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Amazon AWS vs F5 Volterra comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon AWS
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
258
Ranking in other categories
PaaS Clouds (2nd)
F5 Volterra
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
16th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category, the mindshare of Amazon AWS is 16.2%, up from 13.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of F5 Volterra is 0.4%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon AWS16.2%
F5 Volterra0.4%
Other83.4%
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

Asif  Meem - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at sportsbet
Managed cloud services have helped accelerate experiments with flexible configuration options
Sometimes the costs associated with spinning up a service, especially managed services, have implications. For example, if I create a Glue job, that will create S3 buckets and other resources that have cost implications, but once I clean up a Glue job, it does not delete the other accessory resources. Sometimes, I have to go hunting for what resources Amazon AWS might have provisioned and how it is costing behind the scenes. It can be complex depending on your level of expertise. It is not as easy to get started, especially when it comes to secure practices. Amazon AWS is more hands-on than other platforms.
Ossama ElGedawy - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Senior Manager at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
Has integrated protection with effective mitigation of DDoS attacks
The valuable features include its API Security, anti-bot protection, and web application firewall. It has greatly improved the security posture of my applications, web applications, and also effectively mitigates DDoS attacks. Before implementing the DDoS protection on F5 Volterra, there were about three successful DDoS incidents. Afterward, I did not experience a single incident for eight months.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Dynamic usage and flexibility in choosing configurations, and the fact that Amazon’s security team is much larger than anything I could ever assemble, gives me reliance that this run time environment is going to be more secure than anything I can deploy."
"The solution can scale quite well."
"The maturity that the solution offers is its most valuable aspect, as it was one of the first solutions to market and has a long track record, making it very mature in terms of product delivery, very stable, highly scalable, very feature-rich with a strong third-party ecosystem, and enriched with great security features and capabilities."
"Cloud Trail API log storage."
"The services that we are using have frequent updates, at least twice a year. They provide a new version that has more capabilities or features that fit our process and procedures."
"We are mostly using EC2 compute and other resources. Most of our managed services are in AWS, which some of our clients prefer."
"Amazon AWS cloud is pretty mature in terms of availability for most of the infrastructure components."
"I like that it helps us do everything really fast, and its advanced services."
"The valuable features include its anti-PDUs, anti-bot protection, and web application firewall."
"It has greatly improved the security posture of my applications, web applications, and also effectively mitigates DDoS attacks."
 

Cons

"The product would be better if it was more secure."
"Their support can be improved. In some cases, their support is not as proficient as it can be. They should be quicker at getting back."
"I think the price can be improved."
"As a result of the competency, I believe that most people are now leaning toward Azure rather than AWS."
"Viewing a build could also be improved. It's not easy to follow up on your consumption and see how much you're paying and how much you will be paying."
"Some services which were easy to use through shortcuts are now more complicated to use."
"The cost structure could be better. It needs to be more transparent."
"Not all of the functionality is available in Europe and our customers in France want to be able to use features that are only available in the US."
"The reporting needs improvement in Volterra. I do not have many options to create a customized report."
"The reporting needs improvement in Volterra."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"AWS is expensive and the cost should be reduced."
"Its pricing can be simplified a little bit more. Even though they have been reducing it, I still believe they can do better as compared to GCP, Google Cloud."
"In terms of price, there are less expensive options."
"Amazon AWS is on the cheaper side, as their pricing is more competitive. There are no additional costs besides the license. However, Azure sells Microsoft licenses, so they have an advantage."
"It's expensive."
"We pay a monthly licensing fee. It's below $100 a month."
"The pricing depends on the workload. For example, if your workload involves Windows technologies, AWS may not be the most cost-effective option. In that case, you might be better off with Azure."
"It's my understanding that our company is charged a few hundred dollars on a monthly basis."
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Comparison Review

it_user8586 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Aug 14, 2013
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Educational Organization
6%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business132
Midsize Enterprise48
Large Enterprise118
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Questions from the Community

How does OpenShift compare with Amazon AWS?
Open Shift makes managing infrastructure easy because of self-healing and automatic scaling. There is also a wonderful dashboard mechanism to alert us in case the application is over-committing or ...
How is SAP Cloud Platform different than Amazon AWS?
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Looking to compare Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, and Microsoft Azure
We like Google Firebase hosting and authentication and also the excellent cloud functionality. Our team found the flexibility of handling and dealing with the database through EDL to be very useful...
What needs improvement with F5 Volterra?
The reporting needs improvement in Volterra. I do not have many options to create a customized report.
What is your primary use case for F5 Volterra?
I am hosting about twenty applications. They are behind F5, Volterra.
 

Also Known As

Amazon Web Services, AWS
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Sample Customers

Pinterest, General Electric, Pfizer, Netflix, and Nasdaq.
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