AWS WAF vs Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF) | TrustRadius

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Score 8.8 out of 10

Based on 21 reviews and ratings

Score 9.7 out of 10

Based on 6 reviews and ratings

Attribute Ratings

AWS WAF is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Usability
AWS WAF and Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF) are tied in 1 area: Support Rating

Likelihood to Recommend

9.4

AWS WAF

94%

7 Ratings

8.2

Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)

82%

2 Ratings

Likelihood to Renew

9.0

AWS WAF

90%

1 Rating

Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)

N/A

0 Ratings

Usability

9.0

AWS WAF

90%

1 Rating

8.2

Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)

82%

1 Rating

Support Rating

9.1

AWS WAF

91%

3 Ratings

9.1

Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)

91%

1 Rating

Pros

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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Head of Software & Services

SamiPharmaHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 10,001+ employees

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Alert Aggregation - Correlates different violations into perceived correlated attacks.
Ease of deployment - as one of the only WAFs that allow bridge mode deployment, this can be deployed with without downtime and no Network Architecture modifications. If the need for proxy is required at a later time, Transparent Reverse Proxy can be deployed within seconds and minimal configuration.
Custom Policies - Custom security policies are easy to configure.
Reporting - There are a good amount of pre-configured reports available by default.

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Consultant in Information Technology

Computer & Network Security Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Cons

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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Software Developer

KANA SoftwareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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The UI can use a little work (but is largely decent)

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IT Security Analyst III

Tallgrass EnergyUtilities, 501-1000 employees

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Pricing Details

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

per month (prorated hourly)
per 1 million requests

Additional Pricing Details

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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

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Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF) Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Likelihood to Renew

AWS WAF 9.0

Based on 1 answer

Good value for money. Native AWS solution for services

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ITOPS Manager

Align TechnologyHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 10,001+ employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Usability

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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Head of Software & Services

SamiPharmaHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 10,001+ employees

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Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF) 8.2

Based on 1 answer

There are just a couple of points that are hard to find, that probably could be elsewhere. But these are minor; everything else is right where you'd expect it to be.

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IT Security Analyst III

Tallgrass EnergyUtilities, 501-1000 employees

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Support Rating

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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DevOps

Aval Digital LabsFinancial Services, 201-500 employees

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Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF) 9.1

Based on 1 answer

We haven't needed support from Imperva since implementation. But during that time, their personnel were very quick to respond to questions. Since then, it's been largely doing its thing for us (which is exactly what we'd hoped).

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IT Security Analyst III

Tallgrass EnergyUtilities, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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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Engineer in Professional Services

Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees

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Ultimately, it was the easiest to work with that was still a "known" company (we've been burned too many times by up-and-comers). We needed something that gave us a lot of control but then didn't need its handheld on a daily basis. Imperva gives us a lot of that and we are still able to navigate it with ease.

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IT Security Analyst III

Tallgrass EnergyUtilities, 501-1000 employees

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Return on Investment

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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Software Developer

iModulesComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Meet compliance requirements - Check.
Better Insight into web application - Absolutely great, checks all the traffic against RFC standards and will alert on common development mistakes that duplicate application traffic or provide attack vectors for potential attackers.
Have had several issues blocking a customer without producing alerts, while it happened only one week out of 2 years of working with the devices, it did produce a lot of headaches.

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Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Computer & Network Security Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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