Item: AWS WAF
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with AWS WAF

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We were using WAF to protect our web application from cyber attacks by filtering the requests access to our web app. We created various rules and access control lists for blocking all the unwanted threats like SQL injections.

Pros and Cons

Pros

The deployment was pretty easy on the AWS platform
The cost of using AWF WAF is pretty low as you only have to pay for the rules that you are assigning and also, you can chose the traffic that you need for your application
The technical support is great, they are very good in understanding your problem and really helpful in providing the best solution

Cons

There is nothing much to dislike about this product

Return on Investment

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

Alternatives Considered

Imperva SecureSphere

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.

Other Software Used

Selenium, Eclipse, Oracle Database, JIRA Software, Skype for Business, Oracle VM VirtualBox, SoapUI NG Pro

Likelihood to Recommend

It is a pretty useful product if your web application is deployed on Amazon Web Service platform, else it could be a little complicated and pricey. It's useful if you want to lay down your own rules for security and traffic management of your web app. Having AWS WAF can assure you that the application that you are creating have integrated security features which can be maintained easily for future use. It does has some flaws, but it is backed up by Amazon which is doing a great job in everything that they are doing, so it surely has a great future.

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