We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudFront and Imperva DDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two CDN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution has many features that are comprehensive."
"It is stable."
"The AWS environment was very helpful in terms of integration."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the speed of delivery."
"The image loading process is easy and cost-effective too."
"The beneficial feature for the entire AWS community is the presence of edge location servers. These servers are strategically located in multiple locations, allowing efficient content delivery from the nearest server."
"The speed and usability of the solution are valuable."
"Feature-wise, I like the solution's signed URL because it provides security for me."
"Its unique interface for managing security performance and ease of use are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Setup was straightforward, very simple. I only entered the domain and Incapsula returned the DNS data that I needed to change for the protection to be configured."
"The most valuable features are DDoS protection."
"Imperva DDoS is fairly stable, and its availability is quite high."
"Real-time monitoring is also a great tool, as you may watch several parameters in real time."
"The technical support is excellent."
"The dashboard is good and user-friendly."
"On the site security, I can see which countries have incidents, whether it was a robot attack, a real human user, or non-human user."
"The solution could be more simplified for new users. It could be more user-friendly."
"I have utilized certain characteristics and invested effort in reading the documentation, which proved to be challenging."
"Amazon CloudFront's setup is a bit difficult, and we would love it if they made it easier."
"The tool must provide regional control."
"Amazon CloudFront is harder to understand compared to Azure."
"The user interface could be improved."
"During the setup phase, there were some hiccups in terms of security, the user role, and the permissions."
"The product could support any network load balancer. At present, we can use only Amazon’s load balancer application."
"Analytics in the area of risk need to be improved to supply more information to the users for creating better environments."
"The solution needs to improve Integration with third parties for their on-prem deployment models. The integration is not that good yet."
"We had an issue when securing the web applications for DDoS protection."
"The solution should integrate with something that looks at continuous security management."
"The weakest point of Imperva is their first level of support, which should be improved. They should also improve the access and security logs viewing directly on the portal. I would like to see better access and security logs through the portal and not only through a SIM solution. Currently, if you want to explore your access and security logs from Imperva, you need a SIM tool or a SIM infrastructure on your side to do it. You can't do it manually or directly through the portal, which is a big problem for us. I had a call yesterday with Imperva for the roadmap, and I just told them this. They agreed that this is an improvement point from their side."
"Users would benefit from better documentation. There is official documentation, but sometimes we need more detail. We have some use cases that are not so run of the mill. It would be great if there was a knowledge base that we could go to for more answers."
"It would be better if we were able to manage and apply changes to multiple websites/web applications, and search WAF logs for multiple websites, via the Incapsula dashboard."
"Imperva now offers add-ons to add functionality, but I would like to see these included in the product, even if it would cost more."
Amazon CloudFront is ranked 4th in CDN with 22 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 5th in CDN with 74 reviews. Amazon CloudFront is rated 8.2, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudFront writes "Top-notch in terms of customer service and offers pay-as-you-go model with a free tier". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva DDoS writes "I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions". Amazon CloudFront is most compared with Azure Front Door, Akamai, Cloudflare, Windows Azure CDN and Edgio, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and Fortinet FortiADC. See our Amazon CloudFront vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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