We performed a comparison between AWS WAF and Barracuda Web Application Firewall 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."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 can host any DB or application on the solution."
"The interface is good."
"The most valuable features are the geo-restriction denials and the web ACL."
"The agility is great for us in terms of cloud services in general."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability because it automatically scales up or scales down as per our requirements."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"This is not a product that you need to install. You just use it."
"Has a good dashboard."
"We use Barracuda to protect the application. That's the main feature we use it for."
"You don't need help from Barracuda to help with the deployment. The deployment is easy."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward, especially if you enlist assistance."
"The solution has been quite stable. It's reliable."
"The stability of the product is good. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It's very simple and predictable, because Barracuda provides a vision of the current state of your application. It gives you an understanding of what is happening on your site and any attempts against you at your source. This is the main value that Web Application Firewall provides our company. These aspects are also the main reason for this documentation process."
"The product has fantastic support services."
"While the complexity of the installation can vary from one service to another, overall, I would say that it and the configuration and navigation are somewhat complex."
"The solution should identify why it blocks particular websites."
"They should work to define more threats, add more security, and make it more compliant with more security companies."
"The technical support does not respond to bugs in the coding of the product."
"AWS WAF could improve by making the overall management easier. Many people that have started working with AWS WAF do not have an easy time. They should make it easy to use."
"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."
"We must monitor and clean up the WAF manually."
"We need more support as we go global."
"The incident reporting needs to be improved."
"I would like to see an improved capacity to store logs so that they will be available for a longer time."
"I think the main area for improvement in this product is learning it, as can be seen when comparing it to the F5 web application firewall. F5 has a very powerful learning phase when you start using your web application firewall against your site. Barracuda has something like this, but not with the same functionality from my point of view."
"The policy updates could be improved."
"There are some vulnerabilities that are reported across the tools offered by Barracuda for some devices, which need to be taken care of from an improvement perspective."
"They should improve their features, so they easily compare to the competition."
"The GUI needs to be improved because it sometimes hangs and needs to be restarted."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall’s scalability needs improvement."
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AWS WAF is ranked 1st in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 52 reviews while Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews. AWS WAF is rated 8.0, while Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2. 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 Barracuda Web Application Firewall writes "Provides strong issue discovery capabilities; enhance the security parameters of web applications and suitable for medium to large enterprises". AWS WAF is most compared with Azure Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, F5 Advanced WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Fortinet FortiWeb, whereas Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy and Imperva Web Application Firewall. See our AWS WAF vs. Barracuda Web Application Firewall report.
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