We performed a comparison between Akamai App and API Protector and AWS WAF based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Everything will be handled by Akamai's system before it reaches our infrastructure."
"The CDN and the WAF features are the best."
"Adaptive stream delivery and WAF protection are valuable."
"The solution can scale extremely well."
"The most valuable feature is the DDoS protection, which is the main reason we got it."
"We are getting security for each and every API."
"It enables us to move faster with new products because we have this layer of protection set up in our infrastructure."
"The product has a good user interface."
"This product supplies options for web security for applications accessing sensitive information."
"If hackers try to insert bugs, the tool blocks it."
"The product’s availability, ease of configuration, and documentation are valuable."
"The initial setup was very straightforward. Deployment took about ten minutes or less."
"The most valuable feature is the capability to limit access based on geographical location by restricting specific IP addresses."
"AWS WAF helps mitigate different kinds of bot attacks and SQL injection that happen within the retail industry."
"The simple configuration and the scalability have been most valuable. We are able to scale across all of our different AWS instances."
"The ease of deployment of the product is valuable to me."
"It's fine for a simple tool, but as I recall, if you encounter a lot of bots, scrapers, and other things, you'll need this tool bot and this other thing they offer called Bot Manager."
"A lot of piracy happens in India and other countries. If there is a product for protection from piracy, it would be great. For example, there are multiple hackers that hack your event, and there are some channels that pirate and publish the event on some other website. We protect our streaming through DRM and different technologies. We are also protecting the website, but hacking is still happening. If they can work on protecting from piracy, it would be great."
"We are experimenting with EdgeWorkers to write our own code at the Edge level. It could grow to be much better."
"Akamai App and API Protector is very new to me, so I do not have any insights on improvement areas for the product. However, when we ask for some help, it can take some time. We understand that the job is done by professionals, but if that time can be reduced, it would be great."
"The pricing could be reduced a bit."
"If we talk about application layer attacks, including WAF, CloudFlare is leading. Akamai can focus a bit more on the application layer attacks and how to protect them."
"Could integrate more features for each security."
"The solution could offer even more integrations."
"When users choose the free service, there isn't great support available to them."
"The cost must be reduced."
"The product must provide more features."
"For uniformity, AWS has a well-accepted framework. However, it'll be better for us if we could have some more documented guidelines on how the specific business should be structured and the roles that the cloud recommends."
"AWS WAF would be better if it uses AI or machine learning to detect a potential attack or a potential IP that creates an attack even before it happens. I want AWS WAF to capture the IP and automatically write the rule to automate the entire process."
"We don't have much control over blocking, because the WAF is managed by AWS."
"It's a bit difficult to apply the right rules for the right security."
"The solution is cloud-based, and therefore the billing model that comes with it could be more intuitive, in my opinion. It's very easy to not fully understand how you tag things for billing and then you can quite easily run up a high bill without realizing it. The solution needs to be more intuitive around the tagging system, which enables the billing. Right now, I have a cloud architect that does that on our behalf and it isn't something that a business user could use because it still requires quite a lot of technical knowledge to do effectively."
Akamai App and API Protector is ranked 8th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 27 reviews while AWS WAF is ranked 1st in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 52 reviews. Akamai App and API Protector is rated 8.4, while AWS WAF is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Akamai App and API Protector writes "Easy to learn and gives us a report of traffic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AWS WAF writes "A highly stable solution that helps mitigate different kinds of bot attacks and SQL injection attacks". Akamai App and API Protector is most compared with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Prolexic, AWS Shield and Arbor DDoS, whereas AWS WAF is most compared with Azure Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, F5 Advanced WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Cloudflare. See our AWS WAF vs. Akamai App and API Protector report.
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