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Huawei Cloud WAF vs Microsoft Azure Application Gateway comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Huawei Cloud WAF
Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)
42nd
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Azure Application...
Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)
10th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
50
Ranking in other categories
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category, the mindshare of Huawei Cloud WAF is 0.8%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is 2.8%, down from 7.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Application Firewall (WAF) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Azure Application Gateway2.8%
Huawei Cloud WAF0.8%
Other96.4%
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
 

Featured Reviews

Chinedu Omenogor - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Operations Engineer at Galaxy Backbone Ltd
Easy to use, but its feature set could be expanded to mirror what currently exists on the public cloud
We have a private cloud leveraging Huawei technology. We use Huawei Cloud WAF to provide cloud services for governments, ministries, departments, and some private sector organizations The most valuable feature of Huawei Cloud WAF is its ease of use. It would be good if the solution's feature set…
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 feature of Huawei Cloud WAF is its ease of use."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is its ease of use."
"The security feature in all the layers of the application is the most valuable."
"It is a scalable solution...The installation phase of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is very easy."
"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."
"I think the WAF feature is valuable, it replicates your firewall."
"The production is a valuable feature."
"The solution integrates different applications and APIs securely, enhancing overall security and network optimization."
"The tool is easy to use and quite flexible. It has policy management features as well. The solution screens all traffic to our web applications before passing it to the application. We recently tested it on one of our poorly developed applications, and the upgrade gave us a 100% result based on our tests. It's very effective as a security measure, and people can detect threats even through the web application."
 

Cons

"It would be good if the solution's feature set could be expanded to mirror what currently exists on the public cloud."
"The user interface could be better."
"The solution is easy to use overall, but the dashboard could be updated with a better layout and graphical design so that we can see the data a bit easier. Microsoft could also add more documentation. The documentation Microsoft provides doesn't tell us about resource requirements. We found that the instances we had weren't sufficient to support the firewall, so we had to increase them."
"The support that they provide could be faster."
"Implementing and standardizing the solution across the IT landscape in a heterogeneous environment is painful."
"The solution doesn’t support wildcard-based and regular expression-based rules."
"We have encountered some issues with automatic redirection and cancellation, leading to 502 and 504 gateway errors. So, I experienced some trouble with containers."
"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."
"It could be easier to change servicing."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The solution is paid monthly. The solution is highly expensive."
"The product is not expensive."
"We use the tool's basic subscription. Its licensing costs are monthly."
"The solution's pricing is not complex. It is not expensive from our point of view."
"I would rate the pricing a three out of ten, with ten being cheap and one being expensive."
"It is not expensive."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is expensive."
"I rate the pricing seven out of ten because some third-party solutions are even costlier than this."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Insurance Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Construction Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise24
 

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Azure Application Gateway, MS Azure Application Gateway
 

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