F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect vs. F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
Securely connects distributed apps and services across public cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. Utilizing Infrastructure as Code, App Connect provisions resources and maintain uniform policies across multiple sites.N/A
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF leverages F5's Advanced WAF technology, delivering WAF-as-a-Service and combining signature- and behavior-based protection for web applications. It acts as an intermediate proxy to inspect application requests and responses to block and mitigate a broad spectrum of risks stemming from the OW ASP Top 10, persistent and coordinated threat campaigns, bots, and layer 7 DoS.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Community Pulse
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F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect
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The easy of deploy
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-F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect provides more granular security policies with features like DOS, WAF etc and others lack
-F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect provides high performance global network and other rely on public internet and impact is latency and it gives F5 …
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It's pretty clear that these two are fine within a single ecosystem but fall short when the architecture spans more than one cloud vendor.
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
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Imperva Application Firewall
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Do not change IP for DNS distribution to zones around the world
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waf de azure, pero El waf de azure es mas para empresas pequenas,

Azure WAF, but Azure WAF is more for small businesses
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F5 Distributed Cloud API Security
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CoreSecurity
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F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)
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good product road map catering to industry needs and requirements
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Azure CDN and Palo Alto Networks Advanced URL Filtering
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for continuty capacity and funcionality
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In my previous company we used Akamai WAF. I know that in my previous company with usage of Akamai there were some issues, but as far as technically how they compare, I couldn't really tell you.
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I have not evaluated any other product like this.
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This plaform has advanced threat detection technology and mitigation of this tool is also great that's why why it helps us in securing from many attacks including damages from 7 attcks, BOTS Mitigations and DDoS Protection. Also this plaform has customised security management …
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F5 Distributed Cloud WAF allowed us to protect internal applications without public exposure, edge routing, or cloud dependency. We gained robust protection without exposing internal systems to the internet and F5 gave us the flexibility, security, and control we needed for a …
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When comparing F5 Distributed Cloud WAF, Akamai, Cloudflare, and Fastly, Fastly generally stands out for its raw speed and focus on developer-friendly features, while Cloudflare is often considered the best balance of speed, security, and ease of use, making it a popular choice …
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I could not find fortiwaf in the list. We have to bypass frequently.
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Better WAF protection
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F5 BIG-IP DNS
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Akamai
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Ease of use. Cost. Features ability to use managed service, in cloud provider and on prem.
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Akamai, Sophos Cloud Optix and Azure Analysis Services
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It's comparable to other products like NetScaler and Silverpeak but was easier to implement.
Best Alternatives
F5 Distributed Cloud App ConnectF5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
Small Businesses
NGINX
NGINX
Score 9.2 out of 10
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
NGINX
NGINX
Score 9.2 out of 10
F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
NGINX
NGINX
Score 9.2 out of 10
F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
7.8
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8.9
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Usability
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10.0
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Performance
7.0
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
I thought F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect worked great to bridge the gap between our gcp environment and on prem. We were lacking in cloud funtionality for native load balancers but XC really connected the dots. We would most likely need a hybrid environment until the irules functionality improves for a few of our apps but most could be migrated over the XC.
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It is doing its job effectively, and its scalability is superb. So, if you have a mixed environment with cloud and on-premise systems to protect this product, provide a solution to the challenge. However, its management is more suited to DevOps teams rather than to the ones responsible for on-premise systems, making the management a bit more complex.
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Pros
  • Ease of use - standing up a new site took very little time, less then an hour.
  • Connecting the dots - the ease at standing up a load balancer and advertising it on CEs was simple and straight forward. Once you get familiar with the field layout it's very comparable to BIG-IP
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  • Layer seven attacks are becoming far more common. Traditionally it was always layered three, layer four, where you get an additional firewall, but with the application layer attacks become more frequent, more popular, et cetera. So having the web application firewall protecting us, and then with the recent Log4j, that's the most recent use case when it gave us that instant level of protection whilst we remediated the Log4j that we had that and the F5 Distributed Cloud WAF was protecting us.
  • I have a great relationship with the account manager, my account manager, and I think he drives the best price possible, um, for me, and I'm happy with that price.
  • F5 Distributed Cloud WAF is always innovating and evolving.
  • We run a very competitive proof value where we run numerous competitors against each other, and then we evaluate from that and then make the selection, and F5 Distributed Cloud WAF was the winner.
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Cons
  • More of a unified experience as Gartner released their latest sort of sassy trends. A lot of consumers are looking at a more unified experience and that's the sort of compilation of both management and data planes into a single things like single UI, easier management experience for the corporations.
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  • Better integration between different F5 solutions
  • Fail over between devices feels unstable if there are thousands of objects attached to the traffic-group. Needs to be more simpler.
  • We have seen issues with malicious user detection where we have used open protocols due to legacy applications, and have been caught with legitimate traffic being blocked.
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Likelihood to Renew
At this point it has become too focal to our operations. An entire department could collapse if we dropped it now or in the near future. My experiences as mentioned in the previous questions tell of its gravity
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I would continue using F5 Distributed Cloud WAF because I am highly satisfied with its robust and comprehensive features that effectively protect our applications from evolving cyber threats. The advanced AI capabilities enhance threat detection and response, providing proactive security. Additionally, the excellent customer support ensures quick resolution of any issues, making the overall experience reliable and efficient. Trust in the manufacturer’s innovation and continuous updates further motivates me to keep this solution as a core part of our security infrastructure.
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Usability
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I believe is a solution that was designed from the start to be simple and easy to use. Coming from Imperva, it simply eased the burden and complexity of managing and securing our apps on different environments (cloud and on-prem). It easy to scale and very quick to deploy (as a cloud waf should be), provide us with DevOps integrations, visibility and automatic insights from multiple events that guarantee peace of mind for us analysts and opp managers.
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Reliability and Availability
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Seems no issue
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Performance
From what we have been able to test load/responsiveness is quick and when we've tested out reporting and troubleshooting modules they have pulled the correct information in quick timeframes. We haven't been able to test out any software integration with Splunk of other software on our system since we are still in early POC stages but from what we've been told we should be able to implement that in our environment
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Unnoticed slowness
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Support Rating
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I never contacted support for this product.
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Online Training
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Online training saves me lots of time
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Implementation Rating
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Just make sure you origin servers have F5 IPs allowed.
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Alternatives Considered
-F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect provides more granular security policies with features like DOS, WAF etc and others lack -F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect provides high performance global network and other rely on public internet and impact is latency and it gives F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect a better user experience
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This plaform has advanced threat detection technology and mitigation of this tool is also great that's why why it helps us in securing from many attacks including damages from 7 attcks, BOTS Mitigations and DDoS Protection. Also this plaform has customised security management policy to tailor security measures according to our specific needs.
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Scalability
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Dont see any issue so far
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Return on Investment
  • Inconsistent policies and procedures and now its all seem to be sorted and now requires less support
  • Deployment cycle time was reduced and achieves a faster adoption of newly added contents
  • Saved migration cost and more gave durability to the existing setup
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  • This helps us quickly push out applications and security to our applications. It is so simple to perform these tasks in F5 Distributed Cloud WAF.
  • We are also using the MSP side of it so we have support and are able to have F5 manage our solutions that can save us time.
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