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Array APV Series Load Balancing & App Delivery vs. Azure Application Gateway

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Array APV Series Load Balancing & App Delivery
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Array APV Series, from global company Array Networks headquartered near San Francisco, is an application delivery controller. Array load balancing and application delivery provides the availability, scalability, performance, security, and control essential to keeping applications running in their power band. Deployed in front of web and application servers, the APV distributes traffic, scales server pools, maintains persistence, and accelerates applications. Load balancers are an essential data…N/A
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
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User Testimonials
Array APV Series Load Balancing & App DeliveryAzure Application Gateway
Likelihood to Recommend
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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
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Pros
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  • 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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Cons
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  • 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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Usability
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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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Support Rating
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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
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Alternatives Considered
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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
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Return on Investment
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  • 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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