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Azure Application Gateway vs. Amazon Lightsail

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAzure Application Gateway

by Microsoft

Amazon Lightsail

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Overall rating4.44.3
Review count16159
Ease of use8.88.8
Ease of setup8.58.5
Quality of support8.88.0
Meets requirements9.08.7
NPS61.87050455.555556
Small Business21.1%55.9%
Mid-Market31.7%25.4%
Enterprise47.2%18.6%
Total page views281228
Total LLM citations7441,737

Azure Application Gateway

Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. Unlike traditional load balancers that operate at the transport layer (Layer 4), Application Gateway operates at the application layer (Layer 7), allowing it to make routing decisions based on attributes such as URL paths and host headers. This capability provides more control over how traffic is distributed to your applications, enhancing both performance and security.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Scalability
  • Features
  • Integrations
  • Cost Efficiency
  • User Interface

Amazon Lightsail

Amazon Lightsail is the easiest way to get started with AWS for developers, small businesses, students, and other users who need a simple virtual private server (VPS) solution. Lightsail provides developers compute, storage, and networking capacity and capabilities to deploy and manage websites and web applications in the cloud. Lightsail includes everything you need to launch your project quickly – a virtual machine, SSD-based storage, data transfer, DNS management, and a static IP – for a low, predictable monthly price.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Management Ease
  • Configuration Ease
  • Efficiency
  • Reliability
  • Real-time Analytics