Azure Front Door vs. Oracle Dyn Web Application Security Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Front Door
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Azure Front Door is a cloud content delivery network (CDN) service that helps users deliver high performance, scalability, and a secure user experiences for content and applications. It includes a customizable rules engine for advanced routing capabilities. It boasts instant scalability with global HTTP load balancing and failover.
$35
per month
Oracle Dyn WAF
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Oracle Dyn Web Application Security Platform extends beyond just typical Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities to offer Access Control, Bot Management, application DDoS protection and API security.N/A
Pricing
Azure Front DoorOracle Dyn Web Application Security Platform
Editions & Modules
Standard
$35
per month
Premium
$330
per month
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Azure Front DoorOracle Dyn WAF
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsBase fees (Billed hourly and only for number of hours used)​
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Community Pulse
Azure Front DoorOracle Dyn Web Application Security Platform
Considered Both Products
Azure Front Door
Chose Azure Front Door
It's generally hard to compare CDNs, each has its features, POP locations, latency, and availability. We have used many other CDNs, including Akamai, Verizon, and CloudFlare. They are all great, but each has its own advantages/disadvantages. From our perspective, all other …
Oracle Dyn WAF
Chose Oracle Dyn WAF
After a long period of cyber security research and close encounters with distributed denial of service attacks, I chose to deploy Oracle Dyn Web Application Security Platform to safeguard our apps. Oracle Dyn provides my company with the security it needs for its important …
Chose Oracle Dyn WAF
I have not used any other similar products to date, although I'm not sure what other use cases they could cover, I would be interested to try them out.
Chose Oracle Dyn WAF
I already put this in earlier, but to repeat - they were easier to work with, more technically capable and knowledgeable and not just trying to sell us on something. Their willingness to solve for our problems and work with us made them the clear winner.
Chose Oracle Dyn WAF
After several years involved with the issue of cyber security and having been very close with distributed denial of service attacks, having used several companies to protect our applications, I decided to opt for Oracle Dyn Web Application Security Platform. Definitely, Oracle …
Chose Oracle Dyn WAF
At the time we chose Zenedge, Dyn WAF was the clear leader. AWS WAF is almost 100% manual with no preset rules. Akamai and CloudFlare both excelled in CDN and Anti-DDoS services, but not in WAF services. Since that time, however, several competitors have appeared as well as …
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User Ratings
Azure Front DoorOracle Dyn Web Application Security Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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9.0
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8.0
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User Testimonials
Azure Front DoorOracle Dyn Web Application Security Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
Azure Front Door is very easy and fast to set up and implement, if you are looking for an easy solution that is secure and reliable, Front Door does all that and can be configured in a few hours. AFD is a CDN with WAF, accordingly, it is well suited for any CDN Scenario, other providers such as Akamai or Verizon have a more expensive base price and are harder to manage/configure, Front Door is simple, easy, and provides what's needed when it comes to Web App Security. If you have multiple data centers, have apps in different regions, or targeting a global audience, AFD is an excellent option to get up to speed quickly. If you are looking for more features and capabilities, or planning a very complex setup, Front Door might be sufficient, but other specialized provides such as Imperva, Cloudflare or Akamai are generally a bit more advanced (but harder to set up and maintain). It always depends on the scenario, but for us, Front Door was an excellent option and served us very well with no issues.
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Dyn WAF is a good product, don't get me wrong. Zenedge was constantly improving the product, adding new features on a regular basis. It works very well for dynamic websites, helping weed out SQL Injection, XSS, XSRF, and other attacks. We have also used this product to protect REST API endpoints. Again, the product works very well to repel attacks.
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Pros
  • Content delivery across all continents
  • Web & media acceleration
  • Web application firewall
  • Backend geo-availability
  • Reporting & access metrics
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  • With Oracle Dyn Web Application Security Platform we have a complete dashboard (dojo) to manage, configure, visualize, all the features and functionalities of the platform in a very simple and friendly way.
  • Oracle Dyn Web Application Security Platform support is something out of the ordinary. Oracle engineers are available 24/7, every day. There is no requirement that can not be satisfactorily addressed by them. The response time, by different ways, is almost instantaneous.
  • It is very easy to communicate with any Oracle official to discuss any topic.
  • Despite being a service with all the features to provide 100% protection, my experience is that the cost of Oracle Dyn Web Application Security Platform is worth it.
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Cons
  • Better control over origin caching
  • Hierarchal Management UI instead of distributed management
  • TLS & Cipher Control
  • Faster publishing or change updates
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  • Sometimes engineers while applying updates may impact the stability of the service for a brief moment.
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Alternatives Considered
It's generally hard to compare CDNs, each has its features, POP locations, latency, and availability. We have used many other CDNs, including Akamai, Verizon, and Cloudflare. They are all great, but each has its own advantages/disadvantages. From our perspective, all other providers were much harder to configure and maintain and their overall cost was higher than AFD. For example, Verizon was great, performance was excellent, but reporting/logging was not up to our expectations, and we had many issues with its Rules Engine. AFD is great for delivering your web apps globally quickly and easily, the cost is reasonable and comes with very little operational overhead, the logging and reporting capabilities are very good, additionally, its integration with Azure Cloud Services gives it an advantage over other competitors.
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I already put this in earlier, but to repeat - they were easier to work with, more technically capable and knowledgeable and not just trying to sell us on something. Their willingness to solve for our problems and work with us made them the clear winner.
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Return on Investment
  • AFD implementation was approx. 80% cheaper than other providers, from initiation to operation.
  • It allowed us to minimize backend resources size/processing power, taking all the load from client requests, cutting tens of thousands of dollars monthly on compute, memory, and network bandwidth.
  • Overall, the ROI of AFD is very quick, it is not an expensive solution, therefore, its ROI goals are easy to calculate and achieve, our overall ROI exceeded 300%.
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  • Has a user-friendly interface that is both informative and intuitive.
  • The client's websites are monitored round-the-clock by a staff that provides quick response in the event of any difficulties.
  • Deploying it is a breeze.
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