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Website security and firewall software

AWS WAF Pricing, Features, Reviews and Alternatives

AWS WAF FAQs

Q. Who are the typical users of AWS WAF?

AWS WAF has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Small Business

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Q. What languages does AWS WAF support?

AWS WAF supports the following languages:
English


Q. Does AWS WAF offer an API?

Yes, AWS WAF has an API available for use.


Q. What level of support does AWS WAF offer?

AWS WAF offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base

AWS WAF product overview

What is AWS WAF?

AWS WAF is a website security and firewall software that helps businesses manage filter web traffic, control bot traffic, handle account takeovers attacks, and more on a centralized platform. It allows team members to create web traffic filtration rules based on multiple custom conditions, such as custom URIs, IP addresses, and HTTP headers and body.

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Email/Help Desk
FAQs/Forum
Knowledge Base

Training options

Documentation

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AWS WAF features

Functionality

4.3

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4

Total features

6

2 categories

Most valued features by users

Reporting/Analytics
IP Filtering
Network Monitoring
Threat Response
Vulnerability Scanning
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AWS WAF users reviews

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Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8.75/10
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Rafael A.

Design, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Once you get past that the learning curve is unmatched.

Reviewed 3 years ago

Stop using third party tools. Being able to use all the other AWS tools, IP filtering, Shield and MAP.

Pros

The leap from other platforms has been slow but the speed with all the AWS tools is unmatched. Once you move from other services (Google and Azure) the environment is much better and robust. And stop using third party tools as everything is integrated within the AWS environment.

Cons

The learning curve is complicated. And for more detailed projects I need a system administrator, because it is difficult. But of course the investment is well worth it.

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Deep N.

Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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AWS WAF: The Defender Our Web Apps Deserve

Reviewed 9 months ago

Its been super easy to create and manage all the security rules for all of my Web Applications in a single place using AWS WAF

Pros

The best about AWS WAF is its pre-built defenses. This WAF acts as a shield for all my web apps and it filters out all malicious traffic and protects against common web attacks for example SQL injection, XSS, or bot attacks. It provides a variety of managed rule groups, including OWASP Top 10, Common Rules, and Bot Control which are super useful. Not only these pre-defined rules , I can create my custom rules to address specific needs for my web applications. And another very useful feature is I can easily integrate WAF with other AWS resources such as AWS Cloudfront, ALB ,Amazon API gateway etc .

Cons

The pay as you go model for AWS WAF is little bit complex for a newbie as the price depends on many factors such as number of Web access control lists created,traffic volume,configuration etc. So you must have prior knowledge to deal with AWS WAF. Except this there is nothing much to dislike about AWS WAF.

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Gianluigi M.

Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Quite good basic Web Application Firewall in free version

Reviewed 2 years ago

We adopt WAF in front of our single ingress point, our ALB, through which all our requests pass. We deploy a lot of different web apps, including Wordpress sites, API custom apps and so on. With AWF we can setup some default rules which covers typical attacks and we sometime set custom rules based on specific application requirements. When rules become many, you have to pay to add more.

Pros

Preset rules covers a lot of typical web app critical security issue, like SQL Injection and Wodpress attack. Monitoring is quite good. Set actions in the event of an attack is very simple to setup.

Cons

You have a budget in "points" to spent for free. Using preset rules or set your own rules consumes "points" so you can set only a certain number of rules for free. Using advanced features requires a "pro" version which is very very expensive for us.

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Anmol D.

Computer & Network Security, 201-500 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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AWS waf

Reviewed 2 years ago
Pros

Easy to setup and create a new ruleease of use of IP sets and regex pattern sets in which we can block IPs and domains

Cons

I am using AWS WAF for 2 years and It is easy to use setup.The dashboard is clear and gives an idea of the rules

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