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Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall [EOL] vs Microsoft Azure Application Gateway comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 2, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

Ivanti Virtual Web Applicat...
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
17th
Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)
44th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Azure Application...
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
13th
Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)
10th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
50
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) category, the mindshare of Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall [EOL] is 2.5%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is 4.5%, down from 7.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Azure Application Gateway4.5%
Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall2.5%
Other93.0%
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
 

Featured Reviews

MD
Consultant at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
Good feature set and is simple to deploy
In terms of what needs improvement, the price could be lowered. We've tried to deploy more of them but our purchasing department has said that they're way too expensive and they would prefer to use something else. We sort of stopped deploying them because of that. There are additional costs to the standard licensing. There are bandwidth prices. The feature set is quite good. We've been told to stop using them because of the price. If they can do something to address that I believe it would be better. On the latest version they've got a community edition, which is quite a good bandwidth, but in essence, it's to address the entry-level price. When you get to 10 gig bandwidth, it's way too expensive.
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 aspect of this solution is that it is simple to deploy. The deployment took us ten minutes."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway impacts our cost savings while maintaining higher performance."
"The solution has built-in rules that reduce alerts and are easy to configure."
"The simplicity of the solution and its ability to integrate easily with others are its most valuable aspects."
"Using policies to link and manage these URL-based routing configurations is also valuable."
"The tool helps manage microservices by providing developers with a platform to conduct tests and assessments on the web application. The custom domain option is one of the most valuable features I've found. This feature is incredibly helpful for the end-users of the web application. With the custom domain feature, you can change the lengthy link to a shorter, more memorable one. For example, instead of using a lengthy default link, you can customize it to something like imail.com, which is much easier to remember and share."
"It has a filter available, although we are not currently using it because it is not part of our requirements. But it is a good option and when it becomes part of our requirements we will definitely use it."
"The best features for Microsoft Azure Application Gateway basically protect your application and provide security-related features and also divert the traffic to different instances of your application."
"This product works well to secure my public facing websites from things like sql injections"
 

Cons

"In terms of what needs improvement, the price could be lowered. We've tried to deploy more of them but our purchasing department has said that they're way too expensive and they would prefer to use something else."
"The working speed of the solution needs improvement."
"Overall, I would rate Microsoft Azure Application Gateway seven out of ten. It can be improved; for example, one feature I mentioned is the support for non-HTTPS protocols such as TCP, which could allow one endpoint for all kinds of protocols."
"One of the challenges we faced was the solution does not support any other PCP protocols apart from HTTP and HTTPS."
"The increased security that we are considering is because of some of the things that the security team has brought to our attention. They have pointed out that we would most likely require a better web application firewall than Azure Application Gateway."
"We got the feeling that this product wasn't stable or good enough for us."
"The security of the product could be adjusted."
"It could be easier to change servicing."
"The pricing of the solution is a bit high. The solution should offer different pricing systems."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It is an expensive solution. We have an enterprise agreement, it is monthly."
"The tool's pricing model is pay-as-you-go."
"I rate the pricing seven out of ten because some third-party solutions are even costlier than this."
"It is not expensive."
"The product is not expensive."
"I would rate the pricing a three out of ten, with ten being cheap and one being expensive."
"The price of the solution can be reduced a bit."
"The solution is cheaper than Imperva. I rate it four to five out of ten."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
17%
Construction Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

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

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Also Known As

Pulse vWAF, Pulse Virtual Traffic Manager
Azure Application Gateway, MS Azure Application Gateway
 

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