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Azure Application Gateway vs. IBM Load Balancer

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Application Gateway
Score 8.8 out of 10
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Microsoft's Azure Application Gateway is a platform-managed, scalable, and highly available application delivery controller as a service with integrated web application firewall.N/A
IBM Load Balancer
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
IBM Load Balancer supports load balance of traffic among servers to improve uptime and easily scae applications by adding or removing servers, with minimal disruption to traffic flows.N/A
Pricing
Azure Application GatewayIBM Load Balancer
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Azure Application GatewayIBM Load Balancer
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Azure Application GatewayIBM Load Balancer
Considered Both Products
Azure Application Gateway
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Azure Application Gateway
Azure Application Gateway provides seamless integration with azure services and platforms like azure load balancer, azure monitor, also it offer advanced load balancing capabilities and build in WAF Functionality.
Dima Kazavchinsky | TrustRadius Reviewer
Dima Kazavchinsky
System and DevOps Engineer
Chose Azure Application Gateway
Other load balancing tools in Azure (Azure LB and Azure Traffic Manager) are limited in their functionality in comparison with the Azure Application Gateway, and also, they don't provide security features. Azure Firewall, although it has security features, is more expensive, …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Azure Application Gateway
I have my dependency application in Azure Application Gateway. I had to use this, and it has all the features we were looking for.
Janne Mikola | TrustRadius Reviewer
Janne Mikola
Technical Product Manager
Chose Azure Application Gateway
HAProxy is an excellent load balancer that can also be used in cloud environments (and we do!), and is relied by hyper-large enterprises globally as well. However, HAProxy is a little bit more rudimentary in feature space, it does the core job well and securely, but doesn't …
Mounika Chirasani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mounika Chirasani
Software Engineer
Chose Azure Application Gateway
Azure Application Gateway gives you application-level routing and load-balancing services that let you build a scalable and highly-available web front end in Azure.
IBM Load Balancer

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User Ratings
Azure Application GatewayIBM Load Balancer
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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Support Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Azure Application GatewayIBM Load Balancer
Likelihood to Recommend
The best practice for a cloud environment is to use the tools provided by the cloud provider. That's why for Azure cloud, Azure Application Gateway is the most cost-effective solution that you can use. You can use a single Azure Application Gateway instance for load balancing WAF, URL-based routing, and more.
Dima Kazavchinsky | TrustRadius Reviewer
Dima Kazavchinsky
System and DevOps Engineer
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Pros
  • Uploading images by multiple end-users from several applications like web, mobile, etc.
  • When there is a high volume of data requests, it helps to queue them based on the type of request. So it's easy to serve and reduce the loading time from the application layer.
  • An application gateway is useful when it can identify the type of details the user is requesting.
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Anonymous
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Cons
  • More cost-effective pricing plans are welcome for the future, especially for WAF
  • Ability to automate the TLS certificate renewal procedure
  • Ability to manage non-HTTP traffic
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Anonymous
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Usability
Most of the Application Gateway's features and services can be managed and re-configured via either the Azure Portal GUI or via the Azure Cloud Shell, thus allowing both CLI modes, i.e. Azure CLI (Bash) and Azure Powershell. The v2 version of Application Gateway has significantly improved performance during initial configuration or during re-configuration changes, thus making it much more usable for IT admins, as compared to v1.
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Anonymous
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Support Rating
I don’t like that it's part of the Microsoft brand. In general, I am not a fan of Microsoft products but Azure gets it right.
Mounika Chirasani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mounika Chirasani
Software Engineer
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Alternatives Considered
HAProxy is an excellent load balancer that can also be used in cloud environments (and we do!), and is relied by hyper-large enterprises globally as well. However, HAProxy is a little bit more rudimentary in feature space, it does the core job well and securely, but doesn't provide any fancy additional features. Also, it takes more effort to deploy HAProxy than simply using an in-built feature in the Azure stack.
Janne Mikola | TrustRadius Reviewer
Janne Mikola
Technical Product Manager
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Return on Investment
  • We are using Azure Application Gateway as the load balancing tool for our applications deployed on Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) clusters.
Mounika Chirasani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mounika Chirasani
Software Engineer
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