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 most valuable feature is the number of servers they can put your content in while being reliable."
"The image loading process is easy and cost-effective too."
"Amazon CloudFront is a stable solution."
"The AWS environment was very helpful in terms of integration."
"It is stable."
"The solution has many features that are comprehensive."
"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to deliver content to users nearby."
"It has built-in DDoS protection, which protects against DDoS attacks."
"We have peace of mind that nobody will use malware on us or try to hack our website."
"Integration with IBM AS/400 and Db2 is okay."
"Scalability is pretty easy on the base platform. You just add another, and you're ready to go."
"On the site security, I can see which countries have incidents, whether it was a robot attack, a real human user, or non-human user."
"Technical support was very helpful."
"Real-time monitoring is also a great tool, as you may watch several parameters in real time."
"On the activity log, I can see the exact details, the visit, and the threat."
"They're quite easy to install and quite easy to set up. Clients really like that. Especially when you're dealing with the cloud, it's really easy."
"The product could support any network load balancer. At present, we can use only Amazon’s load balancer application."
"A lot of caching features must be added to the solution."
"During the setup phase, there were some hiccups in terms of security, the user role, and the permissions."
"Amazon CloudFront's setup is a bit difficult, and we would love it if they made it easier."
"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."
"They could be expanding the number of locations available. It will help users easily access content."
"With a mixed stack, things become a problem. With GCP and Azure, the DNS setup gets tricky when using CloudFront."
"Improvements are needed as per customer requirements."
"The product could use a broader scope in the area of policies."
"The solution needs to improve Integration with third parties for their on-prem deployment models. The integration is not that good yet."
"We had an issue when securing the web applications for DDoS protection."
"I miss being able to integrate the dashboard with other BI tools we are using. We have to export and import data to be able to present it, and doing so is a lot of work."
"Imperva always needs to adjust to new versions of cyber attacks, it needs to be faster, improve the resiliency of the software of the solution."
"We would like them to hire people in Sweden because it's quite hard when people are sitting in the UK or Belgium because some of the customers really want them to be local."
"It needs to be improved every time there are new attacks."
"Imperva should have more points of presence in Africa."
Amazon CloudFront is ranked 4th in CDN with 22 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 6th in CDN with 74 reviews. Amazon CloudFront is rated 8.2, 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, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and AWS Shield. See our Amazon CloudFront vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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