F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) Review
Updated March 12, 2026
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) Review
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Overall Satisfaction with F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
Today we are using it to protect our external applications. We have distributed cloud using DNS to forward traffic to our one prem External BIG-IPs. We have 50 applications that are using F5 Distributed Cloud WAF today and we are looking to expand this in the near future.
Pros
- It works really well for ease of configuration. Being able to setup the level of security for High or Low accuracy
- It is really easy to create origin pools and point traffic using DNS to our on prem F5s to help protect our external applications.
Cons
- I know some of these products are on the road map but it would be really cool to be able to use F5 Distributed Cloud WAF to manage on prem F5s.
- This helps us quickly push out applications and security to our applications. It is so simple to perform these tasks in F5 Distributed Cloud WAF.
- We are also using the MSP side of it so we have support and are able to have F5 manage our solutions that can save us time.
We have been able to provide security to our external apps extremely fast and effectively. Right now we are just pointing to DNS and using our on prem F5s but in the future we expect that some of these apps will be hosted on F5 Distributed Cloud WAF making it even easier to manage.
Yes - It helps in the sense that management is all in one place. We don't have to go across multiple cloud load balancers that each have their own configuration. Using F5 Distributed Cloud WAF allows us to be able to manage those certificates and LBs all in one platform.
Do you think F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)'s feature set?
Yes
Did F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) again?
Yes
Using F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
4 - The users of the F5 distributed cloud WAF reside on the security team.
4 - The skills to support F5 Distributed Cloud WAF are basic skills surrounding application deployment. Most of the security features on the WAF are simple and very easy to setup. With the drop down functionality to select which type of risks you want to mitigate against, you can spin up a WAF in seconds
- Security
- Reliability
- Resilience
- The ease and quickness to deploy security around our applications
- Fast response to on going attack vectors
- The new AI options to detect attacks without current signatures is amazing as well
- I think the new AI functionality to detect threats that are not currently in a signature database will be super helpful
- We are planning to expand our use case of the WAF to more and more of our applications for the ease of deployment and access,
Evaluating F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) and Competitors
Yes - We replaced the on premise AWAF. The XC WAF was so much simpler to use and provided quick mitigation to on going attacks that we were already seeing in and around our organization.
- Scalability
- Ease of Use
I dont think I would change much. We already trust F5 with so many things we knew that the XC products would be a great fit for our organization.
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