F5 Advanced WAF vs Fastly comparison

"The Cloudflare Web Application Firewall's most valuable feature is its ease of configuration."

"It protects web applications efficiently."

"The product has improved our security posture by blocking bad actors."

"Very glad the WAF rulesets works out of box, and requires very little tuning or maintenance."

"We like that there's load balancing, firewall capabilities, DDoS protection, et cetera, all covered by Cloudflare."

"This is a good product; it's reliable and scales well."

"The integration of Cloudflare with Cloud Suite is its most valuable feature."

"The setup process is very simple for me."

"I like all of the features, but the main one is the attack signatures."

"In this case, we used a few long-term models because F5 Advanced WAF is a complete solution."

"There are more features than any other product I can think of."

"The whole mechanism of F5 Advanced WAF is effective."

"The most valuable feature is that it is secure."

"Web attack signatures are very important for detecting web attacks."

"As far as I am concerned, F5 Advanced WAF is one of the most stable solutions I've ever used, so it's good to implement."

"F5 Advanced WAF is a stable solution, we are satisfied. It is more stable than ForiWeb."

"The product's initial setup phase is straightforward."

"The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly."

"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."

"In summary, this solution is easy to manage, quick to deploy, and all of my customers are happy."

"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."

"Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute."

"Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks."

"Their documentation could be better. They don't have documentation that explains everything well. They have documentation for everything you're looking for, but they lack a single piece of documentation to tie everything together. As a new user or beginner, it took us a little bit of time to figure out how to put all these things in place."

"We don't even use Cloudflare Bot Management because it's too expensive; you need to pay per request, and it's much cheaper to get one or two additional machines."

"The reporting could be improved if it were more granular."

"They have some limitations with third-party integrations."

"Cloudflare Web Application Firewall should include port forwarding features."

"The product can improve by having more multitenancy capability, which is currently not available."

"The blocked logs are difficult to read at times."

"It would be ideal if the solution offered better log integration and more integration with different platforms."

"I would like for there to be a cloud-based solution, this would also help to improve scalability."

"It's a powerful tool yet can be complex for new users."

"The product could be more user-friendly, particularly the user interface for administrators."

"F5 Advanced WAF could improve the precision of the scanning. There are many false positives. They should improve their threat database."

"My experience with the technical support from F5 is that on the technical side, we sometimes face issues with reachability and availability."

"It should be a little bit easy to deploy in terms of the overall deployment session. One of our customers is a bit unhappy about the reporting options. Currently, it automatically deletes event logs after some limit if a customer doesn't have any external Syslog server. It is a problem for those customers who want to review event logs after a week or so because they won't get proper reports or event logs. They should increase the duration to at least a month or two for storing the data on the device. F5 is not a leader in Gartner Quadrant, which affects us when we go and pitch this solution. Customers normally go and take a look at such annual reports, and because F5 is currently not there as a leader, the customers ask about it even though we are saying it is good in all things. F5 is not known for something totally different or unique. They were a major player in ADP, and they are just rebranding themselves into security. They should improve or increase their marketing as a security company now. They have already started to do that, but they should do it more so that when it comes to security, customers can easily remember F5. At the moment, if we say F5, load balancing comes to mind. With rebranding and marketing, all customers should get the idea that F5 is now mainly focusing on the security part of it, and it is a security company instead of load balancing. This is the first solution that should come to a customer's mind for a web application firewall."

"Compatibility with multiple cloud environments needs improvement. Both stability and scalability need to be improved."

"The product could be more user-friendly for administrators."

"We are not getting quick responses from Fastly technical support engineers. Sometimes they depend on their D3 developers."

"What I don't like about Fastly is that they charge a heavy price."

"The solution's pricing could be better."

"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement."

"It's not easy to start with Fastly if you don't have VCL knowledge, so it appears very complex at the beginning."

"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."

"Support is not that great."

"We pay $210 per month for CloudFlare WAF."

"It is not too pricey."

"What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing? I believe the pricing is not the best, but it's reasonable and acceptable. We also use the McAfee system in parallel. In terms of pricing, its okay - not great, but not bad either. It falls in the middle, which is acceptable. In terms of support licensing, last time, we were searching for a solution, and we considered products from resellers rather than directly from the cloud provider. However, the pricing we encountered was exceptionally high. As a result, we are inclined to select support from the reseller."

"Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is more affordable than other solutions."

"It starts at $20 and can easily go up to $200 monthly"

"Cloudflare offers different types of subscriptions for businesses, enterprises, and personal users, and the pricing is negotiable."

"The pricing model is very straightforward compared to the competition. You just pay per month for the product and usage."

"The annual licensing fee is $10,000 USD."

"I rate F5 Advanced WAF's pricing a three out of ten."

"The cost is slightly above average."

"F5 Advanced WAF pricing structure should be adjusted to meet the need of small to medium-sized companies."

"The solution is very expensive so should only be used in the right environment."

"F5 bundles up services and the bundle is what you pay for rather than individual components."

"Pricing for this solution is higher than average."

"As far as the pricing of F5 Advanced WAF I would rate it a four out of five depending on what features I am looking for. Imperva is more expensive."

"The pricing of F5 Advanced WAF is more expensive than other solutions like Radware and CD18, it is quite high."

"I've generally found Fastly to be very competitive in pricing, especially around Compute@Edge."

"You need to pay a premium price for the tool."

"It is an expensive solution."

"The solution is cheaper than other products in the market."

"Fastly is less expensive than one of its competitors."

"The pricing has been very competitive."

"In my opinion, Fastly is priced competitively."