We performed a comparison between AWS WAF and Fastly 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 of AWS WAF is the extra layer of security that I have when connecting to my web applications."
"The agility is great for us in terms of cloud services in general."
"Their technical support has been quite good."
"The product’s availability, ease of configuration, and documentation are valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the addition of managed tools that help us create customizable rules. In case we want to block a particular request, we can make use of those rules."
"The tool’s stability is very good."
"It's simple, easy to use."
"AWS WAF is a stable solution. The performance of the solution is very good."
"Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks."
"Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute."
"The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly."
"Support is good; the product works as advertised. We have a Slack connection with them. So we can basically ask for help, live, engage, and ring when they respond. Very quickly."
"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
"The solution should identify why it blocks particular websites."
"They have to do more to improve, to innovate more features. They need to increase the security. It has to be more active in detecting threats."
"They should work to define more threats, add more security, and make it more compliant with more security companies."
"We must monitor and clean up the WAF manually."
"In a future release of this solution, I would like to see additional management features to make things simpler."
"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."
"AWS WAF would be better if it uses AI or machine learning to detect a potential attack or a potential IP that creates an attack even before it happens. I want AWS WAF to capture the IP and automatically write the rule to automate the entire process."
"The cost management has room for improvement."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement."
"It is missing a "staging" platform to deploy a test configuration with all of the real settings, which would allow us to properly test before putting it into production."
"The product should provide improved bot detection and management."
"Support is not that great."
"Stronger analytics would be helpful, like showing configurations that haven't served a certain amount of traffic in a while. With many properties, things can get lost track of - duplicates or unused configurations not properly decommissioned."
AWS WAF is ranked 1st in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 52 reviews while Fastly is ranked 17th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 6 reviews. AWS WAF is rated 8.0, while Fastly is rated 8.6. 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 Fastly writes "An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support". AWS WAF is most compared with Azure Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, F5 Advanced WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Imperva DDoS, whereas Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Amazon CloudFront, F5 Advanced WAF and Imperva DDoS. See our AWS WAF vs. Fastly report.
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