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 has built-in DDoS protection, which protects against DDoS attacks."
"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 product is very well interconnected with other Amazon services."
"We can personalize a lot of things inside CDN."
"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to deliver content to users nearby."
"If you're using AWS entirely, it's smooth sailing."
"The product provides reduced latency and quicker site refreshes."
"Incapsula takes care of the CDN infrastructure and bandwidth volume, providing several enterprise "load balancing" features."
"On the activity log, I can see the exact details, the visit, and the threat."
"Imperva DDoS is fairly stable, and its availability is quite high."
"There are quite a few useful Imperva Incapsula features. For example, one of them is the reports. The graphics are very good and it's easy to configure. The whole process is very fast and reliable too. They have good tech support as well."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is easy to configure."
"On the real time, you can see live traffic, which is flowing into our website."
"Scalability is pretty easy on the base platform. You just add another, and you're ready to go."
"Imperva Incapsula has many valuable features. One, it protects the top 10 OWAS vulnerability, the open web application software platform, this is standard. Secondly, it protects against broken authentication. As well, it has remote execution of code."
"The solution can benefit from expanding its data center and server locations to multiple places for smoother content delivery with even lower latency. The latency we experience is sufficient for our needs, and we are doing well. However, if they expand their locations in the future, it could be a positive factor. Its competitors have multiple data and server locations."
"Sometimes, the server goes down automatically."
"They could be expanding the number of locations available. It will help users easily access content."
"During the setup phase, there were some hiccups in terms of security, the user role, and the permissions."
"The support must be improved."
"There is room for improvement in customer service and support."
"Support needs to be enhanced."
"A lot of caching features must be added to the solution."
"Incapsula services also provides load balancing services for their service IP address environment. So far, with monitoring their services, the IP address was only changed once."
"Imperva DDoS does not provide version control."
"I am not sure if this application has a policy where you can create your custom policy and run it as our firewall. We should have some ability to also create some custom policy, then run it as a firewall."
"The salespeople tend to exaggerate its capabilities, which can cost you money if you don't verify the information."
"It would be beneficial to include vulnerability management in the solution, similar to what they have for their on-premise solution."
"We had an issue when securing the web applications for DDoS protection."
"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."
"I would like to see automated reporting to improve visibility."
Amazon CloudFront is ranked 4th in CDN with 21 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 5th in CDN with 74 reviews. Amazon CloudFront is rated 8.0, 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 Global CDN, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and Akamai App and API Protector. See our Amazon CloudFront vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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