We performed a comparison between AWS WAF and Fastly 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."It's simple, easy to use."
"What I like best about AWS WAF is that it's a simple tool, so I could understand the basics of AWS WAF in two to three hours."
"The access instruction feature is the most valuable. This is what we use the most."
"This product supplies options for web security for applications accessing sensitive information."
"The most valuable feature is the security, making sure that files are protected, preventing unauthorized users from accessing the system."
"The web solution effectively protects from vulnerabilities and cyber attacks."
"The most valuable aspect is that it protects our code. It's a bit difficult to overwrite code in our application. It also protects against threats."
"Rule groups are valuable."
"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."
"Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks."
"Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute."
"Support is good; the product works as advertised. We have a Slack connection with them. So we can basically ask for help, live, engage, and ring when they respond. Very quickly."
"The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
"They have to do more to improve, to innovate more features. They need to increase the security. It has to be more active in detecting threats."
"The setup is complicated."
"We need more support as we go global."
"The cost must be reduced."
"I would like to see the addition of more advanced rate-limiting features in the next release. It would be beneficial to extend rate limiting beyond just web servers to the main node level."
"While the complexity of the installation can vary from one service to another, overall, I would say that it and the configuration and navigation are somewhat complex."
"We have issues with reporting, troubleshooting, and analytics. AWS WAF needs to bring costs down."
"They should make the implementation process faster."
"Support is not that great."
"It is missing a "staging" platform to deploy a test configuration with all of the real settings, which would allow us to properly test before putting it into production."
"The product should provide improved bot detection and management."
"Stronger analytics would be helpful, like showing configurations that haven't served a certain amount of traffic in a while. With many properties, things can get lost track of - duplicates or unused configurations not properly decommissioned."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement."
AWS WAF is ranked 1st in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 52 reviews while Fastly is ranked 17th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 6 reviews. AWS WAF is rated 8.0, while Fastly is rated 8.6. 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 Fastly writes "An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support". AWS WAF is most compared with Azure Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Imperva Web Application Firewall, F5 Advanced WAF and Imperva DDoS, whereas Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Edgio Global CDN, Amazon CloudFront and Imperva DDoS. See our AWS WAF vs. Fastly report.
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