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AWS WAF Overview

What is AWS WAF?

AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect web applications from common web exploits that could affect application availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.

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AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect web applications from common web exploits that could affect application availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.


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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"AWS WAF - Reliable Web Application Firewall"
1) AWS WAF is very easy to deploy and requires no additional software installation, DNS, config, or SSL/TLS certifications management. 2) We can a...
Igor Z.
IZ
Igor Z.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Good Firewall Service"
The simplicity of configuration and management
Rahul S.
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Rahul S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Best Firewall Solution for your application"
Earlier we used to get millions of requests on our APIs in few seconds that was not possible from users, it seems like DDOS attack, which was takin...

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Time to Implement

3 months

Return on Investment

9 months

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Prashant G.
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Cloud Network Security
Information Technology and Services
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What do you like best about AWS WAF?

AWS native WAF can be easily integrated with Application Load Balancer with which we can allow Internet bound Inbound traffic directly on ALB. Same ALB can be protected by AWS Shield, with this we can achieve DDoS L3, L4 & L7 protection. Also AWS WAF supports third party vendor managed rules i.e. F5, Imperva etc to add in WEB ACL Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS WAF?

AWS managed WAF rules has limitations of protecting against OWASP top 10 attack pattern i.e. if you change SQL injection attack pattern, AWS Managed WAF rules failed to block it. AWS needs to work on such sort of things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?

AWS WAF supports native protection of L7 layer and if we integrate with other AWS native service's like ALB, AWS Shield this gives better protection. AWS supports usgae of third party managed WAF rules, because which we can take advantage of big third party vendors like F5, Imperva, Cloudflare etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sneha P.
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Network Engineer
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What do you like best about AWS WAF?

AWS WAF is the web based firewall which has built-in DDOS attack protection to stop any DDOS attacks. Also, the AWS support team quickly responds to the queries or concerns raised. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS WAF?

There is no dislike about AWS WAF as it has good features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?

The AWS WAF is the good application in securing the network where we can choose the deploying the rules by creating API rules. Also, it protects the web traffic of the applications securely with integration of various services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS WAF?

We are using AWS WAF for securing our e-learing web applcation where we have defiened webACL rules to block unwanted traffic which can be suspicious. quite easy to impliment also provides live monitoring of traffic and can be connected with other aws services like aws cloudwatch using which user can monitor and analyze traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS WAF?

I don't think their is much to dislike about AWS WAF but still implementation can be time consuming, other than that it's one of the best web application firewall which offers pay as you go pricing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?

AWS WAF acts as a protection layer between external internet traffic and our application using which we can customize rules to allow or block traffic which allows us to protect our web application from any kind of attack like DDos or Dos which ensures avaiability of application, we are using it in our E-learning platform to protect our website from any external attacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gaurav B.
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Associate - Finance Control
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What do you like best about AWS WAF?

We can set a standard of rules and because of this we can save time even though it has great inbuilt rules. It has a easy tracking and managing bots and blocking of bots function. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS WAF?

It is a good product but a bit expensive compared to its peers and also end to end encryption for multi customer are issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?

As we have implemented it in our systems, it has given us an immense satisfaction in terms of web security which previously used to be breached and was an hactic issue for us to Solve and a bit time consuming Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS WAF?

Easily configure WAF to filter, monitor and block any malicious traffic traveling to the web application and API Gateways ensuring the traffic is safe and identify and stop any malicious traffic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS WAF?

it is not possible to extend AWS WAF for applications built outside AWS (on-premise or any other cloud). AWS WAF cannot be deployed directly to EC2 instances and can only be associated with ALB , CloudFront & API Gateway Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using WAF mainly with API Gateway in our projects for rate limiting, IP filtering thus help avoid common web exploits like SQL injection and XSS attacks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Naga Venkata Satish Kumar B.
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What do you like best about AWS WAF?

AWS WAF is a pay-as-you-go service so we will pay for what we use this is scalable reliable and easy to use. We continue using the CLI Command line interface, which does not require GUI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS WAF?

If is it pay as you go service this will be expensive for high-traffic websites and it will generate a lot of traffic where the bill spikes will be high and expensive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?

The web applications that we build require high secure environment AWS WAF helps us in building secure and safe applications to our customer needs this helps us business growth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ankit J.
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Cyber Security Specialist
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What do you like best about AWS WAF?

Very easy to deploy and configure. There are managed rules and custom rule creation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS WAF?

Log should contain more details about attack type and reason for block. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have deployed WAF with ALB, and protecting application againt OWASP top10. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Igor Z.
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Senior DevOps Manager
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What do you like best about AWS WAF?

The simplicity of configuration and management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS WAF?

I actually does not have anything I don't like Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?

The protection from threats and as a Maintenance Page Firewall Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sitam S.
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Devops Engineer
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What do you like best about AWS WAF?

This helps to prevent any attacks on application and since it is AWS managed service it reduces the effort to setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS WAF?

This brings cost

False positives like any other security system.

Setup is complicated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?

Features like

monitoring and logging

Custom rules setup

Easy to manage complicated rules Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS WAF?

Organization and progression of key elements needed to build your WAF. The rules engine is easy to implement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS WAF?

I dislike that I have to do this, but its a necessary evil Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS WAF:

great if you use cloudfront Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?

securing multiple cloudfront sites for internal use over the Internets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.