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AWS WAF vs Imperva CDN

AWS WAF
21 Ratings
Imperva CDN
5 Ratings

AWS WAF

21 Ratings
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Score 8.8 out of 100

Based on 21 reviews and ratings

Imperva CDN

5 Ratings
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Score 7.7 out of 100

Based on 5 reviews and ratings

Attribute Ratings

  • AWS WAF is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend

Likelihood to Recommend

9.4

AWS WAF

94%
7 Ratings
8.0

Imperva CDN

80%
2 Ratings

Likelihood to Renew

9.0

AWS WAF

90%
1 Rating

Imperva CDN

N/A
0 Ratings

Usability

9.0

AWS WAF

90%
1 Rating

Imperva CDN

N/A
0 Ratings

Support Rating

9.1

AWS WAF

91%
3 Ratings

Imperva CDN

N/A
0 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
Hanna Bedoya
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Imperva CDN

I recommend it as a WAF, but not as a CDN. There are better CDNs, in my case I use transparentCDN (now www.transparentedge.eu) and Edgecast (now Verizon CDN).

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Edu Ard | TrustRadius Reviewer
Edu Ard
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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
Saim Jamali
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Imperva CDN

  • Reliability / Uptime
  • Security

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Josh Dix | 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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Imperva CDN

  • CDN functionalities are secondary and cannot be compared to a top-level CDN.
  • The WebGUI interface of the dashboard is very improvable. They have been changing the UX for years and it is disjointed and with services that have not yet been migrated.
  • The analysis of WAF attack logs is insufficient. It is difficult to analyze attacks of past hours, event filters are missing. It is complicated to analyze the chronology of an attack.
  • There are extra modules to improve the attack logs analysis but they are expensive and add little.

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Edu Ard | 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
Additional Pricing Details
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Imperva CDN

General

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

Starting Price

$0

Imperva CDN Editions & Modules

Edition
Free$0
Pro$592
Business$2992
EnterpriseCall For Quote
  1. none
  2. per month
  3. none
Additional Pricing Details
Free Plan: Bot mitigation, content delivery network and two-factor authentication. Pro Plan: Includes Free Plan Features plus web application firewall, advanced performance, PCI compliance report, backdoor protection and SSL support. Business Plan: Includes Pro features plus blocks network layer DDoS attacks, blocks application layer DDoS attacks, auto-detection & triggering and supports custom SSL certificates. Enterprise Plan: Includes Business Features plus 24/7 support and uptime SLA, custom security rules, real-time event monitoring, load balancing and failover, infrastructure DDoS protection (BGP), manager service option and API access and custom brandings.

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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Imperva CDN

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

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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Imperva CDN

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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Imperva CDN

No score
No answers yet
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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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Imperva CDN

Also TransparentCDN (now www.transparentedge.eu ) and Level 3

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Edu Ard | TrustRadius Reviewer
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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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Imperva CDN

  • It's an expensive product if you have a lot of traffic volume, but I feel confident with their WAF.

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Edu Ard | TrustRadius Reviewer
Edu Ard
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