We performed a comparison between Cloudflare and VMware Aria Automation based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Cloudflare offers features such as load balancing, DDoS protection, application management, SSL certificate protection, and a user-friendly GUI. On the other hand, VMware Aria Automation's strengths are in its extensive automation capabilities, DevOps features, preset policies, and customizable user frontend experience. Some users have suggested that Cloudflare could enhance their reporting and support response time. On the other hand, some users feel that VMware Aria Automation could benefit from simplifying multitenancy management, migration, and automation for non-experts.
Service and Support: Some customers appreciate Cloudflare's prompt and knowledgeable responses, while others suggest that they could improve their response times. On the other hand, VMware Aria Automation's technical support for vRA is highly rated by some customers, although others have reported less satisfactory experiences.
Ease of Deployment: Cloudflare's setup is simple and requires little maintenance, while VMware Aria Automation can be complicated and time-consuming, requiring a team of engineers for deployment and upkeep.
Pricing: Cloudflare is viewed as pricey, but offers unlimited bandwidth, while VMware Aria Automation can be confusing due to its various licensing models. Cloudflare is seen as a cost-effective option, but some users recommend a custom pricing model tied to usage for enterprise customers. VMware Aria Automation is costly, but can help save money by automating some tasks to maintain optimal performance and resource usage.
ROI: Cloudflare is a budget-friendly option for safeguarding websites and avoiding server overload and downtime. On the other hand, VMware Aria Automation streamlines processes and boosts efficiency by automating tasks, but the ROI may vary based on the industry and how it is used.
Comparison Results: Cloudflare is preferred over VMware Aria Automation for website protection, load balancing, and DDoS attack prevention. It offers a user-friendly GUI, flexibility in controlling configuration rules, and a proxy for hiding servers. While VMware Aria Automation offers extensive automation capabilities and DevOps features, improvements in multitenancy management, migration processes, and licensing models have been suggested.
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"Our most important features are those around entitlement, external exposure, vulnerabilities, and container security."
"The CSPM module has been the most effective. It was easy to deploy and covered all our accounts through APIs, requiring no agents. Wiz provides instant visibility into high-level risks that we need to address."
"With Wiz, we get timely alerts for leaked data or any vulnerabilities already existing in our environment."
"I like Wiz's reporting, and it's easy to do queries. For example, it's pretty simple to find out how many servers we have and the applications installed on each. I like Wiz's security graph because you can use it to see the whole organization even if you have multiple accounts."
"The automation roles are essential because we ultimately want to do less work and automate more. The dashboards are easy to read and visually pleasing. You can understand things quickly, which makes it easy for our other teams. The network and infrastructure teams don't know as much about security as we do, so it helps to have a tool that's accessible and nice to look at."
"Out of all the features, the one item that has been most valuable is the fact that Wiz puts into context all the pieces that create an issue, and applies a particular risk evaluation that helps us prioritize when we need to address a misconfiguration, vulnerability, or any issue that would put our environment into risk."
"The vulnerability management modules and the discovery and inventory are the most valuable features. Before using Wiz, it was a very manual process for both. After implementing it, we're able to get all of the analytics into a single platform that gives us visibility across all the systems in our cloud. We're able to correspond and understand what the vulnerability landscape looks like a lot faster."
"The solution is very good at mitigating threats."
"Centralized, full-featured DNS."
"The most valuable feature is the web application firewall."
"We're using dynamic components to build flexible pages to create and manage Git merge requests for code and reviews."
"Easier http to https redirect using page rules"
"The solution provides good load balancing and protection against DDoS attacks."
"The DDoS protection is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"What I like best about Cloudflare is that my company can use it to trace and manage applications and monitor traffic. The solution tells you if there's a spike in traffic. Cloudflare also sends you a link to check your equipment and deployment and track it through peering, so it's a valuable tool."
"We have integrated our CICD pipeline into an automatic catalog request through some API calls. It can request and provision new virtual machines behind the NSX load balancer, straight out of the CIDC pipeline and add those nodes to the load balancer, request SSL certs, do SSL termination at the load balancer so that it's not encrypted behind the scenes, all of which has really been helpful."
"Instead of only deploying templates, we can deploy blueprints which are easier on day-to-day operations."
"Scalability is perfect. We haven't had any issues."
"The solution is intuitive and user-friendly. E.g., you have less number of logins."
"The most valuable feature that we have is that it's able to deploy several different operating systems, it's able to deploy whatever we want. We can take a template, spin it up, revise it, save it back off, and be able to have that for other departments. We can have one for our Dev team and one for our research team which has some specific requirements. We can keep track of them and deploy things automatically."
"A lot of its DevOps for infrastructure capabilities improve reliability. Much effort was put in by some customers, like a large automobile manufacturer, a large telecom, and two large banks, to achieve a certain level of capabilities in this space. These DevOps for infrastructure capabilities have saved time for developers. In one use case for a large marketplace, a typical release cycle took about 80 hours and was brought down to three hours by automating deployment for developers. The quicker that deployments happen, the faster that they can do their product release cycles."
"Our QA department is able to spin up a new instance of Windows virtual machine and test whatever use case they have, then turn it back down whenever they are done."
"The feature of automated balancing which implemented between two data centers solely for the purpose of a recovery plan is valuable."
"Wiz's reporting capabilities could be refined a bit. They are making headway on that, but more executive-style dashboards would be nice. They just implemented a community aspect where you can share documents and feedback. This was something users had been requesting for a while. They are listening to customer feedback and making changes."
"We would like to see improvements to executive-level reporting and data reporting in general, which we understand is being rolled out to the platform."
"We wish there were a way, beyond providing visibility and automated remediation, to wait on a given remediation, due to a critical aspect, such as the cost associated with a particular upgrade... We would like to see preventive controls that can be applied through Wiz to protect against vulnerabilities that we're not going to be able to remediate immediately."
"The only thing that needs to be improved is the number of scans per day."
"The reporting isn't that great. They have executive summaries, but it's only a compliance report that maps all current issues to specific controls. Whether you look at one subscription or project, regardless of the size, you will get a multipage report on how the issues in that account map to that control. Our CSO isn't going to read through that. He won't filter that out or show that to his leadership and say, "Here's what we're doing." It isn't a helpful report. They're working on it, but it's a poor executive summary."
"The only small pain point has been around some of the logging integrations. Some of the complexities of the script integrations aren't supported with some of the more automated infrastructure components. So, it's not as universal. For example, they have great support for cloud formation and other services, but if you're using another type of management utility or governance language for your infrastructure-as-code automation components, it becomes a little bit trickier to navigate that."
"We're looking at some of the data compliance stuff that they've got Jon offer. I know they're looking at container security, which we gonna be looking at next."
"The solution's container security could be improved."
"We are a product integrator and reseller, and we would like to have a better partner relationship, similar to a channel sales relationship. Sometimes we are on our own or get diverted by Cloudflare because they have direct sales, which competes with us and makes it difficult to build a relationship with this company since we want to be an MSP or a managed service provider for the solution."
"It should be easier to collect the logs with companies like Sumo. However, based on my discussions with the salespeople, I understand that's how they make their money. With the enterprise product, they want people doing those kinds of enterprise features to do the logging. They want them to pay a lot of money, and that's where I have an issue with them. That should be a default. You should be able to get the log no matter what. The logging should be universal."
"The solution could use more analytics on the backend to give us more insights into everything. More reports would be helpful."
"Cloudflare's console should be made more user-friendly."
"Although I think it's quite good, it doesn't provide me with all the features I would expect to have if I were using Imperva."
"Sometimes their more advanced caching tools can cause higher first-byte times and problems with JavaScript."
"The reporting can definitely be improved to offer a lot more explanation on something that may have happened or has actually happened."
"Cloudflare does not have an on-premise solution. If they had different approaches they could be better suited to accommodate more customers, such as on-premise and hybrid deployments. For example, hybrid deployments would be useful where you could move the traffic from the enterprise to the cloud."
"It does go down from time to time. We have some issues with the appliances sometimes and we have to do reboots in the middle of the day. That affects the ability for them to deploy."
"The upgrade process 6.x to 7.3 was a significant effort. I'm hoping that 7.3 to the next version is much smoother."
"Upgrades are always a pain."
"We upgraded twice. The last upgrade was a bit problematic."
"It has some limitations for scalability, especially for remote data center management. For some components, everything need to be centralized."
"We had a lot of issues at first. Especially with doing any kind of upgrades, it was a complete tear-down and a complete rebuild of all the Blueprints. The upgrade process was not easy or intuitive at all. But it seems to be getting better."
"It was a complex setup. We had to use the consultant from VMware to make the solution work well."
"I'm not wanting any particular feature; but there should be cost reductions. VMware comes at a high cost, and that's why we are in the process of transitioning to a more affordable alternative."
Cloudflare is ranked 11th in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 56 reviews while VMware Aria Automation is ranked 15th in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 133 reviews. Cloudflare is rated 8.4, while VMware Aria Automation is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cloudflare writes "It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Automation writes "Allows for a lot of orchestration or customization within our environment to suit our customers". Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, AWS Shield and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, whereas VMware Aria Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Morpheus and vCenter Orchestrator. See our Cloudflare vs. VMware Aria Automation report.
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