We performed a comparison between AWS WAF and Radware Bot Manager 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)."Their technical support has been quite good."
"AWS WAF is a stable solution. The performance of the solution is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability because it automatically scales up or scales down as per our requirements."
"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 is very easy to use and configure on AWS."
"The customizable features are good."
"Its best feature is that it is on the cloud and does not require local hardware resources."
"Rule groups are valuable."
"The solution provides a rating of the sophistication of the bot attack."
"The most valuable feature is the bot management itself and the way it has stopped bots from scraping our site, with its AI mechanism. Its ability to detect and mitigate bots is really good."
"It's very good at categorizing the different types of bots, whether they're malicious or good. Bot is a very generic term. It could be good, it could be bad. Quite a lot of legitimate businesses are using bot-type services to just scrape the internet for information."
"Bot Manager is an excellent tool for analyzing traffic to detect suspicious patterns. It uses artificial intelligence to identify malicious behavior."
"Bot Manager's behavioral modeling and intelligence help us distinguish between harmless and malicious bots."
"I like how Bot Manager automatically detects when a suspicious user attempts to download content from your website."
"The solution's pricing could be improved."
"It would be good if the solution provided managed WAF services."
"It is sometimes a lot of work going through the rules and making sure you have everything covered for a use case. It is just the way rules are set and maintained in this solution. Some UI changes will probably be helpful. It is not easy to find the documentation of new features. Documentation not being updated is a common problem with all services, including this one. You have different versions of the console, and the options shown in the documentation are not there. For a new feature, there is probably an announcement about being released, but when it comes out, there is no actual documentation about how to use it. This makes you either go to technical support or community, which probably doesn't have an idea either. The documentation on the cloud should be the latest one. Finding information about a specific event can be a bit challenging. For this solution, not much documentation is available in the community. It could be because it is a new tool. Whenever there is an issue, it is just not that simple to resolve, especially if you don't have premium support. You have pretty much nowhere to look around, and you just need to poke around to try and make it work right."
"The product should improve the DDoS-related features."
"One area for improvement in AWS WAF could be the limitation on the number of rules, particularly those from third-party sources, within the free tier."
"It will be helpful if the product recommends rules that we can implement."
"The default content policy available in the tool is not very strong compared to the competitors."
"In a future release I would like to see automation. There's no interaction between the applications and that makes it tedious. We have to do the preparation all over again for each of our other applications."
"We're missing links to their modules for installation and configuration. They have most of them available already, but there were situations for mobile applications that, when they released a new version, were not stable. We had to ask them to send a link by email, and that could be made accessible in the portal."
"It would be good to have more integrations. It's very hard to get data in and out of their portal. It doesn't have any integrations with any of our tools, such as our SIEM tool. It only depends on emails. Having that tied into the warehouse, SIEM, and maybe our on-call tools would be very helpful because it would just give us a holistic picture of everything."
"Bot Manager is doing its job, but I think the behavioral modeling could be improved by adding fingerprinting and automation. Remediation should be automated so that it doesn't require any intervention by the user."
"I would like more ability to configure custom rules. Currently, I need to open a ticket with support to request a specific rule that isn't available in the console. In some cases, I don't have visibility into the logs or they are too complicated to analyze."
"Radware Bot Manager is a little costly but not too expensive. It's in the middle."
"It would be beneficial to have a link from the WAF to the Bot Manager portal available so we do not have to log in again."
AWS WAF is ranked 1st in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 52 reviews while Radware Bot Manager is ranked 3rd in Bot Management with 8 reviews. AWS WAF is rated 8.0, while Radware Bot Manager is rated 9.2. 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 Radware Bot Manager writes "Categorizes different types of bots very well and is very effective at detecting and mitigating bots in real time". 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 Radware Bot Manager is most compared with Fastly, F5 Shape Security, Cloudflare and Akamai Bot Manager.
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