Amazon FSx vs. F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon FSx
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Amazon 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)
Score 9.1 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
Amazon FSxF5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
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Offerings
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Amazon FSxF5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Amazon FSxF5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
Features
Amazon FSxF5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Amazon FSx
8.0
1 Ratings
4% below category average
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
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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 Product A and Product B
Amazon FSx
10.0
1 Ratings
15% above category average
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
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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 Product A and Product B
Amazon FSx
10.0
1 Ratings
15% above category average
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
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Performance10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Reliability10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Storage Reports10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Amazon FSxF5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.9
(2 ratings)
9.1
(144 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
7.4
(9 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.3
(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
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(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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(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.
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F5
It helps our website to manage well during high traffic seasons and Holidays. This plaform manages the website overall performance and also protect it against DDoS attacks during these High demand period. It also protects transactions done on our website for the booking of services and products buying by our customers and keep their data safe.
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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
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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
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F5
  • 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
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.
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Usability
Amazon AWS
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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.
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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
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F5
Unnoticed slowness
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
F5
I never contacted support for this product.
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Online Training
Amazon AWS
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F5
Online training saves me lots of time
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Implementation Rating
Amazon AWS
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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.
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F5
It provides fewer false positives and a more granular approach to eliminating them, allowing us to focus on threats. Also, with the need to secure both on-premise and cloud-based web applications, we can only use Azure on the cloud part, but we still need to cover on-premise apps with WAF, so we would need to double the time to deploy and manage. Also, its flexibility of deployment scenarios offers us a faster time to deploy WAF without adjusting the app delivery process to WAF's existence.
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Scalability
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
F5
Dont see any issue so far
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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
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