AWS WAF vs. Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS WAF
Score 7.7 out of 10
N/A
Amazon Web Services offers AWS WAF (web application firewall) to protect web applications from malicious behavior that might impede the applications functioning and performance, with customizable rules to prevent known harmful behaviors and an API for creating and deploying web security rules.
$0.60
per 1 million requests
Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service is presented by the vendor as a full-featured, cloud-delivered application security service that includes full-spectrum L3-L7 DDoS protection (volumetric and application) to protect applications from disruptions and ensure nonstop availability.N/A
Pricing
AWS WAFBarracuda WAF-as-a-Service
Editions & Modules
Resource Type - Request
$0.60
per 1 million requests
Resource Type - Rule
$1.00
per month (prorated hourly)
Resource Type - Web ACL
$5.00
per month (prorated hourly)
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AWS WAFBarracuda WAF-as-a-Service
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
AWS WAFBarracuda WAF-as-a-Service
Considered Both Products
AWS WAF

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Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service
Chose Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service
Price for the over all functionalities offered.
Simplicity to configure and deploy in our current environment.
Automated standard policies.
Top Pros
Top Cons
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User Ratings
AWS WAFBarracuda WAF-as-a-Service
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(8 ratings)
8.5
(2 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AWS WAFBarracuda WAF-as-a-Service
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
Most suited if you have a very strong presence in AWS. It is natively available as an add on service. You can also track the costs overtime based on usage. There is still a lot of improvement on the features and the user interface that can be implemented over time
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Simple Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service were out of the box standard policies can be applied. this Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service is perfect for a basic environment and protection in particular if you have already other barracuda Infrastruture elements in your network. Easy to deploy configure and get it running with in a few hours. Definitely not the type of WAF for a complex web application.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Protect any application against the most common attacks.
  • Provides better visibility of web traffic.
  • It allows us to control the traffic in different ways in which it is enabled or blocked through the implementation of security rules developed personally according to our needs.
  • It is able to block common attacks such as SQL code injection.
  • It allows defining specific rules for applications, thus increasing web security as they are developed.
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
  • Provides full-spectrum security DOD-level protection; which is a big help for us for security of our data.
  • Ease of setup on her firewall for security for VPN users.
  • Configuration is easy to do and use for our security team with its features and pictures of instruction.
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • AWS WAF is a bit costly if used for single applications.
  • they should provide attack-wise protection, like if my certain type of application is vulnerable to DDOS then I should be able to buy WAF, especially for that attack.
  • CLI tool to test in offline mode if possible.
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
  • User interface
  • Slow response
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Usability
Amazon AWS
The product is highly scalable. It is easy to configure the rules and thereby helps us to mitigate many vulnerabilities. The interface and programming of the firewall provisions were easy to setup. Amazon clearly spent a lot of time figuring this out and perfecting it. It allows users to do customized configurations based on their needs. It provides protection against a number of security issues like XSS, SQL injection, etc. I would definitely recommend this for protecting your infra as you scale, since this basically protects and filters all requests hitting your application server.
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
If you're intending to use AWS WAF, I would say that you absolutely should sign up for support. AWS Support is excellent and they can help you in a really good way to solve your issues.
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
Unlike these other AWS tools, WAF provides real-time traffic control, rules that can be customized according to the needs of the user, and is based on an implementation in the cloud which avoids the use of memory on computers as well as an account with a very affordable cost for any user or company
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Using the phishing and impersonation tool to rule out and capture phishing emails is good one we are using.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • The overall security of the web application increased effectively after deploying AWS WAF
  • No negative impacts were seen in the business
  • The developers were more confident in the overall security model of the web application being developed and it was easy to integrate WAF into the existing system as the application was also using AWS platform
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
  • Positive - quick deployment
  • Positive - scalable for simple environments
  • Negative - difficult to support complex web app environments
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