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AWS WAF vs Barracuda Web Application Firewall

AWS WAF
21 Ratings
Barracuda Web Application Firewall
16 Ratings

AWS WAF

21 Ratings
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Score 8.8 out of 100

Based on 21 reviews and ratings

Barracuda Web Application Firewall

16 Ratings
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Score 9.4 out of 100

Based on 16 reviews and ratings

Attribute Ratings

  • AWS WAF is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Support Rating

Likelihood to Recommend

9.4

AWS WAF

94%
7 Ratings
9.1

Barracuda Web Application Firewall

91%
4 Ratings

Likelihood to Renew

9.0

AWS WAF

90%
1 Rating

Barracuda Web Application Firewall

N/A
0 Ratings

Usability

9.0

AWS WAF

90%
1 Rating

Barracuda Web Application Firewall

N/A
0 Ratings

Support Rating

9.1

AWS WAF

91%
3 Ratings
8.0

Barracuda Web Application Firewall

80%
2 Ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

AWS WAF

AWS WAF is highly appropriate to interrupt or prevent cyber attacks because when implementing rules, whether they are specific or centralized, so any application that has these vulnerabilities is protected.
Implementing managed rules creates greater security to protect both API and applications.If implemented along with other AWS tools, the security is much better, so if you want to protect applications against more specific attacks, it is ideal to integrate with Amazon CloudFront, which is a great benefit because it warns when thresholds are exceeded or specific attacks occur.AWS WAF is ideal to avoid common web attacks. For more specific attacks and scenarios, I don't recommend this.

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Hanna Bedoya | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall

Best Suited for Customer Environments with O365 Setup - Would recommend it for small, medium, or even large-sized organizations. Need to make some adjustments if you have an automated email setup for some apps.

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Pros

AWS WAF

  • AWS WAF has the most developer-friendly API to create firewall rules.
  • AWS WAF provides OWASP security controls, which reduces developers' burden (i.e., SQL injection and cross-site scripting).
  • AWS WAF has customizable web security rules. The user can even push the rules through the API available, which is the great feature and helped me a lot.
  • It protects applications at layer 7 (HTTP) of the OSI model and not just layer 4 (TCP).

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Saim Jamali | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall

  • Web application security.
  • Blocks emails that could be spam.
  • Blocks websites we don't people on here at the school district.

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Tony Ortiz | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Cons

AWS WAF

  • The documentation offered is somewhat confusing, so it would be ideal if it were much more direct and precise.
  • Your initial configuration may be confusing, so the best option is to use the rule templates provided by AWS.
  • Its configuration is not unified with AWS, so it must be done separately and it takes some time.
  • The number of rules to be established is somewhat limited.

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maría jose gonzalez ortiz | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall

  • Learning curve to implement
  • If using SD-WAN, multiple devices required

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pricing Details

AWS WAF

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

$0.6 per 1 million requests

AWS WAF Editions & Modules

Edition
Resource Type - Web ACL$5.001
Resource Type - Rule$1.001
Resource Type - Request$0.602
  1. per month (prorated hourly)
  2. per 1 million requests
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall

General

Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional

Starting Price

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Barracuda Web Application Firewall Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details
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Likelihood to Renew

AWS WAF

AWS WAF 9.0
Based on 1 answer
Good value for money. Native AWS solution for services

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Igor Zeiger | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall

No score
No answers yet
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Usability

AWS WAF

AWS WAF 9.0
Based on 1 answer
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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Saim Jamali | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall

No score
No answers yet
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Support Rating

AWS WAF

AWS WAF 9.1
Based on 3 answers
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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Oscar Martinez | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall

Barracuda Web Application Firewall 8.0
Based on 2 answers
The Barracuda Web Application Firewall is easy to use. Support from Barracuda is great also. Load Balancing of the Web Application Firewall is also nice. This allows you to do maintenance or have large loads for the end-user. Threat monitoring of our network and traffic coming into our services within our cloud solution.

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Tony Ortiz | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Alternatives Considered

AWS WAF

We evaluated Imperva, but we were more convinced with AWS WAF because of the better pricing model, ease of deployment as we were already using the AWS platform which helping in ease of integration. The technical support for AWS WAF seemed to be better as they had better understanding of the overall system and architecture of the product, which helped us in getting a problem solved that was encountered while using AWS WAF. The amount of documentation and helpful material available online for AWS WAF made it the first choice for us to select this product over Imperva.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall

We have not recently looked at other products because we are happy with the ease of use and ability of the Barracuda Web Application Firewall.

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Return on Investment

AWS WAF

  • Our applications are less exposed to cyber attacks, which prevents them from getting out of control and consume much more resources than they should.
  • Saved us money by preventing attacks.
  • The traffic control is much more bearable.
  • App development is safer.

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Hanna Bedoya | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall

  • Reduction in DDos attacks
  • Reduced Phishing attempts
  • Granular access control

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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