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AWS Web Application Firewall

Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.3 /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.

90 Likeliness to Recommend

93 Plan to Renew

84 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.

+94 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
5% Neutral
95% Positive

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Trustworthy
  • Efficient Service

Feature Ratings

Average 82

API Security Testing

86

Risk Analytics

86

OWASP Top 10

86

Dynamic Application Policy Generation

83

API Traffic Analysis

80

Reporting and Analytics

79

Risk Mitigation

77

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Quality of Features

91

Ease of Implementation

90

Breadth of Features

89

Business Value Created

83

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

82

Ease of IT Administration

82

Availability and Quality of Training

80

Usability and Intuitiveness

79

Ease of Data Integration

77

Ease of Customization

77

Vendor Support

77

AWS Web Application Firewall Reviews

Mark S.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Dec 2022

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Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

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.

Pros

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