🆚 Azure Application Gateway vs. Envoy

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Type

Load balancer
Load balancer

About

Azure Application Gateway is a managed web traffic load balancer and full reverse proxy that enables scalable, highly available, and secure web application delivery on Azure.

Envoy is a high-performance, open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and large microservice "service mesh" architectures.

It provides advanced L4/L7 load balancing, HTTP/2 and gRPC proxying, service discovery integration, observability with distributed tracing and rich metrics, and dynamic configuration via xDS APIs.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ❌
Application Gateway Basic
Fixed cost$0.0255/hour
Capacity unit$0.0091/hour
Application Gateway Standard
Fixed cost$0.246/hour
Capacity unit$0.008/hour
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Load Balancers › Rank #9
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Caching › Rank #11

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Envoy load balancer is 2.1 times more popular than Azure Application Gateway.
Total websites

Market share

Load Balancers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Envoy is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, while Azure Application Gateway is more popular in the Philippines, Ireland, and Denmark.
United States
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Germany
Japan
Canada
Brazil
France
Australia
Spain

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Envoy is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and finance and banking, while Azure Application Gateway is more commonly used on business, education and reference, and health sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Finance/Banking
Travel
Internet Services
Health
Software/Hardware
Entertainment

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#387
#1,406
attheraces.com
#1,525
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Rank
#12
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