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Barracuda Application Protection vs F5 Distributed Cloud Services comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 26, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Barracuda Application Prote...
Ranking in API Security
32nd
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
F5 Distributed Cloud Services
Ranking in API Security
8th
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.4
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
CDN (11th), Web Application Firewall (WAF) (19th), AWS Marketplace (27th)
 

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Protects web applications with comprehensive security features
All features are valuable. In a multi-cloud or distributed cloud, there are many protection possibilities from data to web application or API protection, including bot mitigation. This is a comprehensive package for web application security. The main benefit is Web App Security, offering a complete security package from DDoS to web application firewall, API protection, and bot mitigation.
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Computer Software Company
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Financial Services Firm
13%
Insurance Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for F5 Distributed Cloud Services?
I am not involved in sales, so I do not deal with the pricing aspect directly. I give the cost of the solution a four out of ten since it is not a cheap product.
What needs improvement with F5 Distributed Cloud Services?
It's a long way to be perfect, of course, as with all solutions. The main issue is integration with other parts or products of F5, like on-premise WAF. There are some problems, mainly from the pers...
What is your primary use case for F5 Distributed Cloud Services?
There are two main use cases for Distributed Call Services: DDoS or Distributed attacks protection and WAF web application security or firewall.
 

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