We performed a comparison between AWS WAF vs. Imperva Web Application Firewall based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: AWS WAF and Imperva Web Application Firewall come out about equal in this comparison. AWS WAF has a slight edge when it comes to pricing, but Imperva Web Application Firewall has a slight edge when it comes to support.
"Rule groups are valuable."
"The product’s availability, ease of configuration, and documentation are valuable."
"AWS WAF is a stable solution. The performance of the solution is very good."
"The access instruction feature is the most valuable. This is what we use the most."
"What I like best about AWS WAF is that it's a simple tool, so I could understand the basics of AWS WAF in two to three hours."
"The most valuable feature of AWS WAF is the extra layer of security that I have when connecting to my web applications."
"The stability of AWS WAF is valuable."
"AWS WAF is very easy to use and configure on AWS."
"The solution is very scalable. It is one of the most important features. You can also expand resources and features as well."
"It has fewer false positives"
"Imperva is easy to use and deploy. The UI is excellent."
"The solution is cloud-based and offers us good uptime. It has combined web and API security. Therefore, with one license, you access both application security and also API security."
"The tool's profiling feature maps all the web application directories and related components on the profile directory. It has improved the security of my client's website applications."
"We can prevent attacks or issues even before they happen."
"The most valuable features of the Imperva Web Application Firewall are performance and flexibility. We can extend or customize the box itself."
"The most valuable feature of Imperva, in addition to its strong knowledge base, is its effective protection for web applications."
"The solution can improve its price."
"We should be able to do proper whitelisting."
"I would like to see the addition of more advanced rate-limiting features in the next release. It would be beneficial to extend rate limiting beyond just web servers to the main node level."
"AWS WAF should provide better protection to its users, and the security features need to improve."
"It would be good if the solution provided managed WAF services."
"When users choose the free service, there isn't great support available to them."
"It's a bit difficult to apply the right rules for the right security."
"In a future release of this solution, I would like to see additional management features to make things simpler."
"I would like to improve the tool's turnaround time in terms of support."
"The tool's UI is complicated. It would be best to have a more accessible UI dashboard to make the job easier."
"The process to upgrade from one version to another can be a lot simpler than it is currently."
"It is complicated to integrate the solution's on-cloud version with other platforms."
"One potential improvement for Imperva is enhancing its alert system."
"They recently separated the WAF and the DAM management gateways in order for each of these to be managed from different areas, so I believe it now requires additional investments for what was previously a single complete solution."
"The user interface could be better."
"I think that better bot protection is needed in this solution."
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AWS WAF is ranked 1st in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 52 reviews while Imperva Web Application Firewall is ranked 6th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 46 reviews. AWS WAF is rated 8.0, while Imperva Web Application Firewall 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 Imperva Web Application Firewall writes "Offers simulation for studying infrastructure and hybrid infrastructure protection". AWS WAF is most compared with Azure Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, F5 Advanced WAF, Cloudflare Web Application Firewall and Fortinet FortiWeb, whereas Imperva Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiWeb, Azure Front Door and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks. See our AWS WAF vs. Imperva Web Application Firewall report.
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