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 has a lot of integrated features and services. For example, there are security services that can be integrated very well for our customers."
"This is not a product that you need to install. You just use it."
"The most valuable features are the geo-restriction denials and the web ACL."
"The most valuable feature of AWS WAF is its highly configurable rules system."
"The most valuable feature is the way it blocks threats to external applications."
"The initial setup was very straightforward. Deployment took about ten minutes or less."
"AWS WAF is something that someone from a cloud background or cloud security background leverages. If they want to natively use a solution in the cloud, AWS WAF comes in handy. It's very useful for that, and the way we can fine-tune the WAF rules is also nice."
"What I like best about AWS WAF is that it's a simple tool, so I could understand the basics of AWS WAF in two to three hours."
"It's a good front end for public infrastructure"
"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."
"Most vendors fulfill the requirements for standard DDoS protection, but F5 Silverline Managed Services has a better understanding of defending web applications like HTTP and can mitigate more bot activity than any other vendor."
"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 most valuable feature is flexibility."
"The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is it becomes similar to a distributed architecture."
"The product’s UI is easy to understand."
"The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is its cloud-native functionality and the high level of protection it provides."
"The pricing model is complicated."
"In a future release of this solution, I would like to see additional management features to make things simpler."
"We haven't faced any problems with the solution."
"The product should improve the DDoS-related features."
"I would like to be able to view a graphical deployment map in the user interface that will give me an overview of the configuration and help to determine whether I have missed any steps."
"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."
"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 area of reporting in the product needs to have a proper format."
"The navigation is difficult to use."
"We'd like more AI to be used. Right now, they don't use it enough."
"The product could be improved on the global load and the integration with the other solution like Cisco and Dell. As a representor of the operation, we prefer to have one platform which can accommodate all type of integration. We are also looking for more improvements in the security policy configuration."
"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."
"In terms of the scalability, this part is always so confusing because they are checking for packet count. Also, after an attack, they said that the throughput must be from gigabits but then I check my bandwidth and it is already done in gigabits. So it is a little bit confusing."
"There is room for improvement in the stability of the solution."
"You need to have Linux knowledge in order to use the shell."
"The price is high in comparison to other products."
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AWS WAF is ranked 1st in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 52 reviews while F5 Silverline Managed Services is ranked 19th 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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