We performed a comparison between AWS WAF and Fortinet FortiWeb based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Fortinet FortiWeb is the winner in this comparison. According to reviews, it is a more comprehensive solution than AWS WAF. Reviewers are happier with the pricing of AWS WAF, however.
"The most valuable feature of AWS WAF is the extra layer of security that I have when connecting to my web applications."
"The most valuable feature is that it is very easy to configure. It just takes a couple of minutes."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to integrate central sets. It protects from intrusion attacks such as scripting and SQL injections."
"The customizable features are good."
"If hackers try to insert bugs, the tool blocks it."
"The web solution effectively protects from vulnerabilities and cyber attacks."
"It is Amazon. Everything is scalable. It is beyond what we need."
"The most valuable feature of AWS WAF is its highly configurable rules system."
"The most valuable feature in this solution is the ability to disseminate between the user entering some wrong value to the field, and a suspicious actor trying to exploit some known vulnerability."
"The most valuable feature is the web application firewall (WAF)."
"High-performance and detection engines, provide a high rate of exposure of web attacks."
"The GUI makes it easy to scale in terms of learning and utilization."
"Built-in security templates, AV integrated, strong threat intelligence."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the attack signature and machine learning."
"If I need something from tech support, I can get it answered within the hour."
"Technical support for AWS WAF needs improvement."
"The setup is complicated."
"An improvement area would be that it's more of a manual effort when you have to enable rules. That's one of the downsides. If that can be done in an automated way, it would be great. That's a lagging feature currently."
"The default content policy available in the tool is not very strong compared to the competitors."
"I would like to see it more tightly integrated with other AWS services."
"One area that could be improved is the DDoS protection."
"The product must provide more features."
"The user experience, the interface, is lacking. Sometimes it's hard to find certain areas that it has alerted on."
"Another area for improvement is logging. When troubleshooting, the logs sometimes take a while to update. We've had people report that some things aren't logged if they're successful. It's a bit hit-and-miss. For example, sometimes people access one of our services, and it's successful, but we don't see that in the logs."
"No solution is 100% secure and the security could always be worked on."
"It costs too much."
"FortiGate could be improved on the security end because we've had some incidents with the customer. Otherwise, there is no problem."
"The Layer 7 DDoS attacks need improvement, it could be better."
"The solution could offer more integration opportunities."
"In terms of performance, it needs to be more robust."
"The dashboard evaluating the performance of each application connected to the web app's firewall is quite helpful, but the tool is only available in application performance management. So I think if Fortinet could better integrate that particular feature, it would add a lot of value to the product."
AWS WAF is ranked 1st in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 52 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. AWS WAF is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. 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 Fortinet FortiWeb writes "Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments". AWS WAF is most compared with Azure Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, F5 Advanced WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, Azure Web Application Firewall, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. See our AWS WAF vs. Fortinet FortiWeb report.
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