What is AWS Web Application Firewall?
AWS WAF helps you protect against common web exploits and bots that can affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect web applications from attacks by allowing you to configure rules that allow, block, or monitor (count) web requests based on conditions that you define. These conditions include IP addresses, HTTP headers, HTTP body, URI strings, SQL injection and cross-site scripting.
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88 Likeliness to Recommend
96 Plan to Renew
85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+96 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Effective Service
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API Security Testing
Risk Analytics
Data Leakage Prevention
OWASP Top 10
API Traffic Analysis
Reporting and Analytics
API Protection Against Automated Threats
Risk Mitigation
Schema Enforcement
Dynamic Application Policy Generation
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AWS Web Application Firewall Reviews
DHARRSAN A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Nov 2024
Easy security integration, Could be little pricey
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Web Application Firewall from other similar products?
AWS WAF offers customizable security rules and real-time metrics, Apigee excels in extensive analytics, usage monitoring, and managing API traffic with features like rate limiting and OAuth. Additionally, AWS WAF uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model, whereas Apigee typically follows a subscription-based model.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
One of the standout aspects of AWS WAF is its seamless integration with other AWS services. This integration allows users to easily deploy security measures across their applications hosted on AWS, such as automatically applying security rules to Amazon CloudFront or API Gateway
What do you dislike most about this product?
users may find it challenging to balance security and performance, as overly strict rules can inadvertently block legitimate traffic or degrade application performance
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
the pricing model, while pay-as-you-go, can lead to unpredictable costs if traffic spikes or if many custom rules are created, making budgeting for security expenses difficult.
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Saves Time
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Cons
- Vendor Friendly Policies
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- Role: Public Sector
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Oct 2024
Effective protection, but lacks advanced customize
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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Karen V.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Not for Profit
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Nov 2025
Scalable Shielding of Robust API.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Web Application Firewall from other similar products?
Thing that make it unique than others are very deep integration with AWS eco system and API's fine Grained control.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Favorite part of AWS WAF is its flexibility and the automation. Making script for creating rules and integrating it into deployment pipeline becomes very easy.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Setting it up and also tuning rules is little complex, For now, the only drawback i found.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Keep cost control in your mind and highly recommended from my side and one thing start with AWS managed ruled group for threats like SQLi, bots etc and after this build specific rules for your API.
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
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