We performed a comparison between AWS WAF and Fastly 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."Its best feature is that it is on the cloud and does not require local hardware resources."
"The interface is good."
"We can host any DB or application on the solution."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"This product supplies options for web security for applications accessing sensitive information."
"AWS WAF is very easy to use and configure on AWS."
"The product’s availability, ease of configuration, and documentation are valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the capability to limit access based on geographical location by restricting specific IP addresses."
"Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute."
"Support is good; the product works as advertised. We have a Slack connection with them. So we can basically ask for help, live, engage, and ring when they respond. Very quickly."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
"Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks."
"The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly."
"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."
"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."
"We should be able to do proper whitelisting."
"The product should improve the DDoS-related features."
"They should make the implementation process faster."
"The cost management has room for improvement."
"We haven't faced any problems with the solution."
"In a future release of this solution, I would like to see additional management features to make things simpler."
"Stronger analytics would be helpful, like showing configurations that haven't served a certain amount of traffic in a while. With many properties, things can get lost track of - duplicates or unused configurations not properly decommissioned."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement."
"Support is not that great."
"It is missing a "staging" platform to deploy a test configuration with all of the real settings, which would allow us to properly test before putting it into production."
"The product should provide improved bot detection and management."
AWS WAF is ranked 1st in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 52 reviews while Fastly is ranked 17th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 6 reviews. AWS WAF is rated 8.0, while Fastly is rated 8.6. 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 Fastly writes "An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support". AWS WAF is most compared with Azure Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, F5 Advanced WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Imperva DDoS, whereas Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Amazon CloudFront, F5 Advanced WAF and Imperva DDoS. See our AWS WAF vs. Fastly report.
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