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F5 Rules for AWS WAF vs Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 1, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.2
F5 Rules for AWS WAF enhanced security, reduced manual efforts, decreased malicious traffic, and improved application performance with ROI benefits.
Sentiment score
6.8
Prisma Cloud boosts productivity and security through automation, reducing vulnerabilities, saving time, and streamlining compliance for organizations.
I observed around 35 to 45% reduction in malicious application layer traffic reaching the origin, which helped protect the backend systems and reduce risk exposure.
Technical Team Lead - Content Security at Valuepoint Systems
One measurable benefit was a reduction in manual effort required for managing and tuning web application protection policies because the managed rule capabilities and centralized visibility simplified the day-to-day operations.
Senior Technical Consultant at a tech consulting company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I did see a return on my investment with F5 Rules for AWS WAF because I was able to detect attacks earlier, and because of this, my resources were not scaling continuously, thus saving costs on resources.
Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
It eliminates the need for additional hardware, making it a financially and technically sound investment.
Partner at Quasys
Reputation and data security are the two most important things to a financial institution.
Works at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees
We may have prevented a security breach with remediation of the findings.
Security Solutions Architect - Cloud Security Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.9
F5 Rules for AWS WAF have positive customer service, but users desire quicker solutions and more proactive recommendations.
Sentiment score
7.1
Prisma Cloud support quality varies; clients experience quick resolutions or slow responses, with satisfaction depending on region and support level.
They clearly explained what the best options are based on my use case, which helped us shortlist what is required.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
The support team generally demonstrates strong technical knowledge around application security and traffic management, along with the AWS integrations.
Senior Technical Consultant at a tech consulting company with 5,001-10,000 employees
For critical issues, the response time is quite good, and the support teams are knowledgeable in handling rule tuning, false positives, and other security-related incidents.
Technical Team Lead - Content Security at Valuepoint Systems
They can respond with technical documentation or pass on the case to the next level because it requires the development of a new feature or changing a feature due to a bug.
Technical Lead at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Anywhere we raise a tech case, they revert back within an hour.
Cloud Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
I would give them 10 out of 10.
Sector Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.4
F5 Rules for AWS WAF provides scalable, cloud-native security, managing traffic spikes efficiently without compromising performance or requiring manual adjustments.
Sentiment score
7.5
Prisma Cloud offers scalable, flexible multi-cloud support, efficiently accommodating large enterprises with performance, albeit needing credit purchases for optimal use.
In my experience, F5 Rules for AWS WAF handles traffic spikes and high request volumes efficiently, including during attack scenarios such as bot surges or application layer attacks.
Technical Team Lead - Content Security at Valuepoint Systems
Easily handling traffic spikes and high-volume attacks without any manual intervention.
Cloud DevOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It supports scaling without significantly affecting application performance even during high traffic periods or sudden spikes in requests.
Senior Technical Consultant at a tech consulting company with 5,001-10,000 employees
There aren't any limits to Prisma Cloud's scalability.
Senior Security Consultant at helpag
Scalability within the credit limit is good. It is 100%.
Cloud security architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I would rate it a ten out of ten for scalability.
Cloud Security Support at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.6
F5 Rules for AWS WAF offers reliable performance, seamless integration, and minimal intervention, outperforming native AWS rules in effectiveness and coverage.
Sentiment score
7.9
Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is highly reliable and trustworthy, with minimal downtime and effective maintenance communication.
F5 Rules for AWS WAF is consistently updated and applied without impacting application availability, and it handles high traffic volumes effectively, even during attack scenarios.
Technical Team Lead - Content Security at Valuepoint Systems
Especially in terms of policy enforcement, traffic inspection, and integration with AWS environments.
Senior Technical Consultant at a tech consulting company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Providing comprehensive managed rules coverage and reducing operational overhead compared to the AWS native managed rules.
DGM at Airtel Digital
I would rate it a ten out of ten for stability.
Cloud Security Engineer (Team lead) at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The cloud environment is dynamic, so the tool must be dynamic.
Cloud Security Delivery Associate Manager at Accenture
We had to build the system twice because of environmental issues.
Security Delivery Manager at Accenture
 

Room For Improvement

Users want simpler tuning, AI-driven optimization, better documentation, cloud integration, reduced costs, and improved reporting for AWS WAF.
Prisma Cloud needs user interface, integration, automation, cost, and support improvements, with better multi-cloud support and visibility.
To stay safer from a security perspective, continuous improvisation in these security rules is required to ensure we are always up to date with new attacks.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
The most useful change for F5 Rules for AWS WAF would be rule-level allow listing and exception management.
Senior Technical Lead QA at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Fine-tuning it to match specific application behavior can sometimes be complex and time-consuming, especially for teams without deep WAF expertise.
Technical Team Lead - Content Security at Valuepoint Systems
Prisma Cloud is an excellent tool.
Technical Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We could have deployed the runtime monitoring with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, but within our organization at our company, it was very difficult to find who would be the owner for the alerts.
Cyber Security Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Even though documentation was available, it took a while for a new person to understand what integration meant, what will be achieved after the integration, or how the integration needed to be done on the Azure or AWS side.
Technical Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Setup Cost

F5 Rules for AWS WAF offers cost-effective advanced protection and easy integration, justifying its premium over basic sets.
Enterprise buyers find Prisma Cloud expensive but valuable, with flexible pricing benefiting multi-cloud enterprises despite additional costs.
It has competitive pricing.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
There is no significant setup cost involved, as it is a managed service that can be quickly integrated into the existing AWS WAF configuration without additional infrastructure.
Technical Team Lead - Content Security at Valuepoint Systems
F5 Rules for AWS WAF is not very costly and is reasonable, with enterprises being able to afford the cost.
Cloud DevOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The cost was not on the higher side.
Technical Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
If you are using a single tool like Prisma Cloud, with a single license, you can monitor all environments, such as Google Cloud, Azure, AWS, and Oracle Cloud.
Cloud Security Delivery Associate Manager at Accenture
The pricing is on par with the competitors.
Security Solutions Architect - Cloud Security Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

F5 Rules for AWS WAF offers advanced threat mitigation, customizable security, and seamless AWS integration for enhanced protection and efficiency.
Prisma Cloud enhances cloud security with real-time monitoring, automation, and CSPM for effective DevOps and multi-cloud protection.
Now, looking at these rule sets, they ensure that our origin or our application content and code, as well as the application itself or its API, are secure enough, always.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
F5 Rules for AWS WAF rule sets are highly effective in detecting and mitigating OWASP Top 10 attacks such as SQL injection, XSS, and command injection, which significantly strengthens application security.
Technical Team Lead - Content Security at Valuepoint Systems
Using F5 Rules for AWS WAF has positively impacted my organization by making our AI-integrated application more secure from bot attacks, restricted size bodies, automated rate blocking for DDoS, and managed rules, especially as security has become a common concern across the industry.
Cloud DevOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
From the compliance and governance perspective, we can create custom policies or custom compliance and governance rules as per various industries or compliance standards, such as HIPAA, PCI DSS, and NIST.
Cloud Security Delivery Associate Manager at Accenture
One solution can cover runtime for EC2 systems, containers, and Fargate.
Security Delivery Manager at Accenture
We can see any IAM-related risks, any discovered vulnerabilities, any incidents, or any network-level issues.
Technical Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

F5 Rules for AWS WAF
Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)
14th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Business Rules Management (3rd)
Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto N...
Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)
7th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
114
Ranking in other categories
Container Security (2nd), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (2nd), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (2nd), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category, the mindshare of F5 Rules for AWS WAF is 0.4%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is 1.8%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Application Firewall (WAF) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks1.8%
F5 Rules for AWS WAF0.4%
Other97.8%
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
 

Featured Reviews

Vibin Thomas - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Team Lead - Content Security at Valuepoint Systems
Advanced protection has reduced web attacks and improves application performance and operations
One area where F5 Rules for AWS WAF can be improved is in simplifying the tuning process. While F5 Rules for AWS WAF is powerful, fine-tuning it to match specific application behavior can sometimes be complex and time-consuming, especially for teams without deep WAF expertise. Another improvement could be enhanced visibility and reporting. Although AWS WAF provides logs, having more intuitive and built-in dashboards or clearer categorization of rule triggers would make it easier to quickly identify and analyze attack patterns. Additionally, expanding the capabilities around bot management and behavior analysis would be beneficial compared to some dedicated bot management solutions. More advanced detection techniques could further strengthen the protection against sophisticated automated traffic. Finally, providing more predefined templates or best practice recommendations for different application types would help speed up the deployment and reduce the initial configuration effort.
reviewer2776578 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Image scanning has supported consistent security practices during cloud deployment
On a scale of ten, we would say people are happy with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks for the part we use. People are okay with it. We probably would give an eight. We don't give ten because if we don't use the other parts of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, it's because it was difficult to implement from an operational point of view. We could have deployed the runtime monitoring with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, but within our organization at our company, it was very difficult to find who would be the owner for the alerts. People have other tools and in the end, we don't use the full capabilities of a product that we pay for. It's partially related to the difficulty to integrate Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks runtime in our company's support process. We don't use the real-time monitoring part of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks. We don't know about the automated remediation feature of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
33%
Comms Service Provider
16%
Computer Software Company
6%
Energy/Utilities Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business37
Midsize Enterprise21
Large Enterprise58
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for F5 Rules for AWS WAF?
My experience with the pricing, setup cost, and licensing for F5 Rules for AWS WAF was good with purchasing and the setup cost.
What needs improvement with F5 Rules for AWS WAF?
The additional costs for F5 Rules for AWS WAF are quite high, as F5 managed rules require a separate subscription on top of the standard AWS WAF charges; it would be great if it would be pre-integr...
What is your primary use case for F5 Rules for AWS WAF?
F5 Rules for AWS WAF manages the security rule set by applying the rules and setting the block directly in AWS WAF to provide advanced protection against web application attacks, bots, threats, and...
What is your primary use case for Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks?
Prisma Cloud helps support DevSecOps methodologies, making those responsibilities easier to manage.
What Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform do you recommend?
We like Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, since it offers us incredible visibility into our entire cloud system. We are able to easily see where our container vulnerabilities lie and and where cl...
What do you think of Aqua Security vs Prisma Cloud?
Aqua Security is easy to use and very manageable. Its main focus is on Kubernetes and Docker. Security is a very valuable feature and their speed of integration is very good. The initial setup was ...
 

Also Known As

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Prisma Public Cloud, RedLock Cloud 360, RedLock, Twistlock, Aporeto
 

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Sample Customers

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Amgen, Genpact, Western Asset, Zipongo, Proofpoint, NerdWallet, Axfood, 21st Century Fox, Veeva Systems, Reinsurance Group of America
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