We performed a comparison between Cloudflare DDoS and F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) 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."Cloudflare is simple to use."
"It will take the blow rather than our applications should an attack occur."
"The best feature is rate limiting. If I'm expecting 500 visits per hour, Cloudflare will limit the requests if I suddenly get 50,000."
"The solution has different options that can be used to differentiate DDoS attacks."
"Cloudflare is by far the most effective solution that I have come across."
"Cloudflare DDoS is better than its competitors for its security, deployment, and scalability."
"The blocking feature is very good."
"This solution is easy to understand and easy to configure."
"The most valuable features of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) are the web gateway, load balancing, services, and applications available."
"The setup and functionality are fairly straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP AFM is all of my workers enjoy using it."
"It is stable."
"The product’s most valuable features are LTM and WAF."
"This product excells in every aspect from installation and the interface to providing superior network security."
"The solution is easily deployable and has great functionality."
"The product helps us provide security validation by protecting various applications from getting hacked."
"The onboarding process can be improved a little bit."
"Operating and tuning the product is difficult."
"The initial onboarding was causing us some confusion."
"The tool should provide on-premise versions. Currently, all versions are cloud-based."
"The free plan has limitations. For example, I can only set up three rules, and the application firewall is unavailable."
"Lacks a VPN feature to provide a secure connection to the data center."
"There are premium tier live service and lower tier live service, so we opted for the lower tier. But there is no medium tier where we pay a little extra and get a bit more service. So if that can be improved."
"The response time for support must be reduced."
"Deployment times vary according to the customer. It needs to be heavily configured. You need to look and you need to observe the behavior of the traffic before you can start configuring everything. It can take time."
"The pricing of the solution could be a little bit better."
"Currently, we have eighty F5s and we need some kind of management software. It would be very helpful."
"It doesn't compare to next generation firewalls"
"We would have preferred to have support when we first started"
"The web gateway feature could improve in F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)."
"The solution’s initial setup is not easy."
"F5 could provide a distributed cloud version."
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Cloudflare DDoS is ranked 4th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 12 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is ranked 8th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 21 reviews. Cloudflare DDoS is rated 8.6, while F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cloudflare DDoS writes "Perfect from my perspective; simple, user-friendly and easy to configure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) writes "Straightforward setup with very good granularity and performance". Cloudflare DDoS is most compared with AWS Shield, Prolexic, StormWall Website Anti-DDoS Protection, Arbor DDoS and Linode, whereas F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with Arbor DDoS, AWS Shield and Radware DefensePro. See our Cloudflare DDoS vs. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) report.
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