Microsoft Azure Application Gateway vs Sucuri comparison

Microsoft and Sucuri Security are both solutions in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category. Microsoft is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.5, while Sucuri Security is ranked #37. Microsoft holds a 4.9% mindshare in WAF, compared to Sucuri Security’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Sucuri Security users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

Sucuri and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway are competitors in the web application security and delivery sector. Sucuri is preferred for its affordability and strong security features, whereas Azure Application Gateway stands out with its vast feature set and integration within the Azure ecosystem, although it comes with a higher cost.

Features: Sucuri provides a robust web application firewall, DDoS protection, and malware scanning, ensuring solid website security and monitoring. Azure Application Gateway offers advanced load balancing, SSL termination, and seamless integration with Azure services, catering well to complex enterprise environments.

Room for Improvement: Sucuri could improve by expanding its integration capabilities and offering more advanced customization options. The user interface could also be enhanced for better usability. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway could benefit from simplified setup processes and lower pricing to appeal to smaller businesses. Its monitoring features could be further refined for better user experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Sucuri is known for simple deployment and responsive customer support, making it accessible for various web platforms. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway requires more technical knowledge for deployment but offers robust support within the Azure ecosystem.

Pricing and ROI: Sucuri's pricing is budget-friendly, offering a good return on investment for its security services. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway involves higher initial and ongoing costs, justified by its comprehensive feature offerings and integrations.

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Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category, the mindshare of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is 5.4%, down from 6.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is 4.9%, down from 10.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sucuri is 1.3%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Web Application Firewall (WAF) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Microsoft Azure Application Gateway	4.9%
Cloudflare Web Application Firewall	5.4%
Sucuri	1.3%
Other	88.4%

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Featured Reviews

Dean Barisic

CTO at PlayNirvana

Advanced security reporting has protected high-traffic betting platforms from constant attacks

I don't see room for improvement to Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. One thing I don't know much about because we have a dedicated IT team for that, and I'm not involved with Cloudflare much anymore. But if I were to compare them to F5, I would like to see more features that F5 offers. F5 has an option to bring the whole infrastructure, the whole WAF and all their packages, Bot Management, and everything else on your infrastructure. You need to install certain services from their side, and then you can choose if you would like requests to hit your servers immediately or if requests need to be proxied through F5 backbone. That would be a nice addition because we have 90% of the traffic as legit traffic coming from whitelisted servers. If it comes from whitelisted servers, I don't need to go every request through the backbone; I could easily just IP whitelist everything. Then I could maybe have Bot Management on my infrastructure that drastically reduces the price of Cloudflare. I would like to see Push CDN more improved in the next release of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. And maybe something similar to Pushpin that Fastly has, which is an option where you can push messages that then can be scaled globally over the network. From our perspective, if we have a listener that listens for stock updates, I would just need to have one processor that pushes those updates to the Cloudflare API, and then Cloudflare would broadcast that message to all listeners. Cloudflare will check the order of the message, and if you, as a customer, are not connected or have some kind of network issue, when you reconnect, you will receive the latest state and missing updates.

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reviewer5599486

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.

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Jagobandhu Some

Hardware Engineer at Ministry of Defense

A cost-effective choice for website security and informative support with issues related to CDN quality

One area where they could improve is in providing real-time support options because now you need to open a support ticket and wait for their response. It would greatly benefit customers if they implemented an online chat or messaging system for quicker assistance. I have found their Content Delivery Network service to be lacking in quality, and it could certainly be enhanced to provide better performance. I would also like to see improvements in the deployment process, as it currently takes more time than desirable. Another significant concern is that their service when your website is down, turns it into a static site. This means that if customers try to visit your site during downtime, they will see old content from the static site, which is not ideal. The CDN and tracking services are areas that need improvement, as well as addressing their bandwidth limitations.

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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

"I'm highly satisfied. It's remarkably user-friendly, enabling me to quickly identify issues, and deploy solutions, and it offers the necessary features."

"Caching is the most valuable feature of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall."

"The integration of Cloudflare with Cloud Suite is its most valuable feature."

"The solution protects our application, which runs on the HTTP protocol, from DDoS attacks."

"The setup process is very simple for me."

"Technical support has a very fast response time and they are helpful."

"Does a good job preventing web application attacks."

"The security features are valuable. The particular feature we use is called OWASP."

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"I find Application Gateway’s WAF module valuable because it helps prevent layer 7 attacks."

"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."

"The solution has built-in rules that reduce alerts and are easy to configure."

"Microsoft has a vast variety of tools, and it blends very well."

"The solution integrates different applications and APIs securely, enhancing overall security and network optimization."

"The solution's integration is very good."

"We can control what rules should be used and what should be disabled."

"I rate Microsoft Azure Application Gateway's scalability a ten out of ten. My company has more than 1000 users who use it daily."

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"The most valuable part is the analytics and visualization."

"The initial setup was straightforward. Straight forward because the plugin can simply be installed and then it does its job. It's not complex, there is no learning curve. The online scan is simple, you put in the website address and the scan gives us a report on the browser itself. It's simple to use."

"It significantly eases the workload and streamlines the initial setup required to protect a website."

"I use it as a WAF, which is basically a web firewall to monitor and block traffic to our web server."

"Domain name scanning since it allows us to scan all our domain names and determine whether it has malware or if is reported as phishing."

"The initial setup was very easy."

Cons

"We have noticed some latency when the call goes through the firewall. That could be improved."

"The platform's control features related to real-time authentication and response time need improvement."

"The user interface is very simple and straightforward, but users need knowledge about DNS to accomplish tasks."

"The solution's learning curve can still be further reduced"

"Cloudflare Web Application Firewall should improve visibility for a customer."

"There could be an option to duplicate the cluster to maintain the consistency of rules."

"They need to improve their support because getting a response for basic requests took around 48 hours, which is too long."

"The dashboard could be more user-friendly."

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"The pricing of the solution could be improved. Right now, it's a bit expensive."

"It could be more stable, and support could be better. It would also be better if they offered more features. For example, it lacks security features. Before we used another English solution, and we realized that some of the rules were not set up correctly and passed through the Application Gateway's English controllers. But the problem, in this case, is if you send ten rules, for example, six rules hit some issues. IP address blocking could be better. The rules, for example, don't work properly. If you have one issue, one rule or another rule will not work. This sounds like total madness to me."

"The support can be improved when you are configuring the system rules. The Disaster Recovery feature can be added in the next release. The price of the solution can be reduced a bit."

"The support provided for the solution has certain shortcomings that need improvement, especially when it comes to the response time from the support team."

"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."

"The monitoring on the solution could be better."

"The solution could improve by increasing the performance when doing updates. For example, if I change the certificate it can take 30 minutes. Other vendors do not have this type of problem."

"We have encountered some issues with automatic redirection and cancellation, leading to 502 and 504 gateway errors. So, I experienced some trouble with containers."

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"I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. The reason is that we have found sometimes customers or Google saying that there is something wrong with the website but Sucuri says that the site is clean so we do have to look at the site manually which means that the Sucuri scan does not pick up anything and everything."

"Sucuri could provide help for specific security alerts in-line instead of requiring users to search for it in the help section."

"It would greatly benefit customers if they implemented an online chat or messaging system for quicker assistance."

"In terms of improvement, the cost factor is always there."

"The main improvement I would like to see is support for .NET applications. If they could include this feature, I would include more sites in the protection."

"Confident score: Currently it does not have one and there are cases that most websites flagged are false-positives."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is not too pricey."

"The pricing model is very straightforward compared to the competition. You just pay per month for the product and usage."

"Cloudflare offers different types of subscriptions for businesses, enterprises, and personal users, and the pricing is negotiable."

"It starts at $20 and can easily go up to $200 monthly"

"Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is more affordable than other solutions."

"The annual licensing fee is $10,000 USD."

"What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing? I believe the pricing is not the best, but it's reasonable and acceptable. We also use the McAfee system in parallel. In terms of pricing, its okay - not great, but not bad either. It falls in the middle, which is acceptable. In terms of support licensing, last time, we were searching for a solution, and we considered products from resellers rather than directly from the cloud provider. However, the pricing we encountered was exceptionally high. As a result, we are inclined to select support from the reseller."

"We pay $210 per month for CloudFlare WAF."

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"I would rate the pricing a three out of ten, with ten being cheap and one being expensive."

"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."

"We use the tool's basic subscription. Its licensing costs are monthly."

"The solution is cheaper than Imperva. I rate it four to five out of ten."

"I rate the pricing seven out of ten because some third-party solutions are even costlier than this."

"There is a need to pay a fixed price per month to use the product. There are no additional payments to be made to Microsoft apart from the charges paid towards the monthly licensing costs attached to the solution."

"Regarding pricing for Azure Application Gateway, I would rate it at seven."

"The solution's pricing is not complex. It is not expensive from our point of view."

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"Sucuri offers different plans, both the standard plan and an advanced plan. So there are different plans to choose from."

"I’d simply say it’s really worth it."

"The ROI has been very good. Because of the solution, I have a tax break. The site developers were not always experienced people. We used to pay more for cleaning up the site when it was infected. Now, we have peace of mind knowing that the solution will clean up the site and that we won't have to go through the unnecessary process of restoring it from a backup. The protection on the WAF and the measures for backups have also prevented our site from going down."

"It stands out as a more cost-effective option compared to other cloud-based security services like Cloudflare or JetPass."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

11%

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Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

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Comms Service Provider

12%

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Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	6

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Small Business	22
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	24

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Overview

Cloudflare Web Application Firewall's intuitive dashboard enables users to build powerful rules through easy clicks and also provides Terraform integration. Every request to the WAF is inspected against the rule engine and the threat intelligence curated from protecting over 27 Million websites. Suspicious requests can be blocked, challenged or logged as per the needs of the user while legitimate requests are routed to the destination, agnostic of whether it lives on-premise or in the cloud. Analytics and Cloudflare Logs enable visibility into actionable metrics for the user.

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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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