We performed a comparison between AWS WAF and Fortinet FortiWeb based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Fortinet FortiWeb is the winner in this comparison. According to reviews, it is a more comprehensive solution than AWS WAF. Reviewers are happier with the pricing of AWS WAF, however.
"We do not have to maintain the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the capability to limit access based on geographical location by restricting specific IP addresses."
"Rule groups are valuable."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability because it automatically scales up or scales down as per our requirements."
"This product supplies options for web security for applications accessing sensitive information."
"We preferred the product based on its cost. AWS WAF is an out-of-the-box solution and integrates with the AWS services that we use. It's natively integrated with AWS."
"One common use case is using detection protection for enhancing security models in AWS. Another use case is implementing log analysis and response recovery procedures for email services."
"We find that it is quite stable and reliable."
"Fortinet is a great SD-WAN player when it comes to security capabilities."
"The most valuable features in Fortinet FortiWeb are sandboxing and threat prevention."
"The support services, performance, and pricing are all valuable features. The performance is excellent."
"The anti-defacement feature is very useful because it looks for web changes over time to protect pages."
"It is a stable product."
"High-performance and detection engines, provide a high rate of exposure of web attacks."
"It helps us prevent attacks on servers."
"The solution can improve its price."
"We don't have much control over blocking, because the WAF is managed by AWS."
"We have issues with reporting, troubleshooting, and analytics. AWS WAF needs to bring costs down."
"I believe there is a need to move towards real-time analysis with the help of AI and intelligent systems in the future. This would reduce the reliance on manual work and enhance the functionality of detection protection. By incorporating AI-driven data analysis and data science techniques, we can improve the solution's user-friendliness, security compatibility, and accuracy."
"The product could be improved by expanding the weightage units of rules."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"The serverless product from AWS WAF could be improved. For example, they have only one serverless series, Lambda, but they should extend and improve it. Additionally, the firewall rules are not very easy to configure."
"The product should improve the DDoS-related features."
"We would like to know more about the integration with the hardware or security products, such as Gemalto, because we need to move to that point."
"It costs too much."
"The F5 solution has more features than Fortinet FortiWeb, such as multiple load balancing."
"The integration with other products should be improved."
"We would like the interface to be easier to use and more user-friendly. The interface needs to be enhanced."
"It is not entirely user-friendly."
"HA Architecture needs improvement. I would improve it by working on AP HA."
"Fortinet FortiWeb is not scalable. You'll need more budget to change the hardware."
AWS WAF is ranked 1st in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 52 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. AWS WAF is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. 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 Fortinet FortiWeb writes "Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments". AWS WAF is most compared with Azure Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, F5 Advanced WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, Azure Web Application Firewall, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. See our AWS WAF vs. Fortinet FortiWeb report.
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