F5 Distributed Cloud Services vs F5 Silverline Managed Services comparison

"Does a good job preventing web application attacks."

"The rate limiting features and customizations in terms of URL match and applying policies are valuable to me."

"The product has a valuable security control functionality."

"We like that there's load balancing, firewall capabilities, DDoS protection, et cetera, all covered by Cloudflare."

"It is a SaaS solution unlike much of the competition."

"Cloudflare WAF provides protection through rules and functionalities like Cloudflare's SDRAP."

"It is configurable via API."

"Caching is the most valuable feature of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall."

"In a multi-cloud or distributed cloud, there are many protection possibilities from data to web application or API protection, including bot mitigation."

"F5 is known for being the best load balancer in the market. Customers with an existing module can easily adopt additional modules without investing in new hardware."

"Technical support from F5 is good compared to Cisco and HP."

"The main benefit is Web App Security, offering a complete security package from DDoS to web application firewall, API protection, and bot mitigation."

"The initial setup is straightforward."

"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 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 best advantage of F5 Silverline Managed Services is that it is easy to use."

"The stability of the solution is very good."

"The most valuable features are the configuration and configuring the process."

"The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is it becomes similar to a distributed architecture."

"Cloudflare Web Application Firewall should improve visibility for a customer."

"The learning curve was steep initially."

"The platform's control features related to real-time authentication and response time need improvement."

"The solution's learning curve can still be further reduced"

"Support can be challenging at times."

"They have some limitations with third-party integrations."

"Its stability could be better."

"We have noticed some latency when the call goes through the firewall. That could be improved."

"The main issue is integration with other parts or products of F5, like on-premise WAF."

"Last year there was a downtime of 30 minutes across the cloud distributed console, and that was the only impact observed."

"The pricing could be adjusted to better meet the needs of typical customers in regions like Poland, where the product is considered too expensive."

"The main issue is integration with other parts or products of F5, like on-premise WAF. There are some problems, mainly from the perspective of implementation and customer expectations, which sometimes differ from reality."

"The price is high in comparison to other products."

"Automating processes could enhance F5 Silverline Managed Services."

"We'd like more AI to be used. Right now, they don't use it enough."

"F5 Silverline Managed Services can improve by reducing the price."

"Improvements could include the creation of highly optimized profiles, optimization deployments, and compression profiles for better performance."

"The navigation is difficult to use."

"There is room for improvement in the stability of the solution."

"F5 Silverline Managed Services can improve by adding features that Palo Alto has."

"The solution's pricing option needs to be more transparent for enterprise clients."

"The annual licensing fee is $10,000 USD."

"It starts at $20 and can easily go up to $200 monthly"

"The solution is expensive."

"Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is more affordable than other solutions."

"We pay $210 per month for CloudFlare WAF."

"Cloudflare offers different types of subscriptions for businesses, enterprises, and personal users, and the pricing is negotiable."

"The pricing model is very straightforward compared to the competition. You just pay per month for the product and usage."

"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."