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AWS WAF vs. Oracle Dyn Web Application Security Platform

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Oracle Dyn WAF

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AOracle Dyn Web Application Security Platform extends beyond just typical Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities to offer Access Control, Bot Management, application DDoS protection and API security.N/A
    Pricing
    AWS WAFOracle Dyn 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 WAFOracle Dyn WAF
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Chose Oracle Dyn WAF
    At the time we chose Zenedge, Dyn WAF was the clear leader. AWS WAF is almost 100% manual with no preset rules. Akamai and CloudFlare both excelled in CDN and Anti-DDoS services, but not in WAF services. Since that time, however, several competitors have appeared as well as …
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    Enterprises
    Akamai App & API Protector
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AWS WAFOracle Dyn WAF
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Configurability
    -
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    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AWS WAFOracle Dyn 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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    Oracle
    Their technical team is great, their portal is easily the best of those I have reviewed it against (including Akamai, CloudFlare, and Imperva), and they are a dedicated technology partner through and through.
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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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    Oracle
    • Pre-populated rulesets - This allows engineers to quickly spin up new WAF instances without the need to configure extensive rulesets.
    • Detailed audit logs - Logs show detailed information about traffic hitting the WAF as well as information the rules allowing or blocking the traffic.
    • Change Management - Changes can be staged and applied when necessary, without interfering with current traffic.
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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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    Oracle
    • The purchase of Oracle Dyn into Oracle Dyn continues to develop the company, and while the process maturity is wonderful, it is worth mentioning.
    • Many businesses were affected when their Express option was yanked from production too rapidly, resulting in significant costs and delays.
    • Full 360-degree traffic and data visibility with ADC analytics integration.
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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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    Oracle
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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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    Oracle
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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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    Oracle
    After several years involved with the issue of cyber security and having been very close with distributed denial of service attacks, having used several companies to protect our applications, I decided to opt for Oracle Dyn Web Application Security Platform. Definitely, Oracle Dyn gives my organization the protection we need for our critical applications, far away from the other companies that offer similar services.
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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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    Oracle
    • Has a user-friendly interface that is both informative and intuitive.
    • The client's websites are monitored round-the-clock by a staff that provides quick response in the event of any difficulties.
    • Deploying it is a breeze.
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