We performed a comparison between AWS WAF and F5 Silverline Managed Services 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."AWS WAF helps mitigate different kinds of bot attacks and SQL injection that happen within the retail industry."
"This is not a product that you need to install. You just use it."
"Their technical support has been quite good."
"The most valuable feature is the way it blocks threats to external applications."
"The access instruction feature is the most valuable. This is what we use the most."
"The most valuable feature of AWS WAF is the extra layer of security that I have when connecting to my web applications."
"It is a one-click WAF with no effort needed."
"AWS WAF is very easy to use and configure on AWS."
"The product’s UI is easy to understand."
"Its flexibility is the most valuable because it is a managed service. The good part is that you don't need to set it up. It just needs DNS routing, which is the easiest thing. Our client had Akamai for certain websites because they were using CDN features. They had NetScaler on the internal zone, F5 AWAFs on the data centers, and no WAF at all in the cloud. One of the main activities of the project was to move all these policies into a single WAF so that we could control and use that as a choke point. That exercise itself was very easy because it was a managed service and F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall does that for you. That's the best thing about F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall. It is easy to apply policies on-premises. If you have AWAF on-premises and you want to replicate some policies on F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall, other than the policies that it applies by itself, it is easy because you have a team that supports it. F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall works perfectly fine. It pretty much does everything that an Advanced WAF on-premises should do."
"The most valuable feature is flexibility."
"The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is it becomes similar to a distributed architecture."
"The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is the benchmark performance."
"We have a lot of businesses that we put behind this solution, and it has really helped us in terms of monitoring the logs and incidents."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"F5 technical support is really good."
"The solution could be more reliable."
"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."
"On the UI side, I would like it if they could bring back the geolocation view on the corner."
"The solution could improve by having better rules, they are very basic at the moment. There are more attacks coming and we have to use third-party solutions, such as FIA. The features are not sufficient to prevent all the attacks, such as DDoS. Overall the solution should be more secure."
"AWS WAF should provide better protection to its users, and the security features need to improve."
"The solution should identify why it blocks particular websites."
"They have to do more to improve, to innovate more features. They need to increase the security. It has to be more active in detecting threats."
"The product could be improved by expanding the weightage units of rules."
"The price is high in comparison to other products."
"We'd like more AI to be used. Right now, they don't use it enough."
"The navigation is difficult to use."
"There is room for improvement in the stability of the solution."
"There is a lot of room for improvement with their tech support. I am not sure F5 Silverline Managed Services can be classified as having tech support."
"F5 Silverline Managed Services can improve by reducing the price."
"F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall, being a new product in the market or comparatively related to a new product, currently supports less number of PoPs. They should introduce more PoPs. The current number of PoPs that they have is around 10 or 12, which is still relatively less as compared to 2,400 plus PoPs that Akamai offers. The user latency or the number of hops a user needs before reaching the actual web application is less in Akamai because it has its internal fabric to route the traffic. They need to spin up more data to increase its traffic handling capability. They can also include the bot detection capability, though it is a pretty advanced functionality. If they could include DataDome like functionality, that is, bot prediction, then F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall will be top-notch in the market."
"We need to have support for cloud protection, which is not offered by this solution."
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AWS WAF is ranked 1st in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 52 reviews while F5 Silverline Managed Services is ranked 20th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 14 reviews. AWS WAF is rated 8.0, while F5 Silverline Managed Services is rated 7.6. 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 F5 Silverline Managed Services writes "It is flexible and lets you easily apply policies, but it needs to support more PoPs". AWS WAF is most compared with Azure Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, F5 Advanced WAF and Imperva Web Application Firewall, whereas F5 Silverline Managed Services is most compared with Cloudflare, Arbor DDoS, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, F5 Advanced WAF and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM). See our AWS WAF vs. F5 Silverline Managed Services report.
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