We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudFront and Imperva DDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two CDN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the number of servers they can put your content in while being reliable."
"The solution has many features that are comprehensive."
"If you're using AWS entirely, it's smooth sailing."
"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to deliver content to users nearby."
"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 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."
"It has built-in DDoS protection, which protects against DDoS attacks."
"Provides Anti-DDoS protection, as well as other protections like SQL injection, Cross-Site Scripting, and antiscanner. These types of protection are valuable to the business due to the daily attacks on our portals, and that often cannot be seen without a tool like this."
"This product is a reliable defense from malicious attacks on a network environment."
"Setup was straightforward, very simple. I only entered the domain and Incapsula returned the DNS data that I needed to change for the protection to be configured."
"On the site security, I can see which countries have incidents, whether it was a robot attack, a real human user, or non-human user."
"Technical support provides good, quick responses."
"Simplifies putting everything in code."
"It is a stable solution."
"There is no need to have an appliance in house for the services because it is on the cloud."
"A lot of caching features must be added to the solution."
"Amazon CloudFront can improve by accurately determining the latency of a non-defined URL that the solution encounters."
"They could be expanding the number of locations available. It will help users easily access content."
"The tool must provide regional control."
"There is room for improvement in customer service and support."
"The user interface could be improved."
"They should have more Edge locations so that CloudFront can be used much more. If they can make it a little bit cheaper and better than other networks, we will be able to use it more."
"The product should be more intuitive."
"I miss being able to integrate the dashboard with other BI tools we are using. We have to export and import data to be able to present it, and doing so is a lot of work."
"The cost could be lower; our end clients need to have a high budget to purchase this solution."
"Imperva now offers add-ons to add functionality, but I would like to see these included in the product, even if it would cost more."
"Imperva should have more points of presence in Africa."
"Incapsula services also provides load balancing services for their service IP address environment. So far, with monitoring their services, the IP address was only changed once."
"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."
"I would like to have support for SSL management and secure DNS."
"We had an issue when securing the web applications for DDoS protection."
Amazon CloudFront is ranked 4th in CDN with 21 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 5th in CDN with 74 reviews. Amazon CloudFront is rated 8.0, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. 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 Imperva DDoS writes "I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions". Amazon CloudFront is most compared with Azure Front Door, Akamai, Cloudflare, Windows Azure CDN and Edgio Global CDN, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and Akamai App and API Protector. See our Amazon CloudFront vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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