We performed a comparison between AWS Shield and F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) 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."I am impressed with the product's multiple features like security."
"The solution's ease of use is the most valuable feature."
"It is integrated with AWS. So, it gives you a good first step."
"We have integrated the tool with Active Directory. The most important feature is that it's transparent and doesn't degrade the performance of our solution. Additionally, it's easy to configure, which is crucial for us. It's easy to use and set up and stops attacks on our servers. We haven't encountered any attack problems because the solution stops them in real-time. AWS Shield specifically focuses on defending against denial-of-service attacks, making it a great solution for that type of threat."
"The product has a good mechanism to analyze trends and trigger events."
"F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager's most valuable feature is load balance. It is readily available and uncomplicated."
"The decryption is great."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that the blocking of IP's."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP AFM is all of my workers enjoy using it."
"It excels in preventing downtime and maintaining application performance, which is crucial for our clients' security and operational continuity."
"The product’s most valuable features are LTM and WAF."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP AFM is the iRules where I can customize the configuration."
"This product excells in every aspect from installation and the interface to providing superior network security."
"We end up having to pay extra for features that AWS adds that we don't need."
"The management of it is a bit hard. If you don't engineer it on the front side, it is hard to go back in and change it. It could be improved in terms of architecture requirements and then ongoing support requirements as a secondary component to it. People tend to set up things like this, and they just expect it to work without the care and feeding that needs to go back into it either from an application team or a network environment team."
"The product is expensive."
"The product should give users more flexibility to customize their security policies according to their requirements."
"The product needs to improve its logs and reports to make it read better."
"There is room for improvement in Advanced Firewall Manager's dashboard statistics, especially during attacks."
"Currently, we have eighty F5s and we need some kind of management software. It would be very helpful."
"The product is expensive."
"We would have preferred to have support when we first started"
"The initial setup of F5 BIG-IP AFM in a complex environment was simple. However, the full deployment took us approximately one year."
"Firstly, geolocation currently relies on manual updates. It has to move to automatic updates. There are no automatic updates for this feature. If some IPs, countries, or service providers move to another country, now you will be allow IPs that you previously denied. This is because you depend on the database, which doesn't update automatically. This is really a very important area that they need to improve."
"The web gateway feature could improve in F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)."
"For configuring the firewall, every single vendor on the planet has pretty much the same logic when it comes to firewalls, and F5 has a completely different approach and completely different behavior."
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AWS Shield is ranked 6th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 5 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is ranked 8th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 21 reviews. AWS Shield is rated 8.6, while F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of AWS Shield writes "The solution automatically scales according to traffic, only takes minutes to deploy, and is maintenance-free". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) writes "Straightforward setup with very good granularity and performance". AWS Shield is most compared with Cloudflare, Cloudflare DDoS, Azure DDoS Protection and Akamai App and API Protector, whereas F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with Arbor DDoS and Radware DefensePro. See our AWS Shield vs. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) report.
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