We performed a comparison between AWS WAF and Symantec Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), F5, Microsoft and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."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."
"We can host any DB or application on the solution."
"The most valuable features of AWS WAF are its cloud-native and on-demand."
"AWS WAF is very easy to use and configure on AWS."
"The agility is great for us in terms of cloud services in general."
"The product's initial setup phase was very simple."
"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."
"AWS has flexibility in terms of WAF rules."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The solution has an up-to-date data repository to deal with external threats."
"The setup was straightforward."
"The product must provide more features."
"The solution's pricing could be improved."
"Technical support for AWS WAF needs improvement."
"The solution can improve its price."
"The user experience, the interface, is lacking. Sometimes it's hard to find certain areas that it has alerted on."
"For now, there is no feature to protect against attack of the bad bots"
"The area of reporting in the product needs to have a proper format."
"The serverless product from AWS WAF could be improved. For example, they have only one serverless series, Lambda, but they should extend and improve it. Additionally, the firewall rules are not very easy to configure."
"Sometimes scanning slows down the endpoints."
"I'm not convinced that it's necessary the best solution going forward in the future."
"It would be an improvement if the management dashboards were not reliant upon Java."
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AWS WAF is ranked 1st in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 52 reviews while Symantec Web Application Firewall is ranked 38th in Web Application Firewall (WAF). AWS WAF is rated 8.0, while Symantec Web Application Firewall is rated 8.4. 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 Symantec Web Application Firewall writes "An excellent up-to-date data repository handling external threats successfully". AWS WAF is most compared with Azure Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, F5 Advanced WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Fortinet FortiWeb, whereas Symantec Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM).
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