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    AWS WAF

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Web Services offers AWS WAF (web application firewall) to protect web applications from malicious behavior that might impede the applications functioning and performance, with customizable rules to prevent known harmful behaviors and an API for creating and deploying web security rules.

    $0.60

    per 1 million requests

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    AWS WAF
    Editions & Modules
    Resource Type - Request
    $0.60
    per 1 million requests
    Resource Type - Rule
    $1.00
    per month (prorated hourly)
    Resource Type - Web ACL
    $5.00
    per month (prorated hourly)
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    Pricing Offerings
    AWS WAF
    Free Trial
    No
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    AWS WAF
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Chose AWS WAF
    When it comes to integration with AWS resources, we found that AWS WAF can easily integrate with CloudFront, API gateway, ALB, etc. When we analyzed other products, we found that the integration can be a little more difficult than just a click of a button. However, the pricing …
    Incentivized
    Chose AWS WAF
    Easy of use. Setup and configuration is fairly quick. There are the usual advantages of it being a cloud solution where you can buy into the solution, configure it and set it up and get it up and running. If you are already a subscriber to AWS, having a native service has …
    Incentivized
    Chose AWS WAF
    Comparatively, AWS WAF is far more prevalent in modern age web application as most of the High-Traffic E-commerce sites are moved on AWS. Due to this most developers are familiar with WAF, in addition its pretty easy comparatively as well. So other solutions may only come into …
    Incentivized
    Chose AWS WAF
    We have never used any other web application firewall.
    Incentivized
    Chose AWS WAF
    There are a number of reasons to select AWS WAF. Most importantly, it easy to deploy. It helps programmers to protect against a wide range of vulnerabilities like injection attacks, DDoS, and many others from OWASP top 10. It allows us to set up rules and blocks any threats …
    Incentivized
    Chose AWS WAF
    The integration with AWS services is pretty straight forward and provides a lot of functionalities other products don't. AWS Managed Rules can be used for easy setup with high protection options or Custom Rules can be created to costomize WAF to fit our needs.
    Incentivized
    Chose AWS WAF
    Unlike these other AWS tools, WAF provides real-time traffic control, rules that can be customized according to the needs of the user, and is based on an implementation in the cloud which avoids the use of memory on computers as well as an account with a very affordable cost …
    Incentivized
    Chose AWS WAF
    The use of this software was decided on because it is much easier to manage since the rules that are implemented can be specific or centralized. We also like it because you only pay for what you used.

    Imperva SecureSphere requires a much higher learning curve.
    Incentivized
    Chose AWS WAF
    We evaluated Imperva, but we were more convinced with AWS WAF because of the better pricing model, ease of deployment as we were already using the AWS platform which helping in ease of integration. The technical support for AWS WAF seemed to be better as they had better …
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    Happy with the feature set
    83%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    AWS WAF
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Akamai App & API Protector
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AWS WAF
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AWS WAF
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    Well Suited: 1. To prevent DDOS attacks: AWS WAF has a lot of managed rules to prevent DDOS attacks based on traffic origination from a particular IP or IP reputation etc. 2. To rate-limit requests: Well it sounds familiar like preventing DDOS attacks, but it can also be used to rate-limit requests originating from the same IP address. We have used this feature so that we can test multiple failure scenarios for our application. 3. To prevent Data crawling: The BOT control feature allows us to prevent BOTs from crawling data on our websites. Not Suited: 1. To integrate applications outside of AWS Cloud: As I mentioned in my previous comments, this type of integration requires a custom implementation of another AWS resource.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Protect any application against the most common attacks.
    • Provides better visibility of web traffic.
    • It allows us to control the traffic in different ways in which it is enabled or blocked through the implementation of security rules developed personally according to our needs.
    • It is able to block common attacks such as SQL code injection.
    • It allows defining specific rules for applications, thus increasing web security as they are developed.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • AWS WAF is a bit costly if used for single applications.
    • they should provide attack-wise protection, like if my certain type of application is vulnerable to DDOS then I should be able to buy WAF, especially for that attack.
    • CLI tool to test in offline mode if possible.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    We have been using AWS WAF for the past 3 years in front of our websites. We find it useful in preventing data crawling, DDOS attacks, etc on our websites, and hence we are going to use it in the future as well. AWS WAF is one of the best Firewalls in business.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    The product is highly scalable. It is easy to configure the rules and thereby helps us to mitigate many vulnerabilities. The interface and programming of the firewall provisions were easy to setup. Amazon clearly spent a lot of time figuring this out and perfecting it. It allows users to do customized configurations based on their needs. It provides protection against a number of security issues like XSS, SQL injection, etc. I would definitely recommend this for protecting your infra as you scale, since this basically protects and filters all requests hitting your application server.
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    If you're intending to use AWS WAF, I would say that you absolutely should sign up for support. AWS Support is excellent and they can help you in a really good way to solve your issues.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    Easy of use. Setup and configuration is fairly quick. There are the usual advantages of it being a cloud solution where you can buy into the solution, configure it and set it up and get it up and running. If you are already a subscriber to AWS, having a native service has its advantages.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Implementing this AWS service has been really favorable because when creating custom rules we give more specific protection to our applications against vulnerabilities that cause them to be consuming other resources or running with errors.
    • It allows us to control the traffic of our business applications, which is really favorable, given that in this way we can decide that you can access them and not.
    • It is extremely advantageous that we can establish rules in a centralized way since it saves time, as well as it allows us to protect several applications at the same time by reusing the rules established above.
    • It allows you to save time and money because we only pay for what is used.
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