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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon FSx

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AAmazon FSx is a cloud storage service designed to make it easy and cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a range of workloads boasting reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. As a fully managed service, it handles hardware provisioning, patching, and backups, and supports four widely-used file systems: NetApp ONTAP, OpenZFS, Windows File Server, and Lustre.N/A

    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AF5 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
    Amazon FSxF5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon FSxF5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon FSxF5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    No answer on this topic
    F5
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Would buy again
    178 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    158 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    174 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    129 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    142 Answers
    Features
    Amazon FSxF5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Amazon FSx and F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Feature
    Amazon FSx
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    5% below category average
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    -
    Ratings
    Versioning8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Video files6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audio files6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document collaboration10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access control10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    File search8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device sync8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud Storage Security & Administration
    Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Amazon FSx and F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Feature
    Amazon FSx
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    15% above category average
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    -
    Ratings
    User and role management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    File organization10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud Storage Platform
    Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Amazon FSx and F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Feature
    Amazon FSx
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    -
    Ratings
    Performance10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reliability10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Storage Reports10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Apple iCloud
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    Score9.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    ownCloud
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon FSxF5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    9.2
    (180 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon FSxF5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    - For any enterprise-grade storage, this is the best option. - EDA workloads are very strong with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and NetApp's FlexCache technologies. - Random read workloads such as OLTP are awesome on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. - File Services are the best in class on FSxN. - DR sites from ONTAP on-premises are amazing.
    Incentivized
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    F5
    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
    Amazon AWS
    • Enterprise grade unified storage in the cloud
    • Multiprotocol access
    • PV for EKS
    • Data mobility
    • Data security
    • Integration with NetApp Cloud Manager
    Incentivized
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    F5
    • 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
    Amazon AWS
    • Data Protection from AWS console
    • Advance Matrix
    • FlexGroups creating as part of AWS console
    Incentivized
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    F5
    • Lack of warnings, currently the console does not provide a warning when deleting key-value entry.
    • The web GUI could use some tweaking, currently no undo option when removing exclusion rules.
    • Configuration complexity, currently menus and options are hidden, making it hard to configure vs on prem.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    We gave it an 8 because it protects our web apps well and is reliable. The WAF is flexible and meets most of our needs. It could improve in user interface and make integrations easier, but overall, it’s a solid and effective security tool for us.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    Seems no issue
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    Performance
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    Unnoticed slowness
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    I never contacted support for this product.
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    Online training saves me lots of time
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    Just make sure you origin servers have F5 IPs allowed.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    I have not worked with other reliable and powerful platform that is as reliable as this product. This platform has given us room to concentrate on more productive activities leaving our data under a safe system. It automates file transfer and saves time in uploading documents across all team members. It interlinks all our applications systems to enhance teamwork and increase production.
    Incentivized
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    F5
    The other one that I've used in the past, they're very similar and I haven't used it recently, so I can't do a side-by-side comparison today. But I can say that F5 does everything we want it to do consistent with what this other product did do and it's got enhanced features and of course we have a long history with F5 as a product set in general.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    Dont see any issue so far
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • It improved our TCO by optimizing storage costs between SSDs and S3
    • It speeded our TTM with speedy deployment and orchestration
    • It removed needed expertise from our engineers
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    F5
    • The biggest gain for us was speed. Before F5 Distributed Cloud WAF, onboarding a new app to our WAF stack meant manual rule tuning, traffic sampling and regression testing. Right now, we spin up a service, tag it with the right policy and its ready (production ready) within hours
    Incentivized
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