We performed a comparison between AWS WAF and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager LTM based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: AWS WAF's pricing is more affordable, but users find that technical support for F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager LTM is better, and mention a positive ROI.
"The solution is stable."
"The ability to take multiple data sets and match those data sets together is the solution's most valuable feature. The data lake that comes with it is very useful because that allows us to match data sets with different configurations that we wouldn't normally be able to match."
"This is not a product that you need to install. You just use it."
"We can host any DB or application on the solution."
"It is a one-click WAF with no effort needed."
"The most valuable features are the geo-restriction denials and the web ACL."
"One common use case is using detection protection for enhancing security models in AWS. Another use case is implementing log analysis and response recovery procedures for email services."
"AWS has flexibility in terms of WAF rules."
"We like the capability to combine the content switching with the intrusion prevention and adding the security roles, so we can expose certain sub-pieces outside without exposing everything."
"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."
"Initial setup was straightforward. We were up and running in three hours."
"It has helped a lot to protect our organization from external attacks, especially XSS or XSRF types of attacks."
"Where we are finding the AWS version helpful is when we are trying to scale up new environments. AWS Marketplace helps here a lot."
"I was able to simply and quickly set up the WAF rules and security, and also set up easily complex policies and rules which gave me some great features to redirect."
"Initial setup is easy and pretty standard."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP LTM is it helps our delivery team to make policies and rules for application."
"I would like to be able to view a graphical deployment map in the user interface that will give me an overview of the configuration and help to determine whether I have missed any steps."
"The solution's pricing could be improved."
"The solution could be more reliable."
"Technical support for AWS WAF needs improvement."
"The setup is complicated."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"We should be able to do proper whitelisting."
"They should work to define more threats, add more security, and make it more compliant with more security companies."
"The pricing model has caused some frustration. My clients implemented the solution and later wanted to upgrade the features but the pricing structure was complicated. There are other solutions with better pricing models."
"The license terms for "non-commercial" will are challenging for us."
"The pricing could always be better. It's a bit expensive."
"I used GitHub for autoscaling CloudFormation, and I found two bugs and I submitted them. Their implementation in GitHub could be cleaner and allow for a bit more customization."
"The deployment can take some time because you can do a lot of configuring to meet the needs of the use cases for clients."
"If one virtual portion is unavailable, it can cause issues."
"The logging features are too limited and do not give us a solid understanding of what's happening."
"A more intuitive interface would be helpful."
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AWS WAF is ranked 1st in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 52 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews. AWS WAF is rated 8.0, while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2. 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 F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Helps deliver applications to users in a reliable, secure, and optimized way". AWS WAF is most compared with Azure Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, F5 Advanced WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Fortinet FortiWeb, 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. See our AWS WAF vs. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) report.
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