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AWS Web Application Firewall

Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10
Category
AWS Web Application Firewall
8.1 /10

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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AWS Web Application Firewall Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

88 Likeliness to Recommend

96 Plan to Renew

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+96 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love AWS Web Application Firewall?

0% Negative
2% Neutral
98% Positive

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Trustworthy
  • Effective Service

Feature Ratings

Average 81

API Security Testing

86

Risk Analytics

85

Data Leakage Prevention

83

OWASP Top 10

82

API Traffic Analysis

82

Reporting and Analytics

80

API Protection Against Automated Threats

80

Risk Mitigation

79

Schema Enforcement

75

Dynamic Application Policy Generation

75

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Ease of Implementation

85

Quality of Features

85

Breadth of Features

84

Ease of Customization

83

Usability and Intuitiveness

82

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

81

Availability and Quality of Training

81

Ease of IT Administration

81

Business Value Created

80

Ease of Data Integration

80

Vendor Support

78

AWS Web Application Firewall Reviews

DHARRSAN A.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2024

Easy security integration, Could be little pricey

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

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
  • Role: Public Sector
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2024

Effective protection, but lacks advanced customize

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Karen V.

  • Role: Industry Specific Role
  • Industry: Not for Profit
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2025

Scalable Shielding of Robust API.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

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