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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90 Likeliness to Recommend
93 Plan to Renew
84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+94 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
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AWS Web Application Firewall Reviews
Mark S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2022
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What differentiates AWS Web Application Firewall from other similar products?
Amazon Web Services provides AWS WAF, which has customisable rules to stop known harmful behaviors and an API for developing and deploying online security rules, to protect web applications against malicious behavior that could impair their functionality and performance. l. A lot of functions offered by WAF will secure your applications.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It is simple to connect to any CDN or Cloud front, and by utilizing web ACL, we can design infinitely scalable, personalized, and conditional rules that will allow web application hosting material be protected from web attacks. Protection from Web-based attacks and harmful payloads created at the application layer is offered by WAF.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Shield Advanced is an alternative, but there are other important third-party solutions like Cloudflare that offer superior DDoS protection, and I would like aws to improve their waf effectiveness. Once the rules are set up, it can sometimes take some time until they go live, especially if you add more rules.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
To ensure that your system is protected from external threats or significant attacks, many changes can be carried out, such as rate limiter rules AWS managed rules, or custom rules. It offers the infrastructure fundamental protection against anticipated threats like cross-site scripting assaults, SQL injection attacks, simple DDoS attacks, blocking already blacklisted ips, etc.
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- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing