Top 10 AWS WAF Alternatives & Competitors

Top 10 Alternatives to AWS WAF Recently Reviewed By G2 Community

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F5 NGINX
By F5
4.6/5
(107)
Product Description
free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy
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Reviewers say compared to AWS WAF, F5 NGINX is:
Slower to reach roi
Better at meeting requirements
Easier to do business with
Categories in common with AWS WAF:
Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Imperva App Protect
By Thales Group
4.1/5
(80)
Product Description
Incapsula is a cloud-based security and acceleration service that makes websites safer, faster, and more reliable.
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Reviewers say compared to AWS WAF, Imperva App Protect is:
Slower to reach roi
Easier to set up
More usable
Categories in common with AWS WAF:
Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Sucuri
By GoDaddy
3.3/5
(48)
Product Description
Sucuri is a managed security service provider for websites. Our cloud-based tools provide complete website security, including intrusion prevention, detection, and incident response.
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Reviewers say compared to AWS WAF, Sucuri is:
Slower to reach roi
Categories in common with AWS WAF:
Web Application Firewall (WAF)

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Cloudflare Application Security and Performance
By Cloudflare, Inc.
4.5/5
(599)
Product Description
Cloudflare Application Security and Performance solutions provide performance, reliability, and security for all of your web applications and APIs, wherever they are hosted and wherever your users are.
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Reviewers say compared to AWS WAF, Cloudflare Application Security and Performance is:
Slower to reach roi
More usable
Easier to set up
Categories in common with AWS WAF:
Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Google Cloud Armor
By Google
4/5
(23)
Product Description
Google Cloud Armor is a comprehensive security solution designed to protect applications and websites from a variety of threats, including distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and common web vulnerabilities. Leveraging Google's global infrastructure, Cloud Armor offers robust defenses to ensure the availability and security of online services. Key Features and Functionality: - Built-in DDoS Defense: Provides automatic protection against Layer 3 and Layer 4 DDoS attacks, benefiting from Google's extensive experience in safeguarding major internet properties. - Adaptive Protection: Utilizes machine learning to detect and mitigate high-volume Layer 7 DDoS attacks, analyzing traffic patterns in real-time to identify and respond to threats. - Pre-configured WAF Rules: Offers out-of-the-box web application firewall rules based on industry standards to defend against common vulnerabilities, such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection (SQLi) attacks. - Bot Management: Integrates with reCAPTCHA Enterprise to provide automated protection against malicious bots, helping to prevent fraud and abuse at the edge of the network. - Rate Limiting: Implements rate-based rules to control the volume of incoming requests, protecting applications from being overwhelmed by excessive traffic and ensuring access for legitimate users. Primary Value and User Solutions: Google Cloud Armor delivers enterprise-grade protection by combining DDoS defense and web application firewall capabilities at a predictable monthly price. It addresses critical security challenges by mitigating the OWASP Top 10 risks and providing adaptive, machine learning-based defenses against sophisticated attacks. By integrating seamlessly with Google's global load balancing infrastructure, Cloud Armor ensures that applications remain secure and available, regardless of deployment environment—be it on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid setup.
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Reviewers say compared to AWS WAF, Google Cloud Armor is:
Easier to admin
Categories in common with AWS WAF:
Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)
By Thales Group
4.7/5
(41)
Product Description
Web application attacks deny services and steal sensitive data. Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF) analyzes and inspects requests coming in to applications and stops these attacks.
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Reviewers say compared to AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF) is:
Slower to reach roi
More expensive
More usable
Categories in common with AWS WAF:
Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Barracuda Web Application Firewall
By Barracuda
4.3/5
(14)
Product Description
Secure Your Web Apps and APIs On-Premises and in the Cloud
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Reviewers say compared to AWS WAF, Barracuda Web Application Firewall is:
More usable
Easier to set up
Categories in common with AWS WAF:
Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Azure Application Gateway
By Microsoft
4.4/5
(160)
Product Description
Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. Unlike traditional load balancers that operate at the transport layer (Layer 4), Application Gateway operates at the application layer (Layer 7), allowing it to make routing decisions based on attributes such as URL paths and host headers. This capability provides more control over how traffic is distributed to your applications, enhancing both performance and security. Key Features and Functionality: - Layer 7 Load Balancing: Routes traffic based on HTTP request attributes, enabling more precise control over traffic distribution. - Web Application Firewall (WAF): Protects applications from common web vulnerabilities like SQL injection and cross-site scripting by monitoring and filtering HTTP requests. - SSL/TLS Termination: Offloads SSL/TLS processing to the gateway, reducing the encryption and decryption overhead on backend servers. - Autoscaling: Automatically adjusts the number of gateway instances based on traffic load, ensuring optimal performance and cost efficiency. - Zone Redundancy: Distributes instances across multiple availability zones, enhancing resilience and availability. - URL Path-Based Routing: Directs requests to backend pools based on URL paths, allowing for efficient resource utilization. - Host Header-Based Routing: Routes traffic to different backend pools based on the host header, facilitating multi-site hosting. - Integration with Azure Services: Seamlessly integrates with Azure Traffic Manager for global load balancing and Azure Monitor for centralized monitoring and alerting. Primary Value and User Solutions: Azure Application Gateway provides a scalable and highly available solution for managing web application traffic. By operating at the application layer, it offers intelligent routing capabilities that enhance application performance and reliability. The integrated Web Application Firewall ensures robust security against common web threats, while features like SSL/TLS termination and autoscaling optimize resource utilization and reduce operational overhead. This comprehensive set of features addresses the needs of organizations seeking to build secure, scalable, and efficient web front ends in Azure.
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Reviewers say compared to AWS WAF, Azure Application Gateway is:
Slower to reach roi
More usable
Easier to admin
Categories in common with AWS WAF:
Web Application Firewall (WAF)

HAProxy
By HAProxy
4.7/5
(890)
Product Description
HAProxy is an open-source software load balancer and reverse proxy for TCP, QUIC, and HTTP-based applications. It provides high availability, load balancing, and best-in-class SSL processing. HAProxy One is an application delivery and security platform that combines the HAProxy core with enterprise-grade security layers, management and orchestration, cloud-native integration, and more. Platform components: HAProxy Enterprise: a flexible data plane layer for TCP, UDP, QUIC, and HTTP-based applications that provides high-performance load balancing, high availability, an API/AI gateway, container networking, SSL processing, DDoS protection, bot detection and mitigation, global rate limiting, and a web application firewall (WAF). HAProxy Fusion: a scalable control plane that provides full-lifecycle management, observability, and automation of multi-cluster, multi-cloud, and multi-team HAProxy Enterprise deployments, with infrastructure integration for AWS, Kubernetes, Consul, and Prometheus. HAProxy Edge: a globally distributed application delivery network that provides fully managed application delivery and security services, a secure partition between external traffic and origin networks, and threat intelligence enhanced by machine learning that powers the security layers in HAProxy Fusion and HAProxy Enterprise. Learn more at HAProxy.com.
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Reviewers say compared to AWS WAF, HAProxy is:
Slower to reach roi
Easier to set up
More usable
Categories in common with AWS WAF:
Web Application Firewall (WAF)