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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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Recent AWS WAF Reviews

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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.
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Igor Z.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Good Firewall Service"
The simplicity of configuration and management
Rahul S.
RS
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

Average Discount

8%

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Rishabh J.
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IT Security Risk Assessor
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about AWS WAF?

It can be easily associated with any Cloud front or CDN and using web ACL we can define very condition easily and can be customized and highly scalable rules which will help web application hosting content can be secured from web attacks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS WAF?

Once the rules are configured it takes time to get live and sometimes if you put more rules, it could also raise certain performance problems as well, which they can improve Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

WAF is providing security against Web attacks and malicious payloads which are crafted on the application layer of the application and also being an architect its deployment helps any one to achieve good result as same case with me Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sachin S.
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Application Development Analyst
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about AWS WAF?

Few months back, when log4j issue was there, multiple applications and services were down, whereas AWS WAF has already upgraded itself, to avoid any loss. Moreover, it is convenient to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS WAF?

The AWS console for WAF settings changes is good, but when it comes to IAAC updation, I find it a little challenging.

I think, AWS has to work on this WAF settings change by using Code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

AWS has always secured my application from unwanted traffic and bugs online. I have been it's user for more then a year now. It has worked excellent since then. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kartik S.
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Information Security Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about AWS WAF?

The best part of this tool is that its easy to deploy,always on top to release new signatures for zero days. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS WAF?

I am not happy with the number of false positives they generate and feel the product is priced a bit high as compared to others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's helping our firm to block top owasp attacks and keeping us compliant with security standards Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ramadevi R.
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Programmer analyst
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about AWS WAF?

Amazon WAF(Web Application Firewall) offers best security over the applications that are being deployed in specific instances of the client. The client instances in which the Amazon WAF is installed, will act like a Proxy security system, thus securing all the activities from outside parties. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS WAF?

The thing which I dislike in Amazon WAF is that, it offers security only to the web applications., that too., Those applications which are deployed only on AWS can be protected from third party vendors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

When compared to other security services offered by various providers, Amazon WAF gives a highest level of compliance snd security to the web applications on the internet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
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What do you like best about AWS WAF?

Extremely fast & easy to setup

Wide range of rules available through marketplace

Highly scalable & no downtime

Pay as per you use model with reasonable charges

Excellent support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS WAF?

Logging functionality is limited

Bot protection is not upto the mark

Since there is no managed services available, the in house teams have to be technically well versed in aspects like sql queries etc when hunting for events Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS WAF:

Ensure that the resources using WAF are technically well versed as there is no managed support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Rapid & secure onboarding of external facing websites

Highly scalable solution

pay as you go model

Improved the productivity by reducing the time to market significantly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Services
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What do you like best about AWS WAF?

This application fireball is used for API gateway protection against threats or exploitation. It protect against malicious traffic to the front end application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS WAF?

Nothing to dislike if there is no price issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Used this firewall settings in Aws architecture for protecting API gateway. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS WAF?

The peace of mind knowing that the WAF is helping to block malicious activity on our applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS WAF?

It was slightly difficult to set up if you don't have much experience with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS WAF:

Highly recommended for anyone needing added firewall protection, etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are solving the problem of not allowing unauthorized data to leave our applications, as well as adding a firewall for added security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prajeesh M.
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What do you like best about AWS WAF?

It is so easy to implement all the required features with very more minor steps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS WAF?

Writing some exceptions is a little bit tough, but in a way, it's a good thing to be more careful what you are avoiding Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We humans always make mistakes; whenever we write a program/script, security is the primary concern, but we always make mistakes; covering up all these human errors are quite easier with AWS WAF, just a few steps, and you're all set Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hanna B.
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Software Developer
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What do you like best about AWS WAF?

AWS WAF is a very versatile and useful tool when it comes to protecting the infrastructures of our applications and this is because it allows users to establish rules according to their needs and vulnerabilities that they wish to stop, their costs are applied according to the number of rules that are established and the severity of them, that is why I consider it a great solution to protect any environment of web applications at the enterprise level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS WAF?

You must know how to manage, because if you do not do it, you can generate a very excessive and unnecessary amount of expenses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS WAF:

WAF is ideal for mitigating the most common web attacks, which is why I recommend it because it is very versatile and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use WAF to provide protection to our applications through different specific or centralized rules, which allows us to be free or to support the same ones of very common attacks like SQL injection and the best thing is that the managed rules are updated by the team of AWS which is a great advantage because we can focus on improving our applications and leaving this tool in the hands of its security and therefore better impossible because we only pay for what is used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Catherine A.
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Software Developer
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What do you like best about AWS WAF?

I like AWS WAF because it is simply a powerful protector against web attacks, for it allows developers or users to establish personalized security rules with which you can control the traffic of all applications, as well as attacks on these, since today one of the worst enemies are such attacks that tend to damage the infrastructure of the applications that is why WAF is ideal to avoid this and the best thing is that although it offers many advantages does not mean that its costs are very high, because we only have to pay only for what we use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS WAF?

Establishing rules tends to be somewhat limited because the more rules are established the more costs will rise, however it is worth it because it is really useful for the protection of web applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS WAF:

Great AWS service ideal to protect as many websites as corporate web applications, since there is no doubt that every day we are exposed to infinite vulnerabilities that is why I recommend using this firewall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use AWS WAF to help us protect our web applications from the most common attacks that exist today, for that we created a list that indicates that it can be a threat and that it is not so that we take control of this form. that must be blocked, what resources should be restricted and in the event that these rules do not work we have associated this service with Amazon CloudFront so that we may be informed of more specific attacks and thus be able to relieve the old rules by others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.