We performed a comparison between AWS WAF and Imperva DDoS 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 customized billing is the most valuable feature."
"The security firewall plus the features that protect against database injections or scripting,"
"The solution is stable."
"The tool’s stability is very good."
"The stability of AWS WAF is valuable."
"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 access instruction feature is the most valuable. This is what we use the most."
"The customizable features are good."
"Its unique interface for managing security performance and ease of use are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The most valuable features for us are the DDoS and Bot."
"Scalability is pretty easy on the base platform. You just add another, and you're ready to go."
"It is an effective threat mitigation tool."
"On the activity log, I can see the exact details, the visit, and the threat."
"We have peace of mind that nobody will use malware on us or try to hack our website."
"Simplifies putting everything in code."
"It's very pretty easy to onboard the URL."
"I believe there is a need to move towards real-time analysis with the help of AI and intelligent systems in the future. This would reduce the reliance on manual work and enhance the functionality of detection protection. By incorporating AI-driven data analysis and data science techniques, we can improve the solution's user-friendliness, security compatibility, and accuracy."
"We need more support as we go global."
"The technical support does not respond to bugs in the coding of the product."
"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."
"We haven't faced any problems with the solution."
"I would like to see the addition of more advanced rate-limiting features in the next release. It would be beneficial to extend rate limiting beyond just web servers to the main node level."
"On the UI side, I would like it if they could bring back the geolocation view on the corner."
"They have to do more to improve, to innovate more features. They need to increase the security. It has to be more active in detecting threats."
"It's quite expensive."
"Its price could be improved. It is quite expensive. It will be good if we could export the configuration. Currently, to control the configuration, we need to go to each website, which is not very convenient."
"Certificate management could be improved."
"It needs to be improved every time there are new attacks."
"Imperva now offers add-ons to add functionality, but I would like to see these included in the product, even if it would cost more."
"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."
"I am not sure if this application has a policy where you can create your custom policy and run it as our firewall. We should have some ability to also create some custom policy, then run it as a firewall."
"Some maintenance must be performed by our IT team."
AWS WAF is ranked 1st in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 52 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 18th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 74 reviews. AWS WAF is rated 8.0, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. 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 Imperva DDoS writes "I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions". AWS WAF is most compared with Azure Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, F5 Advanced WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and F5 Silverline Managed Services, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and Fastly. See our AWS WAF vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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