We performed a comparison between Cloudflare and F5 Advanced WAF based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Centralized, full-featured DNS."
"New and innovative way to protect the client's data."
"Cloudflare has many features."
"Cloudflare is a security SaaS provider that provides security and protects us from any application layer attack."
"The DDoS protection is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The web application firewall brought us good security and a view of the accesses/blocks of the entire domain and subdomain that were accessed both by region (country) and IPs."
"The simplicity of the overall dashboard makes it a great product for a user like me who has less understanding of the internet than a developer or other more technical people. It gives me peace of mind. I also love the easy customization of the Page Rules."
"I like Cloudflare's application gateway and DDoS protection."
"It also has antivirus and DDoS mitigation capabilities. We have enabled these features."
"The solution uses AI to protect against botnet attacks."
"The valuable features vary from customers to customers. Some customers are okay with the basic features of the WAF, and some customers use advanced WAF with a few other features."
"The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the balancer and you can change policies very easily."
"The solution is easily accessible on mobile and laptop devices."
"We can monitor IP locations, but we have constraints from each country. It has a replication feature. Licenses can be shared, taking turns with each license."
"I definitely recommend this solution because of the time you save on analysis."
"Good dashboard and reporting."
"There should be a specific price list for enterprise-level customers."
"The product needs to improve its automation."
"There are some issues with the CDN services."
"Latencies are always a problem."
"Technical support is lacking."
"Cloudflare does not have an on-premise solution. If they had different approaches they could be better suited to accommodate more customers, such as on-premise and hybrid deployments. For example, hybrid deployments would be useful where you could move the traffic from the enterprise to the cloud."
"Even if I wanted to, I wouldn't be able to buy Cloudflare in my country."
"The solution could work at being less expensive. It costs a lot to use it."
"I would like for there to be a cloud-based solution, this would also help to improve scalability."
"The solution could improve by having an independent capture module. It has a built feature that you can deploy the capture on your published website. However, it's not very user-friendly. When you compare this feature to Google Capture or other enterprise captures, they are very simple. It needs a good connection to the F5 Advanced WAF sandbox. When you implement this feature in the data center, you may suffer some complications with connecting to the F5 Advanced WAF sandbox. This should be improved in the future."
"One thing that can be improved, is to increase the quantity over predefine policy."
"The administrator's user interface and some of the settings can sometimes be very complicated to understand."
"You have to buy another module with an extra license, to have the authentication feature."
"I think the deployment templates can be better."
"Nevertheless, F5 products are generally considered to be hard to deploy."
"We usually use a third-party tool for logging and reporting. It would be nice if we could do that right on this solution. They have one, but it's not very stable. Logging and reporting effectively would be a big enhancement."
Cloudflare is ranked 1st in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 56 reviews while F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 54 reviews. Cloudflare is rated 8.4, while F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cloudflare writes "It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and AWS Shield, whereas F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Fastly. See our Cloudflare vs. F5 Advanced WAF report.
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