We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudFront and AWS WAF based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, Microsoft, Akamai and others in CDN."The most valuable feature of the solution is the speed of delivery."
"The distribution aspect of CloudFront and its ability to reduce latency are most beneficial."
"The solution has good security features."
"It is stable."
"The speed and usability of the solution are valuable."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the availability of the websites."
"The tool is highly available and reliable. It helps to access server applications easily. Integrating Amazon CloudFront with other AWS services was very easy, I would rate it eight out of ten."
"The beneficial feature for the entire AWS community is the presence of edge location servers. These servers are strategically located in multiple locations, allowing efficient content delivery from the nearest server."
"We do not have to maintain the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the addition of managed tools that help us create customizable rules. In case we want to block a particular request, we can make use of those rules."
"The ability to take multiple data sets and match those data sets together is the solution's most valuable feature. The data lake that comes with it is very useful because that allows us to match data sets with different configurations that we wouldn't normally be able to match."
"One common use case is using detection protection for enhancing security models in AWS. Another use case is implementing log analysis and response recovery procedures for email services."
"If hackers try to insert bugs, the tool blocks it."
"The interface is good."
"The web solution effectively protects from vulnerabilities and cyber attacks."
"The most valuable features of AWS WAF are its cloud-native and on-demand."
"Sometimes, the server goes down automatically."
"There is room for improvement in customer service and support."
"They could be expanding the number of locations available. It will help users easily access content."
"The support must be improved."
"Amazon CloudFront can improve by accurately determining the latency of a non-defined URL that the solution encounters."
"I have utilized certain characteristics and invested effort in reading the documentation, which proved to be challenging."
"Amazon CloudFront's setup is a bit difficult, and we would love it if they made it easier."
"The tool must provide regional control."
"The product could be improved by expanding the weightage units of rules."
"The area of reporting in the product needs to have a proper format."
"We should be able to do proper whitelisting."
"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."
"It's a bit difficult to apply the right rules for the right security."
"The product should improve the DDoS-related features."
"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."
Amazon CloudFront is ranked 4th in CDN with 21 reviews while AWS WAF is ranked 1st in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 52 reviews. Amazon CloudFront is rated 8.0, while AWS WAF is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudFront writes "Top-notch in terms of customer service and offers pay-as-you-go model with a free tier". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AWS WAF writes "A highly stable solution that helps mitigate different kinds of bot attacks and SQL injection attacks". Amazon CloudFront is most compared with Azure Front Door, Akamai, Cloudflare, Windows Azure CDN and Fastly, whereas AWS WAF is most compared with Azure Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Imperva Web Application Firewall, F5 Advanced WAF and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall.
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