AWS WAF vs. F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF

AWS WAF

29 Reviews and Ratings

F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF

28 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWS WAF	Score7.5 out of 10	N/A	Amazon Web Services offers AWS WAF (web application firewall) to protect web applications from malicious behavior that might impede the applications functioning and performance, with customizable rules to prevent known harmful behaviors and an API for creating and deploying web security rules.	$0.60 per 1 million requests
F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF	Score9.3 out of 10	N/A	F5 Networks offers the Advanced Web Application Firewall (WAF) to provide bot defense, advanced application protection, anti-bot SDK, and other features.	N/A

Pricing

AWS WAF

F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF

Resource Type - Request: $0.60
per 1 million requests
Resource Type - Rule: $1.00
per month (prorated hourly)
Resource Type - Web ACL: $5.00
per month (prorated hourly)

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Pricing Offerings
AWS WAF	F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	AWS WAF	F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Oscar Martinez DevOps in Information Technology at Aval Digital Labs (Financial Services, 201-500 employees) Chose AWS WAF The integration with AWS services is pretty straight forward and provides a lot of functionalities other products don't. AWS Managed Rules can be used for easy setup with high protection options or Custom Rules can be created to costomize WAF to fit our needs. Incentivized Helpful? maría jose gonzalez ortiz Software Developer in Information Technology at KANA Software (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees) Chose AWS WAF Unlike these other AWS tools, WAF provides real-time traffic control, rules that can be customized according to the needs of the user, and is based on an implementation in the cloud which avoids the use of memory on computers as well as an account with a very affordable cost … Incentivized Helpful?	F5 Ilian Ivanov Security Engineer, WAF in Engineering at GTT (Telecommunications, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF F5 WAF provides much more control and has a lot of features that can be used to protect your applications. You can have granular configuration settings per application and disable attack signatures on very specific scenarios whenever is needed. Also, the logs are very detailed … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	AWS WAF	F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (9 ratings)	9.4 (11 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)