Amazon CloudFront vs Imperva DDoS comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon CloudFront
Ranking in CDN
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
24
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Imperva DDoS
Ranking in CDN
6th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
75
Ranking in other categories
Web Application Firewall (WAF) (18th), Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the CDN category, the mindshare of Amazon CloudFront is 9.0%, down from 12.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Imperva DDoS is 6.5%, down from 8.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
CDN
Unique Categories:
No other categories found
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
2.1%
Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection
8.4%
 

Featured Reviews

Bireshwar Adhikary - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 31, 2023
Straightforward deployment, stable, and scalable
The most valuable feature of the solution is the speed of delivery. For example, if we have HTML, CSS, PHP, images, and media files, CloudFront can deliver them quickly and reliably through its worldwide network of edge locations. This reduces latency, allowing webpages to open faster, while also providing high performance. If the content is not stored in the Amazon CloudFront location, it will be retrieved from an origin, such as Amazon S3, a MediaPackage Channel, or an HTTP file server. For example, if the content is stored on a web server, that server can be identified as the source for the requested content. Suppose that we are hosting an image on a traditional web server, such as a PNG file. We might place the image on a website with the image name adhikary.png. This way, our users can easily navigate to the URL and see the image. When we use Amazon CloudFront, however, they may not be aware that the request is routed from one network to another. This is because the complex connections of interconnected networks that comprise the internet are hidden until the image is found.
ST
Jun 4, 2024
Helps to automate production but needs to improve its compliance and customer support
My use case involved handling specific web applications for our operations team Imperva DDoS helps us automate production. The client had specific requirements for a cloud project in the financial sector. We faced issues regarding compliance with client procedures. The client had strict…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Edge configuration and availability are vital features for easy content drop-off requests"
"If you're using AWS entirely, it's smooth sailing."
"The support team is knowledgeable."
"The product is very well interconnected with other Amazon services."
"It has built-in DDoS protection, which protects against DDoS attacks."
"The product provides reduced latency and quicker site refreshes."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the speed of delivery."
"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."
"I like the user-friendly interface."
"Its unique interface for managing security performance and ease of use are the most valuable features of this solution."
"There is no need to have an appliance in house for the services because it is on the cloud."
"Scalability is pretty easy on the base platform. You just add another, and you're ready to go."
"They're quite easy to install and quite easy to set up. Clients really like that. Especially when you're dealing with the cloud, it's really easy."
"Simplifies putting everything in code."
"It is an effective threat mitigation tool."
"The solution has a very good interface."
 

Cons

"They could be expanding the number of locations available. It will help users easily access content."
"The product could support any network load balancer. At present, we can use only Amazon’s load balancer application."
"The product should be more intuitive."
"Sometimes, the server goes down automatically."
"The solution can benefit from expanding its data center and server locations to multiple places for smoother content delivery with even lower latency. The latency we experience is sufficient for our needs, and we are doing well. However, if they expand their locations in the future, it could be a positive factor. Its competitors have multiple data and server locations."
"Amazon CloudFront is harder to understand compared to Azure."
"One of the biggest challenges with Amazon CloudFront is their pricing policy"
"I have utilized certain characteristics and invested effort in reading the documentation, which proved to be challenging."
"Its price could be improved. It is quite expensive. It will be good if we could export the configuration. Currently, to control the configuration, we need to go to each website, which is not very convenient."
"There’s nothing that’s missing in terms of features."
"The weakest point of Imperva is their first level of support, which should be improved. They should also improve the access and security logs viewing directly on the portal. I would like to see better access and security logs through the portal and not only through a SIM solution. Currently, if you want to explore your access and security logs from Imperva, you need a SIM tool or a SIM infrastructure on your side to do it. You can't do it manually or directly through the portal, which is a big problem for us. I had a call yesterday with Imperva for the roadmap, and I just told them this. They agreed that this is an improvement point from their side."
"A limited tool if you're looking to customize."
"Imperva should have more points of presence in Africa."
"We would like them to hire people in Sweden because it's quite hard when people are sitting in the UK or Belgium because some of the customers really want them to be local."
"The rules surrounding the making of web applications could be improved."
"It would be beneficial to include vulnerability management in the solution, similar to what they have for their on-premise solution."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Compared to competitors like Azure and Google, we find AWS pricing to be advantageous."
"The product has a mid-range pricing."
"The policies and prices keep on changing frequently with AWS solutions"
"I rate the product's pricing an eight out of ten. The licensing follows a pay-as-you-go model."
"We do not have many options to optimize costs."
"Amazon CloudFront costs less than third-party services."
"For CloudFront, I'm quite satisfied with the pricing. Initially, it doesn't require many resources for this specific solution."
"Amazon CloudFront is an expensive solution."
"It is not expensive compared to the other similar solutions in this category."
"For enterprise contracts you will be in touch with a dedicated account manager who will guide you regarding licensing."
"It is a very expensive solution. The price is very high. A lot of customers tell us that they would love to use Imperva more. I have some customers who have 50 websites, but they have only 10 websites on Imperva because of the price. They would love to have all their websites running through Imperva, but they can't. They have to choose the more critical websites to protect because the price is very high. It is a very good product, but it is too expensive. If you buy a plan for 20 megabytes and you don't consume all of your 20 megabytes, it is okay, but if you consume more, you are charged for the superior traffic."
"The data packages are higher than our needs so we end up paying for data that we don't use."
"It is expensive."
"We are satisfied with the pricing."
"There is a license or subscription renewal that our customers pay."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a five out of ten."
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Comparison Review

it_user68487 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 6, 2013
CloudFlare vs Incapsula: Web Application Firewall
CloudFlare vs Incapsula: Round 2 Web Application Firewall Comparative Penetration Testing Analysis Report v1.0 Summary This document contains the results of a second comparative penetration test conducted by a team of security specialists at Zero Science Lab against two cloud-based Web…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
21%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

How do I choose between AWS Global Accelerator and Amazon CloudFront?
Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether Amazon’s Web Service Global Accelerator or Amazon CloudFront global content delivery network was the better fit for us. We decided to go w...
What do you like most about Amazon CloudFront?
The solution has good security features.
What do you like most about Imperva Incapsula?
We use Imperva DDoS to stop DDoS attacks and reduce the amount of unwanted queries against web services or web scraping.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Imperva Incapsula?
The solution is very affordable. It's based on the traffic utilization, the average traffic utilization, not the DDoS traffic. Therefore, if you're being DDoSed, you don't pay extra for the absorpt...
What needs improvement with Imperva Incapsula?
It’s hard to think of an improvement. The three-second service level agreement is already better than the competition. You would ordinarily say something like API protection. However, they've got t...
 

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Imperva Incapsula
 

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Sample Customers

Unilever, Spotify, Pinterest, MLB Advanced Media, Foursquare, PBS, Airbnb, Netflix, WIX, Comcast, Automobili Lamborghini, Rovio, Discovery Communications
Hitachi, BNZ, Bitstamp, Moz, InnoGames, BTCChina, Wix, LivePerson, Zillow and more.
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