We performed a comparison between Akamai App and API Protector and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), F5, Microsoft and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."The solution easily identifies, delays, or allows business traffic."
"I can attest to its benefits in terms of understanding and mitigating threats...The solution's technical support team seems to be pretty responsive."
"Adaptive stream delivery and WAF protection are valuable."
"Akamai Web Application Protector is a good solution that provides basic web application protection."
"Traffic filtering and WAF are valuable."
"Everything will be handled by Akamai's system before it reaches our infrastructure."
"The features are powerful and better than F5."
"The product has a good user interface."
"The tech support we got from F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager directly was pretty good."
"The most valuable feature is customization."
"The detail that you have available when setting up iRules."
"The BIG-IP’s interface is more intuitive than other GUIs. It is well structured, not overloaded, and does not have too many gimmicks."
"I like that F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is a product that comes with valuable features, but what stands out from all features is load balancing."
"It is very intuitive, easy to deploy, and manage."
"We always use technical support and the team helps us very well. They're able to effectively find and fix issues and they respond very quickly."
"The most valuable feature is the proxy."
"We are experimenting with EdgeWorkers to write our own code at the Edge level. It could grow to be much better."
"The performance of the cloud monitoring tool is low."
"The product should provide a secure NTP."
"Customer support has room for improvement."
"The WAF features definitely have a lot of room for improvement. A lot of the WAF is really basic. For some products or some of our solutions, we need to run a second layer of more advanced WAF. If it had better layer seven protection then we would not need a second WAF."
"Support and the pricing need to improve."
"One thing I asked them is to integrate the API discovery product that they have and push that data into Akamai App and API Protector so that we do not have two types of reviews to identify the type of traffic. We already know the APIs that are frequently getting used, so analysis becomes easier. We can integrate both products and use them."
"The custom rules must be improved."
"The analytics should provide insight into latency across various traffic routes and virtual servers."
"The logging features are too limited and do not give us a solid understanding of what's happening."
"They could improve the product's ease of use. There is some confusion how to operate it."
"There are issues with F5 BIG-IP but they are minor issues not affecting production and services. Sometimes the operations and the facility systems fail. However, there is an alert action from the windows. An ordeal for the manager."
"LTM's cloud capabilities could be improved. Cloud providers all offer load balancing, but you can't get the same level of security. F5's cloud service is still not on par with its on-prem service."
"For a future release, I would like to see more features in the cloud."
"My only point of contention would be that it is a little pricey."
"BIG-IP LTM is taking a long time to mature in cloud environments. They plan to improve cloud integration in the next version, but it isn't out yet. It's essential because more companies are moving to the cloud these days and using things like Kubernetes or microservices. F5 needs to improve in that direction, and they are."
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Akamai App and API Protector is ranked 8th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 27 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews. Akamai App and API Protector is rated 8.4, while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Akamai App and API Protector writes "Easy to learn and gives us a report of traffic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Reduces maintenance downtime and has a strong user community". Akamai App and API Protector is most compared with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Prolexic and AWS Shield, whereas F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and A10 Networks Thunder ADC.
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