination IP address and port.
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