
What is AWS Web Application Firewall?
AWS WAF helps you protect against common web exploits and bots that can affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect web applications from attacks by allowing you to configure rules that allow, block, or monitor (count) web requests based on conditions that you define. These conditions include IP addresses, HTTP headers, HTTP body, URI strings, SQL injection and cross-site scripting.
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88 Likeliness to Recommend
94 Plan to Renew
84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+95 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
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API Traffic Analysis
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AWS Web Application Firewall Reviews

Kiran G.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jan 2024
Fantastic service from AWS
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Web Application Firewall from other similar products?
Amazon Web Services provides in-built firewall to the customer is known as AWS Web Application Firewall.(AWS WAF). Unlike other similar products, AWS WAF provides many default Firewall rules which explicitly blocks the malicious traffic from entering into VPC, no need to configure complex rules.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favourite aspect of AWS WAF is the numbers of default firewall rules. They are providing the extra layer of protection, with Web Access Control lists, which are many by default. It's pricing is also fair. Also, decreases the overhead of managing a external firewall such as Palo Alto..
What do you dislike most about this product?
WAF cannot be used for our onprem legacy apps. Also the training available is not very good.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If your applications are hosted in AWS Cloud, please go for it.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Laxman T.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Banking
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Apr 2023
Awesome tool for application security
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Web Application Firewall from other similar products?
It provides application security .no external apis can access the api, until we create a rule to unblock it
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Security, application security provides security to application from external api
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing much ,it is awesome tool from amazon
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Great tool in AWS ,provide application security from external api until you unblock It
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing

Bruno L.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2023
Easy to use,
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Web Application Firewall from other similar products?
There is not great difference.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The AWS Support is great
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing to add
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Nothing to add
Pros
- Fair
- Altruistic
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Cons
- Less Productive
- Commodity Features