Alternatives to Azure Application Gateway
Compare Azure Application Gateway alternatives for your business or organization using the curated list below. SourceForge ranks the best alternatives to Azure Application Gateway in 2026. Compare features, ratings, user reviews, pricing, and more from Azure Application Gateway competitors and alternatives in order to make an informed decision for your business.
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SKUDONET
SKUDONET
SKUDONET Enterprise Edition is an Application Delivery and Security Platform built on Linux Debian 12.5 LTS for critical enterprise environments. Formerly known as Zevenet, it provides advanced L4/L7 load balancing, integrated WAF, TLS management with Let’s Encrypt and wildcard support, and protocol-aware traffic inspection across on-premises, hybrid, or cloud deployments, including SkudoCloud SaaS. A free trial is available for evaluation on the SKUDONET website. Key Features & Benefits: • High Availability: Clustering and failover to minimize downtime. • Advanced Security: WAF, L7 filtering, DoS protection, TLS with Let’s Encrypt and wildcard support. • Scalability: Optimized for high-throughput workloads with multi-core processing and efficient packet handling. • Traffic Control: Session persistence, custom routing rules, and granular L4/L7 inspection. • Centralized Management: Unified dashboard for configuration, monitoring, and policy automation.Starting Price: $1736/year/appliance -
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Edgenexus Load Balancer (ADC/WAF/GSLB)
Edgenexus
Choose us because we offer the easiest to use technology without sacrificing features or performance. We back this up with outstanding support and care, delivered under a fair and cost effective pricing model Our technology is used by the smallest startups with big ideas and small budgets all the way to global enterprises and anything in between. We love them all the same! Easy to use Load balancing, WAF, GSLB and SSO/Pre-Authentication. It is also the Only true ADP Application Delivery Platform where the functionality and lifespan can be enhanced using the app store or applications that you develop in house.Starting Price: $50 -
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Fortinet
Fortinet
Fortinet is a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, known for its comprehensive and integrated approach to safeguarding digital networks, devices, and applications. Founded in 2000, Fortinet provides a wide range of products and services, including firewalls, endpoint protection, intrusion prevention systems, and secure access solutions. At the core of its offerings is the Fortinet Security Fabric, a unified platform that seamlessly integrates security tools to deliver visibility, automation, and real-time threat intelligence across the entire network. Trusted by businesses, governments, and service providers worldwide, Fortinet emphasizes innovation, scalability, and performance, ensuring robust defense against evolving cyber threats while supporting digital transformation and business continuity. -
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Azure Virtual Network
Microsoft
Azure Virtual Network gives you an isolated and highly-secure environment to run your virtual machines and applications. Use your private IP addresses and define subnets, access control policies, and more. Use Virtual Network to treat Azure the same as you would your own datacenter. Traffic between Azure resources in a single region, or in multiple regions, stays in the Azure network—intra-Azure traffic doesn’t flow over the Internet. In Azure, traffic for virtual machine-to-virtual machine, storage, and SQL communication only traverses the Azure network, regardless of the source and destination Azure region. Inter-region virtual network-to-virtual network traffic also flows entirely across the Azure network. Use Virtual Network to extend your on-premises IT environment into the cloud, like you set up and connect to a remote branch office. You have options to securely connect to a virtual network—choose an IPsec VPN or a private connection by using Azure ExpressRoute.Starting Price: $0.01 per GB -
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Azure Virtual Desktop
Microsoft
Azure Virtual Desktop (formerly Windows Virtual Desktop) is a comprehensive desktop and app virtualization service running in the cloud. It’s the only virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) that delivers simplified management, multi-session Windows 10, optimizations for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, and support for Remote Desktop Services (RDS) environments. Deploy and scale your Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes, and get built-in security and compliance features. Bring your own device (BYOD) and access your desktop and applications over the internet using an Azure Virtual Desktop client such as Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, or HTML5. Choose the right Azure virtual machine (VM) to optimize performance and leverage the Windows 10 and Windows 11 multi-session advantage on Azure to run multiple concurrent user sessions and save costs. -
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AVANU WebMux
AVANU
AVANU’s WebMux Network Traffic Manager (“WebMux”) is a cost-effective full-featured enterprise-class load balancing solution. WebMux integrates application delivery network (ADN) and global server load balancing (GSLB) with its built-in FireEdge™ for Apps Web Application Firewall (WAF). In development since 1987, WebMux is developed using intensive algorithms for sophisticated network designs that require load balancing flexibility to meet and manage the most stringent network traffic demands. It manages, controls, and secures local network traffic for high availability of applications assuring reliable peak performance with geographic disaster recovery and affinity services and enhanced applications security firewall features. The user-friendly menu-driven interface makes WebMux fast to deploy and easy to manage. -
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FortiADC
Fortinet
FortiGSLB quickly and securely delivers. Applications anywhere. Horizontal scalability is a key factor when it comes to designing and deploying internet-based services and solutions for enterprise and carrier networks. These organizations must be able to quickly and easily add new network resources and deploy cloud-based applications to ensure business continuity as well as smooth disaster recovery in the event of data center or server failure. Yet, if internet connectivity or security is unreliable, these efforts are often stalled. Without this flexibility, business demands often force enterprises to upgrade to bigger and more powerful hardware devices to manage these capacity challenges. These upgrades can be costly and add significantly to the total cost of ownership (TCO) without addressing the issues of failover and service availability. -
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NetScaler
Cloud Software Group
Application delivery at scale can be complex. Make it simpler with NetScaler. Firmly on-prem. All-in on cloud. Good with hybrid. Whichever you choose, NetScaler works the same across them all. NetScaler is built with a single code base using a software-based architecture, so no matter which ADC form factor you choose — hardware, virtual machine, bare metal, or container — the behavior will be the same. Whether you are delivering applications to hundreds of millions of consumers, hundreds of thousands of employees, or both, NetScaler helps you do it reliably and securely. NetScaler is the application delivery and security platform of choice for the world’s largest companies. Thousands of organizations worldwide — and more than 90 percent of the Fortune 500 — rely on NetScaler for high-performance application delivery, comprehensive application and API security, and end-to-end observability. -
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OVH Load Balancer
OVHcloud
All our Cloud products can be scaled up or out with no constraints, in all our data centers. The OVH Load Balancer distributes the workload among your various services across our data centers. It ensures the scaling of your infrastructure in the event of heavy traffic, with optimized fault tolerance and response time. All this with a service level aiming for zero downtime. Configure and monitor your infrastructures from A to Z with our control panel. The let's encrypt DV SSL certificates are now included in all of our Load Balancer solutions – completely free – and will activate HTTPS protocol by default. The Anycast DNS system means that the server nearest to your user’s location will load your website, improving load times. Use metrics to monitor your Load Balancer's load and outgoing requests to your servers. This information can then be used to maximise your system’s performance!Starting Price: $22.99 per month -
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As strain increases on a website or business application, eventually, a single server cannot support the full workload. To meet demand, organizations spread the workload over multiple servers called "load balancing", this practice prevents a single server from becoming overworked, which could cause it to slow down, drop requests, and even crash. Load balancing lets you evenly distribute network traffic to prevent failure caused by overloading a particular resource. This strategy improves the performance and availability of applications, websites, databases, and other computing resources. It also helps process user requests quickly and accurately. From a user perspective, load balancing acts as an invisible facilitator that sits between a client and a group of servers, ensuring connection requests don’t get lost. Without load balancing, applications, websites, databases, and online services would likely fail when demand gets too high.
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Radware LinkProof NG
Radware
Link load balancers improve application availability and response times across networks and increases overall throughput of server resources. Radware LinkProof, is a load balancing network solution that significantly improves the performance of your network. Skip bottlenecks, avoid outages, manage bandwidth consumption and ensure your network is always ready to perform. LinkProof is the only on-demand solution that lets you effortlessly add, manage and load-balance multiple ISP connections while you mix and match VPNs or private and public links for back-up or in response to growing bandwidth needs. Through its "add links as you grow" approach. LinkProof allows you to add new links quickly to the existing connectivity solution as you grow your business, with no downtime or ISP involvement. LinkProof provides a broad multi-WAN link load balancing offering which is designed to cater to any market need, from the small branch office all the way up to the large enterprise. -
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VMware Avi Load Balancer
Broadcom
Simplify application delivery with software-defined load balancers, web application firewall, and container ingress services for any application in any data center and cloud. Simplify administration with centralized policies and operational consistency across on-premises data centers, and hybrid and public clouds, including VMware Cloud (VMC on AWS, OCVS, AVS, GCVE), AWS, Azure, Google, and Oracle Cloud. Free infrastructure teams from manual tasks and enable DevOps teams with self-service. Application delivery automation toolkits include Python SDK, RESTful APIs, Ansible and Terraform integrations. Gain unprecedented insights, including network, end users and security, with real-time application performance monitoring, closed-loop analytics and deep machine learning. -
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Azure Web Application Firewall
Microsoft
Azure Web Application Firewall is a cloud-native service that protects web apps from common web-hacking techniques such as SQL injection and security vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting. Deploy the service in minutes to get complete visibility into your environment and block malicious attacks. Protect your web applications in just a few minutes with the latest managed and preconfigured rule sets. The Azure Web Application Firewall detection engine combined with updated rule sets increases security, reduces false positives, and improves performance. Use Azure Policy to help enforce organizational standards and assess compliance at scale for Web Application Firewall resources. Get an aggregated view to evaluate the overall state of your environment.Starting Price: $0.443 per gateway per hour -
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Azure Load Balancer
Microsoft
Load-balance internet and private network traffic with high performance and low latency. Instantly add scale to your applications and enable high availability. Load Balancer works across virtual machines, virtual machine scale sets, and IP addresses. Equipped for load-balancing network layer traffic when high performance and super-low latency are needed. Standard Load Balancer routes traffic within and across regions, and to availability zones for high resiliency. Create highly available and scalable apps in minutes with built-in application load balancing for cloud services and virtual machines. Load Balancer supports TCP/UDP-based protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, and SMTP, and protocols used for real-time voice and video messaging applications. Manage traffic between virtual machines inside your private virtual networks, or use it to create multiple-tiered hybrid applications. -
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Loadbalancer.org
Loadbalancer.org
Since 2003, Loadbalancer.org has provided reliable, versatile and cost-effective load balancers engineered to improve the availability of your most critical IT applications. We have extensive experience of solving application delivery challenges, so you can expect honest advice and outstanding support from the load balancer experts. Working closely with leading technology providers in medical, object storage and print, our ADC solutions are specifically tailored to ensure seamless integration and better compatibility for enhanced performance of the entire solution.Starting Price: $95 per month -
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AWS Elastic Load Balancing
Amazon
Elastic Load Balancing automatically routes incoming application traffic across multiple destinations, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, Lambda functions, and virtual appliances. You can control the variable load of your application traffic in a single zone or in multiple Availability Zones. Elastic Load Balancing offers four types of load balancers that have the necessary level of high availability, automatic scalability, and security to make your applications fault tolerant. Elastic Load Balancing is part of the AWS network, with native knowledge of fault limits like AZ to keep your applications available in one region, without requiring Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB). ELB is also a fully managed service, which means you can focus on delivering applications and not installing fleets of load balancers. Capacity is automatically added and removed based on the utilization of the underlying application servers.Starting Price: $0.027 USD per Load Balancer per hour -
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Azure Traffic Manager
Microsoft
Azure Traffic Manager operates at the DNS layer to quickly and efficiently direct incoming DNS requests based on the routing method of your choice. An example would be sending requests to the closest endpoints, improving the responsiveness of your applications. Azure Traffic Manager offers six types of DNS-based traffic routing: Priority, performance, geographic, weighted round-robin, subnet, and multi-value. Choose the one that’s right for you or combine, using nested profiles. Traffic Manager can improve the availability of important applications by monitoring your Azure services, or external websites and services, automatically directing users to the next best location when there’s a failure. Traffic Manager makes your applications more responsive and improves content delivery times by directing your customers to Azure end points or an external location with the lowest network latency. -
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A10 Thunder ADC
A10 Networks
High-performance advanced load balancing solution that enables your applications to be highly available, accelerated, and secure. Ensure efficient and reliable application delivery across multiple datacenters and cloud. Minimize latency and downtime, and enhance end-user experience. Increase application security with advanced SSL/TLS offload, single sign-on (SSO), DDoS protection and Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities. Complete full-proxy Layer 4 load balancer and Layer 7 load balancer with flexible aFleX® scripting and customizable server health checks. -
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NGINX as a Service (NGINXaaS) for Azure is a fully managed offering that integrates the Microsoft Azure ecosystem with advanced NGINX traffic services. Lift and shift, migrate, or extend existing NGINX workloads to the cloud with minimal effort, helping your organization save money, increase flexibility, and achieve consistency in performance and security across its estate of on-prem and Azure cloud apps. Enables application developers to deliver consistent apps in the cloud, deployed straight from the Azure Marketplace with just a few clicks on the console. Deploy and manage NGINXaaS via the Azure Portal with built-in integrations, including Azure Monitor and Azure Key Vault for SSL/TLS certificate management. Seamless lift-and-shift experience of your existing NGINX configuration, so you can migrate or extend your workloads to the cloud faster and with minimal effort.Starting Price: $0.015 per ncu per hour
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Azure Front Door
Microsoft
Scalable and secure entry point for fast delivery of your global applications. Easily join your distributed microservice architectures into a single global application using HTTP load balancing and path-based routing rules. Automate turning up new regions and scale-out with API-driven global actions, and independent fault-tolerance to your back end microservices in Azure—or anywhere. Deliver and protect your global application close to your end users with a "battle-tested" service built on world-class Microsoft Global Network infrastructure. Always keep your traffic on the best path to your app, improve your service scale, reduce latency, and increase throughput for your global users with edge load balancing and application acceleration. Easily manage domain mapping and traffic to your microservice backends using one central, global dashboard. -
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Ivanti vADC
Ivanti
Delight your users with faster, more reliable applications, with no compromise on performance or security. More than just a software load balancer, Ivanti vADC drives more transactions, even at peak load conditions, ensuring continuous uptime and real-time security monitoring of application traffic. Enhance your customer experience and grow your business with more attractive and responsive services. Increase systems efficiency and boost the throughput of application servers and security by up to 50%. Reduce costs with flexible capacity-based licensing. Ivanti vADC is natively designed for virtualization and cloud portability. Ivanti vADC provides unprecedented scale and flexibility to enhance the performance and security of applications across the widest range of environments, from physical and virtual data centers to public and hybrid clouds. -
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Azure SignalR Service
Microsoft
With Azure SignalR Service, adding real-time communications to your web application is as simple as provisioning a service—no need to be a real-time communications guru! You don't have to provision and maintain servers just because you need real-time features in your solution. SignalR Service is fully managed which makes it easy to add real-time communication functionality to your application. No more worrying about hosting, scalability, or load balancing – it's all handled automatically. Benefit from everything Azure has to offer! Easily integrate with services such as Azure Functions, Azure App Service, Azure Active Directory, Azure Storage, Azure Analytics, Power BI, IoT, Cognitive Services, Machine Learning, and more. Use the SignalR Service Premium Tier to leverage enterprise capabilities such as auto-scaling, higher SLA, Azure Availability Zone support, and rate limiting. Send advanced metrics to Azure Monitor or integrate with other monitoring solutions.Starting Price: $1.61 per unit per day -
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Kemp LoadMaster
Progress Software
The Kemp LoadMaster load balancing solutions and extensive library of application deployment templates provide high-performance and secure delivery of application workloads from a wide range of vendors in multiple sectors. Award-winning hardware, virtual and cloud-native deployment options, including the industry’s first per-app software load balancer/ADC. Make informed decisions and deal with network anomalies in real-time. Optimized load-balancing hardware that delivers a high-performance application experience for any environment. World's most popular virtual load balancer with over 100,000 deployments worldwide. Fully featured cloud load balancers optimally sized and priced for public cloud environments. Extend the features and capabilities of a data center-class application delivery controller (ADC) to the cloud.Starting Price: $1990.00/year -
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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Microsoft
The fully managed Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) makes deploying and managing containerized applications easy. It offers serverless Kubernetes, an integrated continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) experience, and enterprise-grade security and governance. Unite your development and operations teams on a single platform to rapidly build, deliver, and scale applications with confidence. Elastic provisioning of additional capacity without the need to manage the infrastructure. Add event-driven autoscaling and triggers through KEDA. Faster end-to-end development experience with Azure Dev Spaces including integration with Visual Studio Code Kubernetes tools, Azure DevOps, and Azure Monitor. Advanced identity and access management using Azure Active Directory, and dynamic rules enforcement across multiple clusters with Azure Policy. Available in more regions than any other cloud providers. -
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LiteSpeed Web ADC
LiteSpeed Technologies
LiteSpeed Web ADC is an affordable, high-performance HTTP load balancer application. Feature-rich, secure, and efficient, it offers more flexibility than similarly-priced load balancing software. Web ADC is an excellent choice for small enterprises looking to scale their applications beyond one server. High Scalability, High Availability IP failover, Cross Datacenter Replication, Cache Data Synchronization and out-of-the box acceleration for Magento and Wordpress round out the feature set to make LiteSpeed Web ADC the best-of-breed solution on the market. LiteSpeed Web ADC is a 100% software solution, meaning it can operate anywhere: private dedicated hardware, hosted environment, the cloud, etc. Web ADC's nearly-instant on-demand scaling adapts to your business needs, even during unexpected traffic spikes, with a flexible subscription model. A highly efficient, security-conscious, cost-effective product.Starting Price: $715 per year -
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Azure Site Recovery
Microsoft
Azure Site Recovery is a native disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) that helps ensure business continuity by keeping business apps and workloads running during outages. It offers ease of deployment, cost-effectiveness, and dependability. Users can deploy replication, failover, and recovery processes through Site Recovery to help keep applications running during planned and unplanned outages. Setting up Azure Site Recovery involves replicating an Azure virtual machine to a different Azure region directly from the Azure portal. As a fully integrated offering, Site Recovery is automatically updated with new Azure features as they’re released. It allows minimizing recovery issues by sequencing the order of multi-tier applications running on multiple virtual machines. Compliance is ensured by testing disaster recovery plans without impacting production workloads or end users.Starting Price: $16 per month -
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Azure Backup
Microsoft
Azure Backup is a cost-effective, secure, one-click backup solution that’s scalable based on your backup storage needs. The centralized management interface makes it easy to define backup policies and protect a wide range of enterprise workloads, including Azure Virtual Machines, SQL and SAP databases, and Azure file shares. Monitor, operate, govern, and optimize data protection at scale in a unified and consistent manner using Backup Center. Back up and restore data from virtual machines with application consistency in Windows using Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and in Linux with pre- and post- processing scripts. Back up Azure Virtual Machines, on-premises servers, SQL Server and SAP HANA on Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Files, and Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Store your backups in locally redundant storage (LRS), geo-redundant storage (GRS), and zone-redundant storage (ZRS). Natively manage your entire backup estate from a central console using Backup Center.Starting Price: $5 per month -
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Google Cloud Load Balancer
Google
Scale your applications on Compute Engine from zero to full throttle with Cloud Load Balancing, with no pre-warming needed. Distribute your load-balanced compute resources in single or multiple regions—close to your users—and to meet your high availability requirements. Cloud Load Balancing can put your resources behind a single anycast IP and scale your resources up or down with intelligent autoscaling. Cloud Load Balancing comes in a variety of flavors and is integrated with Cloud CDN for optimal application and content delivery. With Cloud Load Balancing, a single anycast IP front-ends all your backend instances in regions around the world. It provides cross-region load balancing, including automatic multi-region failover, which gently moves traffic in fractions if backends become unhealthy. In contrast to DNS-based global load balancing solutions, Cloud Load Balancing reacts instantaneously to changes in users, traffic, network, backend health, and other related conditions.Starting Price: $0.025 per hour -
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Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Microsoft
Build, on your terms, large-scale services for batch, big data, and container workloads using Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets, which let you create and manage a group of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines (VMs). Increase or decrease the number of VMs automatically in response to demand or based on a schedule you define. Centrally manage, configure, and update thousands of VMs and provide higher availability and security for your applications. Increase application uptime by using availability zones and availability sets to automatically distribute VMs in a scale set within a single data center or across multiple data centers. Scale sets run multiple VM instances of your application. Therefore, if one of these instances has a problem, your customers will continue to access your application with minimal disruption. Virtual machine scale sets guarantee up to 99.99 percent service-level agreements (SLAs) for your VMs.Starting Price: $6.1320 per month -
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Azure Cloud Services
Microsoft
Build the web and cloud applications you need on your terms while using the many languages we support. Simplify the management of your applications with cloud services while ensuring high availability. Scale your environment automatically based on demand and reduce costs. Automate operating system and application updates to increase security. Take advantage of integrated health monitoring and load balancing. Focus on your application, not the underlying cloud infrastructure. Highly available and massively scalable platform for your applications and APIs. Accelerated application deployment. Autoscaling of your cloud environment to optimize costs and improve performance. Integrated health monitoring and load balancing with dashboards and real-time alerts. Excellent development experience using the Azure SDK, which integrates seamlessly with Visual Studio. Build and deploy powerful web and cloud applications and services in minutes with Azure Cloud Services. -
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Barracuda Load Balancer ADC
Barracuda Networks
The Barracuda Load Balancer ADC is ideal for organizations looking for a high-performance, yet cost-effective application delivery and security solution. Highly demanding enterprise networks require full-featured application delivery controller that optimizes application load balancing and performance while providing protection from an ever-expanding list of intrusions and attacks. The Barracuda Load Balancer ADC is a Secure Application Delivery Controller that enables Application Availability, Acceleration and Control, while providing Application Security Capabilities. Available in hardware, virtual and cloud instances, the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC provides advanced Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancing with SSL Offloading and Application Acceleration. The built-in Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) module allows you to deploy your applications across multiple geo-dispersed locations. The Application Security module ensures comprehensive web application protection.Starting Price: $1499.00/one-time -
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Azure Virtual Machines
Microsoft
Migrate your business- and mission-critical workloads to Azure infrastructure and improve operational efficiency. Run SQL Server, SAP, Oracle® software and high-performance computing applications on Azure Virtual Machines. Choose your favorite Linux distribution or Windows Server. Deploy virtual machines featuring up to 416 vCPUs and 12 TB of memory. Get up to 3.7 million local storage IOPS per VM. Take advantage of up to 30 Gbps Ethernet and cloud’s first deployment of 200 Gbps InfiniBand. Select the underlying processors – AMD, Ampere (Arm-based), or Intel - that best meet your requirements. Encrypt sensitive data, protect VMs from malicious threats, secure network traffic, and meet regulatory and compliance requirements. Use Virtual Machine Scale Sets to build scalable applications. Reduce your cloud spend with Azure Spot Virtual Machines and reserved instances. Build your private cloud with Azure Dedicated Host. Run mission-critical applications in Azure to increase resiliency. -
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Azure Private Link
Microsoft
Azure Private Link provides private connectivity from a virtual network to Azure platform as a service (PaaS), customer-owned, or Microsoft partner services. It simplifies the network architecture and secures the connection between endpoints in Azure by eliminating data exposure to the public internet. Private connectivity to services on Azure—traffic remains on the Microsoft network, with no public internet access. Use Private Link to bring services delivered on Azure into your private virtual network by mapping it to a private endpoint. Or privately deliver your own services in your customers’ virtual networks. All traffic to the service can be routed through the private endpoint, so no gateways, NAT devices, ExpressRoute or VPN connections, or public IP addresses are needed. Private Link keeps traffic on the Microsoft global network.Starting Price: $0.01 per hour -
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PowerVille LB
Dialogic
The Dialogic® PowerVille™ LB is a software-based high-performance, cloud-ready, purpose built and fully optimized network traffic load-balancer uniquely designed to meet challenges for today’s demanding Real-Time Communication infrastructure in both carrier and enterprise applications. Automatic load balancing for a variety of services including database, SIP, Web and generic TCP traffic across a cluster of applications. High availability, intelligent failover, contextual awareness and call state awareness features increase uptime. Efficient load balancing, resource assignment, and failover allow for full utilization of available network resources, to reduce costs without sacrificing reliability. Software agility and powerful management interface to reduce the effort and costs due to operations and maintenance. -
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Array APV Series
Array Networks
Array APV Series application delivery controllers provide the availability, scalability, performance, security and control essential to keeping applications and servers running in their power band. Integrated local and global server load balancing, as well as link load balancing, ensure the highest levels of resiliency for your applications, while connection multiplexing, SSL offload, caching and compression work together to deliver the fastest end-user experience possible. What’s more, by terminating connections on APV Series ADCs, applications are protected behind Array’s WebWall® application security suite. Available as physical or virtual appliances, or on popular public clouds, Array ADCs are designed to meet technical requirements while remaining simple enough for any size IT team and affordable enough for any size business. -
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Radware Alteon
Radware
Alteon is Radware’s next-generation application delivery controller (ADC) and the only network load balancer that guarantees application SLA. It provides advanced, end-to-end local and global load balancing capabilities for all Web, cloud and mobile-based applications. Alteon load balancer/ADC combines best-of-breed application delivery capabilities, market-leading SSL performance that supports all of the latest encryption protocols, and advanced services to companies with ongoing application lifecycle management challenges that impact the performance of web applications (such as heavier, more complex web content); mobility, and the migration to the cloud. Alteon is Radware’s next-generation application delivery controller (ADC) and the only network load balancer that guarantees application SLA. It provides advanced, end-to-end local and global load balancing capabilities for all Web, cloud and mobile-based applications. -
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Azure Route Server
Microsoft
Azure Route Server enables network appliances to exchange route information with Azure virtual networks dynamically. Configure your network appliances and Azure ExpressRoute and VPN gateways to automatically take the latest route information from Azure Route Server instead of manually talking to each network. Use Azure Route Server to enable dynamic routing between your network appliances and gateways in Azure, instead of using static routing. Azure Route Server provides Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) endpoints using standard routing protocol to exchange routes. Easily use Azure Route Server with existing deployments or new deployments with support for any network topology, such as hub and spoke, full mesh, or flat virtual network.Starting Price: $0.45 per hour -
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Azure Firewall
Microsoft
Azure Firewall is a managed, cloud-based network security service that protects your Azure Virtual Network resources. It's a fully stateful firewall as a service with built-in high availability and unrestricted cloud scalability. Azure Firewall is a managed, cloud-based network security service that protects your Azure Virtual Network resources. The stateful firewall service has built-in high availability and unrestricted cloud scalability to help you create, enforce, and log application and network connectivity policies across subscriptions and virtual networks. Simplify deployment and management of your network security with a scalable and highly available cloud native firewall. Centrally manage security across all virtual networks with a common set of network and application rules. -
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PAS-K
PIOLINK
The PAS-K, ADC in PIOLINK, is ideal for organizations in the fields of finance, education, public organizations, and telecommunication, with the high performance to accelerate application delivery and reinforce security. PAS-K provides the load balancing to distribute traffic to servers, firewalls, and VPNs, to maintain server resource and service stability. GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing) in PAS-K especially supports to build a disaster recovery center and a cloud data center. Guarantee your business continuity with flexible High Availability modes. PAS-K provides advanced acceleration features like memory caching, compression, FEO and SSL offloading to enhance your service quality and reduce server overloads. PAS-K series secure your data and systems from threatening various DDoS like HTTP DDoS, Syn flood, and Syn cookie. Also, it supports basic network firewall features to secure your network like filtering. -
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Azure DDoS
Microsoft
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are some of the largest availability and security concerns facing customers that are moving their applications to the cloud. A DDoS attack attempts to exhaust an application's resources, making the application unavailable to legitimate users. DDoS attacks can be targeted at any endpoint that is publicly reachable through the internet. Every property in Azure is protected by Azure's infrastructure DDoS (Basic) Protection at no additional cost. The scale and capacity of the globally deployed Azure network provides defense against common network-layer attacks through always-on traffic monitoring and real-time mitigation. DDoS Protection Basic requires no user configuration or application changes. DDoS Protection Basic helps protect all Azure services, including PaaS services like Azure DNS.Starting Price: $2,944 per month -
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Azure Marketplace
Microsoft
Azure Marketplace is a comprehensive online store that provides access to thousands of certified, ready-to-use software applications, services, and solutions from Microsoft and third-party vendors. It enables businesses to discover, purchase, and deploy software directly within the Azure cloud environment. The marketplace offers a wide range of products, including virtual machine images, AI and machine learning models, developer tools, security solutions, and industry-specific applications. With flexible pricing options like pay-as-you-go, free trials, and subscription models, Azure Marketplace simplifies the procurement process and centralizes billing through a single Azure invoice. It supports seamless integration with Azure services, enabling organizations to enhance their cloud infrastructure, streamline workflows, and accelerate digital transformation initiatives. -
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Nerdio
Adar
Empowering Managed Service Providers & Enterprise IT Professionals to quickly and easily deploy Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365, manage all environments from one simple platform, and optimize costs by saving up to 75% on Azure compute and storage. Nerdio Manager for Enterprise extends the native Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 admin capabilities with automatic and fast virtual desktop deployment, simple management in just a few clicks, and cost-optimization features for savings of up to 75% – paired with the unmatched security of Microsoft Azure and expert-level Nerdio support. Nerdio Manager for MSP is a multi-tenant Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 deployment, management, and optimization platform for Managed Service Providers that allows for automatic provisioning in under an hour (or connect to an existing deployment in minutes), management of all customers in a simple admin portal, and cost-optimization with Nerdio’s Advanced Auto-scaling.Starting Price: $100 per month -
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Azure Container Instances
Microsoft
Develop apps fast without managing virtual machines or having to learn new tools—it's just your application, in a container, running in the cloud. By running your workloads in Azure Container Instances (ACI), you can focus on designing and building your applications instead of managing the infrastructure that runs them. Deploy containers to the cloud with unprecedented simplicity and speed—with a single command. Use ACI to provision additional compute for demanding workloads whenever you need. For example, with the Virtual Kubelet, use ACI to elastically burst from your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster when traffic comes in spikes. Gain the security of virtual machines for your container workloads, while preserving the efficiency of lightweight containers. ACI provides hypervisor isolation for each container group to ensure containers run in isolation without sharing a kernel. -
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Azure Service Fabric
Microsoft
Focus on building applications and business logic, and let Azure solve the hard distributed systems problems such as reliability, scalability, management, and latency. Service Fabric is an open source project and it powers core Azure infrastructure as well as other Microsoft services such as Skype for Business, Intune, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Data Factory, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database, Dynamics 365, and Cortana. Designed to deliver highly available and durable services at cloud-scale, Azure Service Fabric intrinsically understands the available infrastructure and resource needs of applications, enabling automatic scale, rolling upgrades, and self-healing from faults when they occur. Focus on building features that add business value to your application, without the overhead of designing and writing additional code to deal with issues of reliability, scalability, management, or latency in the underlying infrastructure.Starting Price: $0.17 per month -
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Azure Firewall Manager
Microsoft
Central network security policy and route management for globally distributed, software-defined perimeters. Centralized configuration and management of multiple Azure Firewall instances, across Azure regions and subscriptions. Manage security policy configuration and logging across multiple Azure Firewall instances. Centralize Azure Firewall management across secured virtual hubs and hub virtual network deployments. Automate traffic routing for security filtering in secured virtual hubs. Integrate with third-party SECaaS partners for advanced protection. Use Firewall policy to secure one or more virtual hubs or Virtual Networks. Respond to threats rapidly using the Firewall Policy hierarchy. Use Secure Virtual Hub to easily attract branch and spoke VNET traffic to the Azure Firewall. Enforce zero trust with few clicks. Use Azure Firewall for local traffic and SECaaS provider for internet traffic filtering.Starting Price: $100 per policy per region -
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ScaleArc
Ignite Technologies
Database load balancing software that provides continuous availability at high-performance levels for mission-critical database systems deployed at scale. The ScaleArc software appliance is a database load balancer. It enables database administrators to create highly available, scaleable — and easy to manage, maintain and migrate — database deployments. ScaleArc works with Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL as on premise solution, and within the cloud for corresponding PaaS, as well as DBaaS solutions, including Amazon RDS or AzureSQL. -
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Windows Server Failover Clustering
Microsoft
Failover Clustering in Windows Server (and Azure Local) enables a group of independent servers to work together to improve availability and scalability for clustered roles (formerly known as clustered applications and services). These nodes are interconnected via hardware and software, and if one node fails, another assumes its roles through an automated failover process. Clustered roles are actively monitored and, if they stop functioning, are restarted or migrated to maintain service continuity. The feature also supports Cluster Shared Volumes (CSVs), which provide a unified, distributed namespace and consistent shared storage access across nodes, reducing service disruptions. Typical uses include high‑availability file shares, SQL Server instances, and Hyper‑V virtual machines. Failover Clustering is supported on Windows Server 2016, 2019, 2022, and 2025, and in Azure Local environments. -
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NGINX
F5
NGINX Open Source: The open source web server that powers more than 400 million websites. NGINX Plus is a software load balancer, web server, and content cache built on top of open source NGINX. Use NGINX Plus instead of your hardware load balancer and get the freedom to innovate without being constrained by infrastructure. Save more than 80% compared to hardware ADCs, without sacrificing performance or functionality. Deploy anywhere: public cloud, private cloud, bare metal, virtual machines, and containers. Save time by performing common tasks through the built‑in NGINX Plus API. From NetOps to DevOps, modern app teams need a self‑service, API‑driven platform that integrates easily into CI/CD workflows to accelerate app deployment – whether your app has a hybrid or microservices architecture – and makes app lifecycle management easier. -
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Azure IoT Hub
Microsoft
Managed service for bidirectional communication between IoT devices and Azure. Enable highly secure and reliable communication between your Internet of Things (IoT) application and the devices it manages. Azure IoT Hub provides a cloud-hosted solution back end to connect virtually any device. Extend your solution from the cloud to the edge with per-device authentication, built-in device management, and scaled provisioning. Use device-to-cloud telemetry data to understand the state of your devices and define message routes to other Azure services—without writing any code. In cloud-to-device messages, reliably send commands and notifications to your connected devices and track message delivery with acknowledgement receipts. Automatically resend device messages as needed to accommodate intermittent connectivity. Azure IoT Central: Proof of concept isn’t your endgame. We’ll help you build industry-leading solutions with a hosted IoT application platform.Starting Price: $10 per IoT unit per month -
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Azure Stack Edge
Microsoft
Run your workloads and get quick actionable insights right at the edge where data is created using purpose-built hardware-as-a-service with Azure Stack Edge. Simply order your appliance from the Azure portal in a hardware-as-a-service model, paid monthly via your Azure subscription. Get a seamless cloud-to-edge experience where you configure, monitor and update your Azure Stack Edge with the same management portal and development tools that you’ve come to expect from Azure. Run your containerized applications and VMs right at the edge where data is created and collected. Analyze, transform, and filter data at the edge, sending only the data you need to the cloud for further processing or storage. Build and train machine learning models in Azure or use Azure Cognitive service, and then utilize the built-in NVIDIA T4 GPU or Intel VPU in the Mini R to accelerate the results locally.Starting Price: $399 per month
