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We performed a comparison between Azure DDoS Protection and F5 Silverline Managed Services based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Azure DDoS Protection vs. F5 Silverline Managed Services Report (Updated: March 2024).
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"Azure DDoS Protection offers superior protection against denial-of-service attacks.""The most important feature is that the solution continuously monitors traffic by inbuilt rules to identify preconfigured attacks.""This solution is the best option for us because we use a lot of Microsoft products. So, it is easy for us to deploy or integrate any features or products.""The most valuable feature of Azure DDoS Protection is that it performs well.""I like the user interface, documentation, and support. Azure DDoS Protection is one of the most valuable solutions for any endpoint that is publicly reachable through the internet. It will automatically secure all your endpoints from third-party attacks, cyber attacks, or phishing attacks.""DDoS Protection is simple to deploy and integrates seamlessly with the Azure environment. Ease of deployment is a crucial feature for us."

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"F5 technical support is really good.""Its flexibility is the most valuable because it is a managed service. The good part is that you don't need to set it up. It just needs DNS routing, which is the easiest thing. Our client had Akamai for certain websites because they were using CDN features. They had NetScaler on the internal zone, F5 AWAFs on the data centers, and no WAF at all in the cloud. One of the main activities of the project was to move all these policies into a single WAF so that we could control and use that as a choke point. That exercise itself was very easy because it was a managed service and F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall does that for you. That's the best thing about F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall. It is easy to apply policies on-premises. If you have AWAF on-premises and you want to replicate some policies on F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall, other than the policies that it applies by itself, it is easy because you have a team that supports it. F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall works perfectly fine. It pretty much does everything that an Advanced WAF on-premises should do.""The initial setup is straightforward.""The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is it becomes similar to a distributed architecture.""The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is the benchmark performance.""The most important feature is that they have seven firewall protection, to protect our web servers.""The most valuable feature is flexibility.""The most valuable features are the configuration and configuring the process."

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Cons
"The visibility could be better. We would like to have better metrics, so we could see all the information in a central place.""Sometimes, it is hard for our staff to keep track of changes (in the GUI) between different projects, because there are constant changes. As a result, it is hard to manage, recall, and see all the features because they have been moved from one place to another.""The implementation of Azure DDoS Protection results in a decrease in our bandwidth capacity and should be optimized to reduce resource consumption.""Azure DDoS Protection could improve on the reporting.""The UI needs to be improved.""The reporting aspect and dashboard management monitoring need improvement."

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"F5 Silverline Managed Services can improve by reducing the price.""You need to have Linux knowledge in order to use the shell.""We'd like more AI to be used. Right now, they don't use it enough.""The product could be improved on the global load and the integration with the other solution like Cisco and Dell. As a representor of the operation, we prefer to have one platform which can accommodate all type of integration. We are also looking for more improvements in the security policy configuration.""We need to have support for cloud protection, which is not offered by this solution.""I just hope the price can be cheaper.""There is room for improvement in the stability of the solution.""F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall, being a new product in the market or comparatively related to a new product, currently supports less number of PoPs. They should introduce more PoPs. The current number of PoPs that they have is around 10 or 12, which is still relatively less as compared to 2,400 plus PoPs that Akamai offers. The user latency or the number of hops a user needs before reaching the actual web application is less in Akamai because it has its internal fabric to route the traffic. They need to spin up more data to increase its traffic handling capability. They can also include the bot detection capability, though it is a pretty advanced functionality. If they could include DataDome like functionality, that is, bot prediction, then F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall will be top-notch in the market."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "You can test it for a certain period of time free of charge. You can have a free account. You can test it to compare its pros and cons with other products that you are testing."
  • "The pricing is quite high. It is a monthly subscription that costs about $2,000 per month, depending on the user sizes."
  • "The pricing is good but is not the best. It could be improved so that middle-sized organizations, such as startups, can benefit from it."
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  • "F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall works based on your bandwidth. They look at the clean bandwidth and do the pricing. 20% of a total pipe would be a clean bandwidth. The list price or a non-negotiated price for F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall would be around $2,200 per application per year for everything that you need. When you get into an enterprise kind of a setup, they negotiate this to the last bit. I would easily take 20% on that, which would be the cost, but it should cover all your Advance WAF features, bot protection, tech campaign, etc. It is built as a package and gives you most of the capability. You don't get the mobile SDK, which is an additional license. Mobile SDK is required only if you're buying or if you have a mobile application, and you are going to instrument F5 or Imperva into your mobile appliance. This anyways would be an additional module. It doesn't come within the WAF, but it is a WAF feature."
  • "The price of F5 Silverline Managed Services could be better, they are not very flexible. The price of the solution is based on the requirements of the enterprise."
  • "The price of F5 Silverline Managed Services could be reduced."
  • "The product’s pricing is reasonable."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Azure DDoS Protection offers superior protection against denial-of-service attacks.
    Top Answer:The pricing is straightforward. We enable DDoS Protection for our entire subscription. Anything with a public IP that is exposed is protected, and we don't have to do anything else.
    Top Answer:The implementation of Azure DDoS Protection results in a decrease in our bandwidth capacity and should be optimized to reduce resource consumption. I would like to have an analytic dashboard for… more »
    Top Answer:For ADC, any ADC can do a good job. But in case if you want to add WAF functionality to the same ADC hardware you have to look for other ADC's like F5, Imperva, Radware, Fortinet, etc. 
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    Also Known As
    F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall, F5 Silverline DDoS Protection
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    Overview

    Azure DDoS Protection, combined with application design best practices, provides defense against DDoS attacks.

    To learn more about our solution, ask questions, and share feedback, join our Microsoft Security, Compliance and Identity Community.

    F5's Silverline Managed Services is a SaaS solution delivering DDoS protection, managed Web Application Firewall (WAF) services, and managed Shape Security Fraud and Anti-bot solutions.

    Silverline services include 24x7 access to F5's Security Operations Center (SOC). F5's expert security professionals use F5 products with state-of-the-art security tools to ensure the best protection possible. As an add-on to Silverline DDoS or WAF services, Silverline Threat Intelligence integrates dynamic lists of threatening IP addresses to give context for policy decisions.

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    City Bank, Ricacorp Properties, Miele, American Systems, Bangladesh Post Office
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    Government8%
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    Financial Services Firm44%
    Non Tech Company22%
    Individual & Family Service11%
    Comms Service Provider11%
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    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Insurance Company9%
    Government8%
    Company Size
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    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise63%
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    Small Business43%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise50%
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    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise70%
    Buyer's Guide
    Azure DDoS Protection vs. F5 Silverline Managed Services
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Azure DDoS Protection vs. F5 Silverline Managed Services and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Azure DDoS Protection is ranked 8th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 6 reviews while F5 Silverline Managed Services is ranked 11th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 14 reviews. Azure DDoS Protection is rated 8.6, while F5 Silverline Managed Services is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Azure DDoS Protection writes "It's simple to deploy and integrates seamlessly with the Azure environment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 Silverline Managed Services writes "It is flexible and lets you easily apply policies, but it needs to support more PoPs". Azure DDoS Protection is most compared with Azure Front Door, Azure Firewall, AWS Shield, Cloudflare and Arbor DDoS, whereas F5 Silverline Managed Services is most compared with Cloudflare, Arbor DDoS, AWS WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM). See our Azure DDoS Protection vs. F5 Silverline Managed Services report.

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