We performed a comparison between AWS WAF and Cloudflare based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the scalability because it automatically scales up or scales down as per our requirements."
"The most valuable feature is the way it blocks threats to external applications."
"The customizable features are good."
"AWS WAF is very easy to use and configure on AWS."
"Their technical support has been quite good."
"It is Amazon. Everything is scalable. It is beyond what we need."
"The ease of deployment of the product is valuable to me."
"The most valuable feature is that it is very easy to configure. It just takes a couple of minutes."
"DDoS attacks target unprotected machines. Cloudflare detects and stops these attacks using internal systems. It identifies incoming DDoS attacks, issuing challenges or blocking them immediately."
"Cloudflare has many features."
"There are key things that are used for our enterprise customers, such as Lambda and DNS."
"The UI is good."
"Cloudflare offers CDN and DDoS protection. We have the front end, API, and database in how you structure applications."
"New and innovative way to protect the client's data."
"The web application firewall brought us good security and a view of the accesses/blocks of the entire domain and subdomain that were accessed both by region (country) and IPs."
"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare is the GUI. You are able to control the solution very well through the interface. There is a lot of functionality that is embedded in the service."
"The solution could improve by having better rules, they are very basic at the moment. There are more attacks coming and we have to use third-party solutions, such as FIA. The features are not sufficient to prevent all the attacks, such as DDoS. Overall the solution should be more secure."
"The solution's pricing could be improved."
"They should work to define more threats, add more security, and make it more compliant with more security companies."
"One area that could be improved is the DDoS protection."
"We don't have much control over blocking, because the WAF is managed by AWS."
"The solution is cloud-based, and therefore the billing model that comes with it could be more intuitive, in my opinion. It's very easy to not fully understand how you tag things for billing and then you can quite easily run up a high bill without realizing it. The solution needs to be more intuitive around the tagging system, which enables the billing. Right now, I have a cloud architect that does that on our behalf and it isn't something that a business user could use because it still requires quite a lot of technical knowledge to do effectively."
"While the complexity of the installation can vary from one service to another, overall, I would say that it and the configuration and navigation are somewhat complex."
"It would be good if the solution provided managed WAF services."
"The product support needs to be accessible from more places, a wider area of coverage."
"There are some issues with the CDN services."
"The solution could use more analytics on the backend to give us more insights into everything. More reports would be helpful."
"It should confirm audit findings of the assigned area with auditees to ensure that the audit conclusions are based on an accurate understanding of the issues."
"Even if I wanted to, I wouldn't be able to buy Cloudflare in my country."
"The solution could work at being less expensive. It costs a lot to use it."
"The product needs to improve its automation."
"The timing aspect can lead to it being considered overpriced. This is a particular concern we have with Cloudflare, as they may struggle with accurately detecting the client."
AWS WAF is ranked 1st in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 52 reviews while Cloudflare is ranked 1st in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 57 reviews. AWS WAF is rated 8.0, while Cloudflare is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of AWS WAF writes "A highly stable solution that helps mitigate different kinds of bot attacks and SQL injection attacks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cloudflare writes "It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes". AWS WAF is most compared with Azure Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, F5 Advanced WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and NGINX App Protect, whereas Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, AWS Shield and G-Core Labs CDN. See our AWS WAF vs. Cloudflare report.
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