We performed a comparison between AWS WAF and The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) 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 simple configuration and the scalability have been most valuable. We are able to scale across all of our different AWS instances."
"If hackers try to insert bugs, the tool blocks it."
"This product supplies options for web security for applications accessing sensitive information."
"As a basic WAF, it's better than nothing. So if you need something simple out of the box with default features, AWS WAF is good."
"The web solution effectively protects from vulnerabilities and cyber attacks."
"Rule groups are valuable."
"It is a one-click WAF with no effort needed."
"The most valuable feature is the security, making sure that files are protected, preventing unauthorized users from accessing the system."
"When configuring a web application firewall using Signal Sciences, we configure a rule whereby no one except a few people can access the application."
"Fastly (Signal Sciences) integrates and tags the intermittent traffic based on patterns. It generates signals and provides them in a dashboard where we can view them and decide whether to allow or deny traffic. It's a more advanced and easy-to-navigate dashboard."
"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to set up the rules easily."
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"The cost must be reduced."
"The solution could improve by having better rules, they are very basic at the moment. There are more attacks coming and we have to use third-party solutions, such as FIA. The features are not sufficient to prevent all the attacks, such as DDoS. Overall the solution should be more secure."
"The technical support does not respond to bugs in the coding of the product."
"One area that could be improved is the DDoS protection."
"In a future release of this solution, I would like to see additional management features to make things simpler."
"The user experience, the interface, is lacking. Sometimes it's hard to find certain areas that it has alerted on."
"When users choose the free service, there isn't great support available to them."
"The pricing model is complicated."
"Fastly don't support caching for China users. That's the only feature lacking compared to Akamai."
"The areas that could be improved in Signal Sciences include the effectiveness of rules, as many didn't function optimally and required custom rule-writing to address bypasses for WAF."
"Even if we create some custom rules, Signal Sciences cannot capture some of the malicious traffic."
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AWS WAF is ranked 1st in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 52 reviews while The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) is ranked 28th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 3 reviews. AWS WAF is rated 8.0, while The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) 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 The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) writes "A good solution to implement web application firewall for applications". AWS WAF is most compared with Azure Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, F5 Advanced WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, whereas The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) is most compared with Cloudflare, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Azure Web Application Firewall, Akamai App and API Protector and Imperva Web Application Firewall. See our AWS WAF vs. The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) report.
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