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."The ability to take multiple data sets and match those data sets together is the solution's most valuable feature. The data lake that comes with it is very useful because that allows us to match data sets with different configurations that we wouldn't normally be able to match."
"The solution is stable."
"This is not a product that you need to install. You just use it."
"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."
"We can host any DB or application on the solution."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the capability to limit access based on geographical location by restricting specific IP addresses."
"The product’s availability, ease of configuration, and documentation are valuable."
"The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is its cloud-native functionality and the high level of protection it provides."
"The most valuable features are the configuration and configuring the process."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is the benchmark performance."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"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."
"It's a good front end for public infrastructure"
"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."
"It would be good if the solution provided managed WAF services."
"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."
"The product must provide more features."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"The solution is cloud-based, and therefore the billing model that comes with it could be more intuitive, in my opinion. It's very easy to not fully understand how you tag things for billing and then you can quite easily run up a high bill without realizing it. The solution needs to be more intuitive around the tagging system, which enables the billing. Right now, I have a cloud architect that does that on our behalf and it isn't something that a business user could use because it still requires quite a lot of technical knowledge to do effectively."
"The cost management has room for improvement."
"They should make the implementation process faster."
"We should be able to do proper whitelisting."
"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."
"The navigation is difficult to use."
"F5 Silverline Managed Services can improve by adding features that Palo Alto has."
"We need to have support for cloud protection, which is not offered by this solution."
"F5 Silverline Managed Services can improve by reducing the price."
"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."
"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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