

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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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
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.
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- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
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AWS Web Application Firewall Reviews
Laxman T.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Banking
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Apr 2023
Awesome tool for application security
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Web Application Firewall from other similar products?
It provides application security .no external apis can access the api, until we create a rule to unblock it
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Security, application security provides security to application from external api
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing much ,it is awesome tool from amazon
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Great tool in AWS ,provide application security from external api until you unblock It
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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Bruno L.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2023
Easy to use,
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Web Application Firewall from other similar products?
There is not great difference.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The AWS Support is great
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing to add
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Nothing to add
Pros
- Fair
- Altruistic
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Cons
- Less Productive
- Commodity Features
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SHAHRUKH K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jan 2023
This was safe and secure and very competitive.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Web Application Firewall from other similar products?
AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) is a service that allows you to protect your web applications from common web exploits that could affect application availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. Some of the key features that differentiate AWS WAF from other similar products include: Integration with other AWS services: AWS WAF can be easily integrated with other AWS services such as Amazon CloudFront, Amazon API Gateway, and Application Load Balancers, making it easy to protect your web applications from the edge.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Cloud-based: AWS WAF is a cloud-based service, which means that you don't need to worry about managing hardware or software, and can easily scale your WAF protection as your needs change. Additionally, AWS WAF also integrates with other AWS services such as Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Shield, which provide additional security and monitoring capabilities.
What do you dislike most about this product?
ome latency to web requests. This is because all requests must be processed by the WAF service before they reach the web application, which can cause some delay. Another potential disadvantage is that it can be difficult to configure and manage the WAF rules, especially for users who are not familiar with web application security. In order to effectively use the service, users may need to have a good understanding of common web exploits and how to configure rules to detect and prevent them
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you are considering using AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) to protect your web applications, here are some recommendations to keep in mind: Understand your security needs: Before using the service, it is important to understand your specific security needs and how they align with the capabilities of the WAF service. Understand what type of attacks you want to protect your web application from and how WAF can help you do that.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
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