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AWS Web Application Firewall

Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10
Category
AWS Web Application Firewall
8.0 /10

What is AWS Web Application Firewall?

AWS WAF helps you protect against common web exploits and bots that can affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect web applications from attacks by allowing you to configure rules that allow, block, or monitor (count) web requests based on conditions that you define. These conditions include IP addresses, HTTP headers, HTTP body, URI strings, SQL injection and cross-site scripting.

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AWS Web Application Firewall Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

87 Likeliness to Recommend

94 Plan to Renew

83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product Experience:
94%
Negotiation and Contract:
88%
Conflict Resolution:
95%
Strategy & Innovation:
98%
Service Experience:
98%

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+95 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love AWS Web Application Firewall?

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0% Negative
4% Neutral
96% Positive

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Trustworthy
  • Efficient Service

Feature Ratings

Average 81

Risk Analytics

85

API Security Testing

83

OWASP Top 10

83

API Traffic Analysis

82

Dynamic Application Policy Generation

79

API Protection Against Automated Threats

79

Reporting and Analytics

78

Data Leakage Prevention

77

Risk Mitigation

76

Schema Enforcement

75

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Ease of Implementation

89

Quality of Features

88

Breadth of Features

84

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

82

Availability and Quality of Training

81

Business Value Created

81

Ease of Customization

81

Ease of IT Administration

80

Usability and Intuitiveness

80

Ease of Data Integration

78

Vendor Support

76

AWS Web Application Firewall Reviews

Uvieghara E E.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2025

AWS WAF: A Strong Foundation

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates AWS Web Application Firewall from other similar products?

Seamless AWS Integration Scalability and Flexibility

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect of AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) is its seamless integration with the broader AWS ecosystem

What do you dislike most about this product?

The aspect I dislike most about AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) is the complexity of rule management for users who are not already familiar with AWS or web application security. While the service offers a lot of flexibility and customization, it can be overwhelming for new users or smaller teams without deep expertise in web security

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Take time to explore the AWS ecosystem and ensure you understand how WAF fits into your architecture. Start by using these managed rule groups and then progressively customize and refine rules as you gain more experience with the platform.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Efficient Service

Carlos Orlando C.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Finance
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2024

Peace of mind and standards

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates AWS Web Application Firewall from other similar products?

The integration with the AWS suite of services, how easy is to implement standards and good practices

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Integration with AWS services

What do you dislike most about this product?

It needs a easy way to export and import all your settings

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Goes perfect with AWS!

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

Kiran G.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2024

Fantastic service from AWS

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates AWS Web Application Firewall from other similar products?

Amazon Web Services provides in-built firewall to the customer is known as AWS Web Application Firewall.(AWS WAF). Unlike other similar products, AWS WAF provides many default Firewall rules which explicitly blocks the malicious traffic from entering into VPC, no need to configure complex rules.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favourite aspect of AWS WAF is the numbers of default firewall rules. They are providing the extra layer of protection, with Web Access Control lists, which are many by default. It's pricing is also fair. Also, decreases the overhead of managing a external firewall such as Palo Alto..

What do you dislike most about this product?

WAF cannot be used for our onprem legacy apps. Also the training available is not very good.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If your applications are hosted in AWS Cloud, please go for it.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity