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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.

88 Likeliness to Recommend

92 Plan to Renew

83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Product Experience:
100%
Negotiation and Contract:
91%
Conflict Resolution:
97%
Strategy & Innovation:
100%
Service Experience:
100%

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.

+98 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
8% Neutral
92% Positive

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 80

DLP Functionality

86

Layer 7 DDoS Support

85

Analytics and Reporting

84

Bot Protection

83

Application Firewall

83

Base ADC Features

79

On-Premise Offering

79

Custom Rules

75

End User Self Serve

75

API Security

73

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Quality of Features

88

Ease of Customization

87

Availability and Quality of Training

85

Ease of Implementation

83

Ease of Data Integration

83

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

83

Breadth of Features

83

Ease of IT Administration

79

Usability and Intuitiveness

79

Business Value Created

77

Vendor Support

75

AWS Web Application Firewall Reviews

DHARRSAN A.

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

Submitted Nov 2024

Easy security integration, Could be little pricey

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates AWS Web Application Firewall from other similar products?

AWS WAF offers customizable security rules and real-time metrics, Apigee excels in extensive analytics, usage monitoring, and managing API traffic with features like rate limiting and OAuth. Additionally, AWS WAF uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model, whereas Apigee typically follows a subscription-based model.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

One of the standout aspects of AWS WAF is its seamless integration with other AWS services. This integration allows users to easily deploy security measures across their applications hosted on AWS, such as automatically applying security rules to Amazon CloudFront or API Gateway

What do you dislike most about this product?

users may find it challenging to balance security and performance, as overly strict rules can inadvertently block legitimate traffic or degrade application performance

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

the pricing model, while pay-as-you-go, can lead to unpredictable costs if traffic spikes or if many custom rules are created, making budgeting for security expenses difficult.

Pros

  • Enables Productivity
  • Saves Time
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Cons

  • Vendor Friendly Policies
  • Role: Public Sector
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2024

Effective protection, but lacks advanced customize

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Sahil Y.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Finance
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2024

Extremely useful for security practices

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates AWS Web Application Firewall from other similar products?

Implementation is easier along with easier to tackle the security threats in cloud infrastructure

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Helps with attacks like sql injection , cross - site scripting and easier integration with APIs

What do you dislike most about this product?

Extremely expensive with respect to its other counter parts . Requires manual intervention to detect false positives

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

A bit expensive products works extremely well for threat protection and attacks like sql injection

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing