We performed a comparison between AWS Shield and F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is integrated with AWS. So, it gives you a good first step."
"The solution's ease of use is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"The product has a good mechanism to analyze trends and trigger events."
"I am impressed with the product's multiple features like security."
"Its performance and ease of use are valuable."
"The product helps us provide security validation by protecting various applications from getting hacked."
"The decryption is great."
"The solution is easily deployable and has great functionality."
"We use three main features. The first one is access control. The second feature we use is called IP intelligence. Finally, we have a DDoS safety feature."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP AFM is the iRules where I can customize the configuration."
"CGNAT is one of its strong areas."
"It blocks various attacks and mitigates disasters from occurring."
"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."
"The product is expensive."
"The product should give users more flexibility to customize their security policies according to their requirements."
"The product needs to improve its logs and reports to make it read better."
"We end up having to pay extra for features that AWS adds that we don't need."
"F5 could provide a distributed cloud version."
"For configuring the firewall, every single vendor on the planet has pretty much the same logic when it comes to firewalls, and F5 has a completely different approach and completely different behavior."
"The pricing of the solution could be a little bit better."
"Deployment times vary according to the customer. It needs to be heavily configured. You need to look and you need to observe the behavior of the traffic before you can start configuring everything. It can take time."
"We needed to protect the database but the solution didn't offer a certain feature to do so."
"Currently, we have eighty F5s and we need some kind of management software. It would be very helpful."
"There should be simplified and better integration with BIG-IQ."
"It doesn't compare to next generation firewalls"
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AWS Shield is ranked 6th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 5 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is ranked 8th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 21 reviews. AWS Shield is rated 8.6, while F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of AWS Shield writes "The solution automatically scales according to traffic, only takes minutes to deploy, and is maintenance-free". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) writes "Straightforward setup with very good granularity and performance". AWS Shield is most compared with Cloudflare, Cloudflare DDoS, Azure DDoS Protection and Akamai App and API Protector, whereas F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with Arbor DDoS and Radware DefensePro. See our AWS Shield vs. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) report.
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