Whether AWS WAF is worth the monthly investment of $50 to $60 depends on your budget and preferences. While AWS WAF offers robust features, there are also free tools available like ModSecurity that require more configuration but can still provide adequate protection.
There is no licensing at all. We have to pay for it as we use it. On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a seven or eight out of ten.
IT Project Manager at Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute In India
Real User
Top 10
2023-12-27T03:59:21Z
Dec 27, 2023
I rate the product price a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is high price, and ten is low price. I recommend people check for the services that run in the AWS WAF account. Each service that uses AWS will need the user to pay for some costs. Most of the people who use the solution are not able to understand the number of services that are running in the product. Even though there is a feature to help understand top-level management, people fail to figure out the number of services that are running in the product.
The pricing totally depends on the number of requests entering the WAF. For example, in case we have a DDoS type of attack, at that time, the price will surge quickly. For example, it will go up to two hundred dollars within three to four days. So it totally depends on the number of requests it is processing. There are additional costs to the standard license because it totally depends on the number of incoming requests.
Cloud Security Manager at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
MSP
Top 10
2023-01-31T16:59:15Z
Jan 31, 2023
Its price is fair. There is a very fair amount that they charge. It has a pay-as-you-go model, so it pretty much depends on how much a user uses it. As per the cloud norms, the more you use, the more you pay. I would rate it a five out of ten in terms of pricing.
For our infrastructure, we probably pay around $16,000 per month for AWS WAF. Because alternative WAF solutions provide even more features, I think the AWS WAF is a bit pricey
Advisory and IT Transformation Consultant at Services dot cloud
Real User
Top 20
2022-08-03T11:24:15Z
Aug 3, 2022
The price of AWS WAF is expensive if you do not know how to manage your software up or down. I price of the solution is average amongst the other competitors but it would be better if it was less expensive.
Principal Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
2021-12-28T09:57:00Z
Dec 28, 2021
AWS WAF is pay-as-you-go, I only pay for what I'm using. There is no subscription or any payment upfront, I can terminate use at any time. Which is an advantage.
We are kind of doing a POC comparison to see what works best. Pricing-wise, AWS is one of the most attractive ones. It is fairly cheap, and we like the pricing part. We're trying to see what makes more sense operation-wise, license-wise, and pricing-wise.
President at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Real User
2020-09-13T07:02:26Z
Sep 13, 2020
The licensing costs are variable. For me, it is under a hundred dollars a month. The range of your costs with Amazon Web Services is going to be different depending on a lot of factors. It can go as low as actually being free all the way up to millions of dollars. It depends on the organization and how the service is used.
Principal Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
2020-08-05T06:59:31Z
Aug 5, 2020
As far as pricing considerations, there are other competitors to consider. All the solutions are not easy and all will not do exactly the same thing or even what you need. SecureSphere is expensive, I think $20,000 per year. If you go for ManageEngine or any other solution, they also go for close to $10,000. It depends on how many applications you are running and how many servers you have. They can easily run into close to $10,000 a year. Database security and application security are generally costly solutions. AWS is not that costly by comparison. They are maybe close to $40 per month. I think it was between $29 or $39.
AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) is a firewall security system that monitors incoming and outgoing traffic for applications and websites based on your pre-defined web security rules. AWS WAF defends applications and websites from common Web attacks that could otherwise damage application performance and availability and compromise security.
You can create rules in AWS WAF that can include blocking specific HTTP headers, IP addresses, and URI strings. These rules prevent common web...
Pricing is reasonable depending on the organization’s needs. Some organizations might find it costly, leading them to other solutions like OWASP.
Whether AWS WAF is worth the monthly investment of $50 to $60 depends on your budget and preferences. While AWS WAF offers robust features, there are also free tools available like ModSecurity that require more configuration but can still provide adequate protection.
There is no licensing at all. We have to pay for it as we use it. On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a seven or eight out of ten.
I rate the product price a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is high price, and ten is low price. I recommend people check for the services that run in the AWS WAF account. Each service that uses AWS will need the user to pay for some costs. Most of the people who use the solution are not able to understand the number of services that are running in the product. Even though there is a feature to help understand top-level management, people fail to figure out the number of services that are running in the product.
AWS WAF has reasonable pricing.
AWS WAF has reasonable pricing.
We pay $0.8 per hour. The product’s pricing is reasonable.
The pricing totally depends on the number of requests entering the WAF. For example, in case we have a DDoS type of attack, at that time, the price will surge quickly. For example, it will go up to two hundred dollars within three to four days. So it totally depends on the number of requests it is processing. There are additional costs to the standard license because it totally depends on the number of incoming requests.
There are no separate licensing costs we pay for since it is included in the plan we purchase.
The solution is really expensive. I would give it a ten out of ten in terms of costliness. You have to pay additionally for data transfer.
The solution's cost depends on the use cases.
The price is average.
Its price is fair. There is a very fair amount that they charge. It has a pay-as-you-go model, so it pretty much depends on how much a user uses it. As per the cloud norms, the more you use, the more you pay. I would rate it a five out of ten in terms of pricing.
The pricing is good and manageable. I rate pricing a ten out of ten.
For our infrastructure, we probably pay around $16,000 per month for AWS WAF. Because alternative WAF solutions provide even more features, I think the AWS WAF is a bit pricey
We have a medium amount of traffic per month and the cost is in the hundreds rather than in the thousands. I don't know the exact number.
The price of AWS WAF is expensive if you do not know how to manage your software up or down. I price of the solution is average amongst the other competitors but it would be better if it was less expensive.
You need an additional AWS subscription for this product if you are buying a managed tool.
AWS WAF is pay-as-you-go, I only pay for what I'm using. There is no subscription or any payment upfront, I can terminate use at any time. Which is an advantage.
It's less cost and easy to setup
The solution could be more cost-efficient for small customers.
The solution is very reasonably priced.
It's quite affordable. It's in the middle. Everything is included with the usage that you take up when you implement the service.
We are kind of doing a POC comparison to see what works best. Pricing-wise, AWS is one of the most attractive ones. It is fairly cheap, and we like the pricing part. We're trying to see what makes more sense operation-wise, license-wise, and pricing-wise.
The licensing costs are variable. For me, it is under a hundred dollars a month. The range of your costs with Amazon Web Services is going to be different depending on a lot of factors. It can go as low as actually being free all the way up to millions of dollars. It depends on the organization and how the service is used.
As far as pricing considerations, there are other competitors to consider. All the solutions are not easy and all will not do exactly the same thing or even what you need. SecureSphere is expensive, I think $20,000 per year. If you go for ManageEngine or any other solution, they also go for close to $10,000. It depends on how many applications you are running and how many servers you have. They can easily run into close to $10,000 a year. Database security and application security are generally costly solutions. AWS is not that costly by comparison. They are maybe close to $40 per month. I think it was between $29 or $39.
There are two versions of the solution available, one of which is free, which is the version we use, so we don't pay for anything.
The price of the product is fair enough and one of the product's advantages. Their price is good compared to other vendors.
There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees.
It's an annual subscription. There are no additional fees beyond the standard licensing.
There are different scale options available for WAF.