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Huawei Cloud WAF vs Microsoft Azure Application Gateway comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Huawei Cloud WAF
Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)
42nd
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Azure Application...
Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)
9th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
50
Ranking in other categories
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category, the mindshare of Huawei Cloud WAF is 0.8%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is 2.8%, down from 6.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Application Firewall (WAF) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Azure Application Gateway2.8%
Huawei Cloud WAF0.8%
Other96.4%
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
 

Featured Reviews

Chinedu Omenogor - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Operations Engineer at Galaxy Backbone Ltd
Easy to use, but its feature set could be expanded to mirror what currently exists on the public cloud
We have a private cloud leveraging Huawei technology. We use Huawei Cloud WAF to provide cloud services for governments, ministries, departments, and some private sector organizations The most valuable feature of Huawei Cloud WAF is its ease of use. It would be good if the solution's feature set…
SS
Cloud Specialist at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Mutual TLS has secured our web services and now needs broader protocol support
The most valuable feature we have found in Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is mutual TLS. We find mutual TLS valuable because we can verify the client securely by setting up the trust certificate of the client, and also if we do it at the client side as well. This successfully develops mutual trust, ensuring that we know the client who is calling our service is a legitimate client. That is a very nice feature.Microsoft Azure Application Gateway has helped manage our traffic efficiently because we have many web services that we can put behind the same URL, and we can have different URLs with the same Application Gateway with a limited number of listeners. We can do host-based routing as well as URL-based routing or path-based routing. It supports both, so we can have even a single URL supporting many applications, or we can have different URLs for different applications respectively. We have both use cases.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Huawei Cloud WAF is its ease of use."
"The load balancing features are valuable."
"Up until this point, it's working great for us; it's excellent at catching attacks and suspicious content and works well for us while offering good performance."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the web application firewall (WAF)."
"The solution integrates different applications and APIs securely, enhancing overall security and network optimization."
"I believe it is up to the mark, as Microsoft security is bulletproof."
"The Azure Application Gateway allows us to hide all of our backend components from our clients."
"The solution was very easy to configure. It wasn't hard at all to adjust it to our needs."
"In my experience, Microsoft products have a smooth integration and facilitate easy management and monitoring. Using Azure Application Gateway allows us to efficiently handle the system loads."
 

Cons

"It would be good if the solution's feature set could be expanded to mirror what currently exists on the public cloud."
"The solution should provide more security for certificate-based services so that we can implement more security on that."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway could improve by allowing features to use more third-party tools."
"It could be easier to change servicing."
"We faced some downtime while validating CNAME."
"The solution doesn’t support wildcard-based and regular expression-based rules."
"The main drawback of the solution is that it's only for Azure."
"The solution is easy to use overall, but the dashboard could be updated with a better layout and graphical design so that we can see the data a bit easier. Microsoft could also add more documentation. The documentation Microsoft provides doesn't tell us about resource requirements. We found that the instances we had weren't sufficient to support the firewall, so we had to increase them."
"It does not have the flexibility for using public IPs in version 2."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"We use the tool's basic subscription. Its licensing costs are monthly."
"I rate the price of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway an eight out of ten."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is a pretty affordable product. My company needs to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs of the solution. The additional costs apart from the licensing costs of the solution vary."
"It is an expensive solution. We have an enterprise agreement, it is monthly."
"The solution is paid monthly. The solution is highly expensive."
"The solution is fairly priced."
"There is some additional cost, such as extended support."
"The product is not expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Insurance Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Construction Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise24
 

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Azure Application Gateway, MS Azure Application Gateway
 

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