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 tool’s stability is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability because it automatically scales up or scales down as per our requirements."
"AWS WAF is very easy to use and configure on AWS."
"AWS WAF is a stable solution. The performance of the solution is very good."
"The initial setup was very straightforward. Deployment took about ten minutes or less."
"The simple configuration and the scalability have been most valuable. We are able to scale across all of our different AWS instances."
"As a basic WAF, it's better than nothing. So if you need something simple out of the box with default features, AWS WAF is good."
"AWS WAF has a lot of integrated features and services. For example, there are security services that can be integrated very well for our customers."
"It can scale well."
"FortiWeb is easy to operate with a reasonably high level of protection. FortiWeb provides multiple deployment options with a physical or virtual (FortiWeb-VM) appliance, and acts either as a reverse/transparent proxy or out-of-band. It is also available on AWS and Azure."
"FortiGate is a stable product."
"SSL Offloading simplifies the public certificate handling and brings additional protection features."
"Fortinet FortiWeb is priced well."
"It offers some feedback and suggestions that guide our system development while helping our vendors to update their applications and fix any issues or bugs."
"Other than the additional security with exploit protection, we have simpler certificate handling, as we can keep internal servers using internal certificates continuously distributed and updated by Active Directory Group Policy, while the public certificates become updated only in a single place, FortiWeb itself."
"We find that it is quite stable and reliable."
"The setup is complicated."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"The product could be improved by expanding the weightage units of rules."
"It would be good if the solution provided managed WAF services."
"In a future release of this solution, I would like to see additional management features to make things simpler."
"The product should improve the DDoS-related features."
"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."
"Technical support for AWS WAF needs improvement."
"Fortinet FortiWeb is not scalable. You'll need more budget to change the hardware."
"In terms of performance, it needs to be more robust."
"F5 and some other firewalls are easier to customize. FortiWeb could be more flexible and customizable. The documentation could also be improved because many of the advanced features aren't fully documented."
"FortiWeb does not exist in a cloud-based form. Its only available for deployment as a virtual appliance on AWS and Azure IaaS platforms. Because of the trend to WAF environments, it would be good to have it as a SaaS. Also, FortiWeb would be more competitive if it combined WAF and DDoS protection."
"It would also be helpful if they could introduce easier reporting. It's good to have those reports that go to C-level management, and Fortinet does provide some graphs, but if they went into some more detail, that would be great."
"The solution could offer more integration opportunities."
"Fortinet FortiWeb needs to improve the way it's configured. Common services like publishing exchange should be done in one click only."
"I would like to see more improvements with respect to threat intelligence."
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 Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, 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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