AWS Shield vs Reblaze comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Reblaze - part of Link11 are both solutions in the Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.4, while Reblaze - part of Link11 is ranked #16 with an average rating of 8.5. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 7.0% mindshare in DDOS, compared to Reblaze - part of Link11’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Reblaze - part of Link11 users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 31, 2025

Reblaze and AWS Shield compete in cloud-based web application security. AWS Shield appears to have an edge with superior features like comprehensive DDoS protection integrated with AWS services, while Reblaze garners positive feedback for pricing and customer support, making it appealing for cost-conscious businesses.

Features: Reblaze is noted for real-time threat visibility, an adaptive security model, and advanced bot mitigation. AWS Shield offers robust DDoS protection, seamless integration with AWS infrastructures, and focuses on automated resource scaling and consistent performance. Reblaze is flexible and easy to customize, while AWS Shield excels in integration and scalability.

Room for Improvement: Reblaze could improve its seamless integration with other cloud environments and provide more comprehensive documentation. It might also benefit from enhancing automated resource scaling capabilities. AWS Shield could improve by offering more competitive pricing, expanding support for non-AWS infrastructures, and enhancing ease of use for cloud newcomers.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Reblaze offers straightforward deployment compatible with multiple clouds and delivers strong customer support with hands-on assistance and rapid response. AWS Shield benefits from integration within existing AWS environments, simplifying deployment for AWS users but potentially complicating it for new users. Reblaze is praised for personalized support, while AWS Shield leverages AWS's extensive resources and documentation.

Pricing and ROI: Reblaze is praised for its transparent pricing and cost-effectiveness, providing significant ROI through reduced security risks. AWS Shield, although potentially more costly, provides value with advanced features and deeper AWS integration, justifying its expense for enterprises heavily using AWS infrastructure. Reblaze attracts with competitive pricing, while AWS Shield offers premium features at a higher cost.

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Cloudflare

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection category, the mindshare of Cloudflare is 19.4%, up from 19.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of AWS Shield is 7.0%, down from 7.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Reblaze is 0.7%, down from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Spencer Malmad

Owner at Tech Exchange

It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes

Cloudflare is highly scalable. Cloudflare is a system with a web portal that the end users like me see. It's a console where we can adjust the DNS, caching, and security features all in that console. Cloudflare owns thousands of servers across the world that cache the data. It's a powerful solution. When clients sign up for Cloudflare, they're getting this monster content delivery network, security, and a web application firewall in one. It's all rolled into one, and it's massive. Unless you have your website hosted on a massive hosting provider, there's no way that you can deliver the amount of data that Cloudflare can provide to the end users. If you have static content, there's no way that you can ever match what Cloudflare can do. Obviously, there are competitors to Cloudflare that do the same, but I'm saying other types of solutions. Let's say you go with F5. Great, that's on-prem. That's in your colo. You can't deliver as much data to the internet as you can with a CDN. You don't have to spend $20,000 on a net scaler, F5, or whatever Cisco's selling now. You don't have to buy that. You pay them $50 a month or $150 a month. It's totally worth it because even in five years, you'll never get the performance value, not just the actual ROI. You have to consider how much throughput you can get with Cloudflare.

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Manikandan-R

Senior Project Manager at Synopsys Inc

Solution provides essential protection with good support and a simple setup

I have noticed a pattern developing in approximately five minutes. If it were possible to provide these patterns with historical data spanning six months, three months, or two months directly from the console, it would be extremely beneficial. It would allow for easy inquiries and facilitate the retrieval of relevant parts without having to manually check logs or examine movements. Instead, if all historical data were available, I could consult six months' worth of identified patterns efficiently through AWS without relying on external sources. This solution is particularly suitable for startups or medium-sized startups. I would rate the overall solution eight out of ten.

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YacovHabusha

Network and Security Department Manager at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

Allowed us to replace our reverse proxy, load-balancing, and WAF products with one platform

Perhaps the automatic reporting could be better. I would like to have seen more automated reports. Maybe it has been improved in the last year and I'm just not aware of it. But from a managerial point of view, you want a summary report, a weekly report: How many attacks were blocked? How much bandwidth was saved due to the caching mechanism? What were the top-ten attacks that were tested on the network, etc? I could most likely have found all that data if I logged in to the system and ran different reports. It would be very helpful to get a management report on a weekly basis.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare DNS is its global reach and it is always evolving."

"It is a fast and secure DNS."

"The technical support is good."

"Centralized, full-featured DNS."

"Cloudflare is a security SaaS provider that provides security and protects us from any application layer attack."

"From what I've seen so far, there are no negatives to report as of yet"

"There are key things that are used for our enterprise customers, such as Lambda and DNS."

"The most valuable feature is its usability."

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"The solution's ease of use is the most valuable feature."

"I am impressed with the product's multiple features like security."

"We have integrated the tool with Active Directory. The most important feature is that it's transparent and doesn't degrade the performance of our solution. Additionally, it's easy to configure, which is crucial for us. It's easy to use and set up and stops attacks on our servers. We haven't encountered any attack problems because the solution stops them in real-time. AWS Shield specifically focuses on defending against denial-of-service attacks, making it a great solution for that type of threat."

"It is quite scalable, and we have not faced any issues with its scalability."

"It is integrated with AWS. So, it gives you a good first step."

"The product has a good mechanism to analyze trends and trigger events."

"The product is easy to use."

"The solution operates smoothly at its baseline level, and we do not encounter any issues at that level."

"I very much like the elastic search and reports, allowing us to have a 360-degree view of the customer's activities and enabling us to track down any suspicious bots."

"Reblaze knows how to manage security. For me as, someone who knows little about security, it's good that I have a firm that optimizes everything according to their standards. It's their responsibility and they are fully hands-on."

"It is a highly resilient product that can handle significantly larger workloads and high volumes of traffic with ease."

"The real-time monitoring and reporting are very good. There are information updates in their portal every two minutes. They also have the ability to spill it into Sumo Logic, for example. It's very easy to use."

"The most valuable features were the real-time monitoring and the management. With this kind of product, you need a very good management system to allow you to see false positives in real-time; to see what's happening in real-time... The clarity stood out. It was very visible and very easy to navigate; very easy to find the data we were looking for."

"The main feature is using the rules and being able to see the traffic. It helps us find malicious traffic."

"The feature I find most valuable is the user-friendly dashboard. It is easy to understand how everything works and it allows you to make decisions quickly and efficiently."

"Provides mobile app security."

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Cons

"There should be a specific price list for enterprise-level customers."

"Cloudflare's free plan is limited to 5,000 records for their free plan. They should increase that. For example, if I create a domain called abc.com and a subdomain called a.abc.com, my record count will be two. I can make a maximum of 5,000 subdomains. However, if we use our own DNS hosted on another provider, there is no limit. Their free plan also lacks name server customization."

"Integration involving API with other products could be more user-friendly."

"We are a product integrator and reseller, and we would like to have a better partner relationship, similar to a channel sales relationship. Sometimes we are on our own or get diverted by Cloudflare because they have direct sales, which competes with us and makes it difficult to build a relationship with this company since we want to be an MSP or a managed service provider for the solution."

"The product needs to improve its automation."

"There could be more courses with engineers. I like e-learning, however, having a specialist in a classroom is more comfortable for me."

"I would like Cloudflare to offer a dedicated account manager for large enterprise clients like us."

"The timing aspect can lead to it being considered overpriced. This is a particular concern we have with Cloudflare, as they may struggle with accurately detecting the client."

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"The time taken to detect anomalies must be reduced."

"The product is expensive."

"The management of it is a bit hard. If you don't engineer it on the front side, it is hard to go back in and change it. It could be improved in terms of architecture requirements and then ongoing support requirements as a secondary component to it. People tend to set up things like this, and they just expect it to work without the care and feeding that needs to go back into it either from an application team or a network environment team."

"Perhaps the time required to detect anomalies can be reduced."

"The product needs to improve its logs and reports to make it read better."

"The product should give users more flexibility to customize their security policies according to their requirements."

"Perhaps the time required to detect anomalies can be reduced. Presently, it takes some time to determine whether a situation is normal or abnormal."

"We end up having to pay extra for features that AWS adds that we don't need."

"They have an interface that you have to adjust to. That is a bit of a downfall because I expect an interface to be very intuitive for someone who knows little about security. But if you know about security, the interface is wonderful."

"Some of the settings on the dashboard are confusing."

"I would like to have seen more automated reports. Maybe it has been improved in the last year and I'm just not aware of it. But from a managerial point of view, you want a summary report, a weekly report: How many attacks were blocked? How much bandwidth was saved due to the caching mechanism? What were the top-ten attacks that were tested on the network, etc? I could most likely have found all that data if I logged in to the system and ran different reports. It would be very helpful to get a management report on a weekly basis."

"It would be beneficial if it had a workflow or a feature that could fine-tune settings based on high-level requirements."

"The next release should have next-generation automation."

"We have multiple products behind different instances of Reblaze. We have one instance for staging and then we have a production instance for multiple products. One of the things that we have requested is a unified view panel, so that we can see each of the instances in a unified view. That way, we won't have to go bouncing from instance to instance."

"The WAF features are not as granular as we would expect from a WAF system. There should be more granularity and in-depth rules, out-of-the-box."

"There is room for improvement in helping us understanding session management... We want Reblaze to catch and identify everything. We want to see the various devices doing one activity and to see, in a timeline, what's happened. We would like to see a more human-readable display to understand what's happening in the web app."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"In terms of licensing costs, we don't pay for licensing for Cloudflare. We only establish communication, then for peering, Cloudflare takes care of the cross-connection in different data centers."

"There are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fees."

"The solution has many features but there are ones that you need to pay for. Sometimes you have to find out which is available for free and which you have to pay for."

"The pricing for the service is reasonable, neither excessively cheap nor prohibitively expensive. It aligns well with the value of their solution."

"We don't have any issues with the price."

"So far I use free tier and happy with it. You can subscribe to business package if needed."

"Cloudflare's pricing is not much higher and is good for middle-level organizations."

"A free version of the solution is available."

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"It depends on your subscription level and the volume that you're spending with AWS. So, it is very relative to the consumption alignment in your subscription level. It is a well-constructed, scalable pricing option, but it is relative to how much you're spending on AWS. Because the more you spend, typically, the more you get off on services like this. I find it to be comparable to other solutions."

"The tool is cheap."

"The tool's pricing is good."

"We pay $3000 per month for the solution."

"The cost depends on traffic each month, so on average, it costs us between US$200 and US$300 per month."

"We found the cost to be a bit on the higher side, starting at approximately three to four thousand dollars for a small configuration."

"On a monthly basis we pay $750."

"There is still some room for improvement when it comes to bot management from Reblaze because they are relatively new compared to other vendors in the town."

"I believe that for the six instances we have right now, it's costing us $16,000 per month."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

20%

Computer Software Company

13%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

15%

Comms Service Provider

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

18%

Educational Organization

11%

Media Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating?

Cloudflare. We are moving from Akamai prolexic to Cloudflare. Cloudflare anycast network outperforms Akamai static GR...

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Which would you choose - Cloudflare DNS or Quad9?

Cloudflare DNS is a very fast, very reliable public DNS resolver. It is an enterprise-grade authoritative DNS service...

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What do you like most about Cloudflare?

Cloudflare offers CDN and DDoS protection. We have the front end, API, and database in how you structure applications.

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What do you like most about AWS Shield?

We have integrated the tool with Active Directory. The most important feature is that it's transparent and doesn't de...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Shield?

The tool is cheap.

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What needs improvement with AWS Shield?

Perhaps the time required to detect anomalies can be reduced. Presently, it takes some time to determine whether a si...

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What do you like most about Reblaze?

It is a highly resilient product that can handle significantly larger workloads and high volumes of traffic with ease.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Reblaze?

We found the cost to be a bit on the higher side, starting at approximately three to four thousand dollars for a smal...

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What needs improvement with Reblaze?

There is a potential improvement regarding simplifying the complexity of rule creation. It would be beneficial if it ...

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Overview

Cloudflare is a highly-regarded Content Delivery Network (CDN) and a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) protection solution. The robust global connectivity cloud platform that is Cloudflare ensures users are able to connect to the Internet quickly, securely, and reliably. Cloudflare is one of the world's largest networks in the marketplace today. Using Cloudflare, businesses, educational entities, NGOs, vloggers, bloggers, and anyone else with an internet presence can experience more secure, faster websites and applications.

Currently, there are millions of Internet locations on Cloudflare, and the Cloudflare network
continues to grow every day by the thousands. The solution is able to fulfill the requests for
millions of websites seamlessly and serves on average 45 million HTTP requests per second.

Cloudflare has safe, secure data centers in close to 300 cities worldwide to ensure every
client request is filled as quickly as possible. It is Cloudflare’s edge network that makes this
possible by keeping content and other services as close to each client as possible, so the
information requests are always only seconds away.

Many organizations that work in democracy, civil society, human rights, or the arts are able to
access Cloudflare's highest levels of protection for free via Project Galileo. Additionally, official
election websites can be secured from hacking and fraud through Cloudflare’s Project
Athenian, also at no additional cost.

Cloudflare can also help organizations of all sizes develop a robust zero-trust strategy to
ensure the highest levels of productivity and profitability. Employees, stakeholders, and end users have a greater level of satisfaction and overall improved user experience, which can, in
turn, result in higher revenues and overall ROI. Zero-trust and BYOD (bring your own device)
access ensure end users and employees always have the best resources and technology
available to them at all times.

Cloudflare benefits

Cloudflare has many benefits. Some of its most valuable benefits include:

- Faster load times

- Robust DNS security

- Intuitive cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF)

- Free universal SSL

- Image enhancement

- Automatic browser caching

- Next-generation cloud load balancer

- Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)

- Rate limiting

- Minification

- Zero-trust capabilities

- Cost-effective

- Reduced carbon footprint

Reviews from real users

“Many websites require an SSL certificate because they sell stuff and want SSL. Cloudflare
comes with an SSL certificate built in. It's automatic. You sign yourself up for Cloudflare, and
an SSL certificate automatically protects your website. If you have a connection between your
website and your host, the server, Cloudflare, and the host, you don't necessarily need a
certificate.” Spencer M., Owner at Tech Exchange

“What I like best about Cloudflare is that my company can use it to trace and manage
applications and monitor traffic. The solution tells you if there's a spike in traffic. Cloudflare
also sends you a link to check your equipment and deployment and track it through peering,
so it's a valuable tool.” Daniel P., Network Engineer at Ufinet

“The most valuable feature of Cloudflare is the GUI. You are able to control the solution very
well through the interface. There is a lot of functionality that is embedded in the service.” PeerSpot user, Competence Center Manager at a tech services company

Cloudflare

AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS. AWS Shield provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency, so there is no need to engage AWS Support to benefit from DDoS protection.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Reblaze provides real-time monitoring, reporting, and botnet protections, enhancing security management with agile customization. Its intuitive dashboard supports efficient decision-making, while flexible rules and geo-blocking ensure security across geographies.

Reblaze is primarily deployed for web application firewall (WAF), DDoS prevention, and bot management, effectively defending against Layer 7 DDoS, phishing, SQL injections, cross-site scripting, and unwanted IP traffic. Supporting both public and private cloud deployments, including Amazon-hosted applications, Reblaze filters malicious activities to safeguard internet businesses. Users appreciate its comprehensive security approach, particularly for mobile app protection through its API and advanced filtering against script injections. Room for improvement includes change management, automation, reporting alerts, session management, and more granular WAF features. Adjustments in pricing and enhancements for bot management and bad IP address databases are sought after.

What are Reblaze's Most Important Features?

Intuitive Dashboard: Facilitates efficient decision-making with customizable settings.
Real-Time Monitoring: Provides active tracking and instant security insights.
WAF with Traffic Analysis: Allows detailed inspection of all incoming traffic.
Swift DDoS Defense: Rapid response against distributed denial-of-service attacks.
Flexible Rule Management: Supports extensive customization for specific needs.
Geo-Blocking: Secures resources from threats originating in specific locations.
API Security: Offers robust protection for mobile applications.
Advanced Filtering: Shields against SQL and script injection threats.

What Benefits Should Be Evaluated in Reviews?

Enhanced Security: The ability to detect and neutralize latest attacks.
Efficient Customization: Tailoring security measures to fit organizational requirements.
Real-Time Alerts: Immediate notifications of security events for prompt action.
Cloud Deployment Flexibility: Compatibility with public and private cloud environments.

In finance, Reblaze addresses the stringent demands of data protection. E-commerce platforms benefit from its robust perimeter defenses against typical threats. Healthcare industries utilize its capabilities to secure sensitive patient data, leveraging both real-time monitoring and responsive alert systems to maintain compliance and integrity.

Reblaze - part of Link11

Sample Customers

Trusted by over 9,000,000 Internet Applications and APIs, including Nasdaq, Zendesk, Crunchbase, Steve Madden, OkCupid, Cisco, Quizlet, Discord and more.

netflix, dow jones, mapbox, pearson, rovio, youview, moviestar planet, asurion, payplug, hour of code

eBay, AirAsia, Taboola, Reebonz, IAI, Payoneer, mySupermarket, William Hill, Fanduel

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