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Updated 13th October 2025
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Manager
Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, EducationFAVORABLE
“Centralized Dashboard Simplifies Metrics, Logs, and Trace Management for Teams”
The WAF provides cloud native capabilities without the need to introduce 3rd party devices which can increase complexity, overheads of administration and management.
Operations Associate
<50M USD, TransportationCRITICAL
“Product Offers Real-Time Streaming but Struggles with False Positive Detections”
Strong first layer defense and lot of out of the box rules but there are lot of false positives detections
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Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.
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Public
Year Founded
2006
Head office location
Seattle, United States
Number of employees
10001+
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Centralized Dashboard Simplifies Metrics, Logs, and Trace Management for Teams
The WAF provides cloud native capabilities without the need to introduce 3rd party devices which can increase complexity, overheads of administration and management. - IT Associate50M-1B USDSoftwareReview Source
AWS WAF Provides Strong Protection Yet Has Initial Setup and Tuning Challenges
AWS WAF has been highly effective and reliable source solution in our environment.I am have been using AWS WAF since 2 months now and experience has been very positive. It takes time to understand the traffic ,but once you get the grip , it becomes much easier to manage and operate effectively. - Engineer50M-1B USDEnergy and UtilitiesReview Source
Powerful AWS-native WAF taht rewards infrastructure-as-code discipline
AWS WAF delivers reliable, scalable web app protection that integrates well with CloudFront, Load Balancers, and API Gateway. Rule management and managed rule groups reduce operational overhead significantly, a great boon for our DevOps team. - SENIOR SECURITY ENGINEER50M-1B USDIT ServicesReview Source
Effective Protection for Web Applications With Smooth AWS Integration Experience
Overall a good experience. Provides good protection against our inhouse web applications. Plus the integration with other aws services is smooth as well .Works well for small & large applications - Devops Engineer<50M USDIT ServicesReview Source
Protecting Applications with Amazon WAF
I have experience working with AWS WAF to protect web applications from common web exploits and APIs from common threats like SQL injection, XSS and bot traffic. I configured custom rules and integrated WAF with CloudFront and application load balancer to control incoming traffic effectively. Used AWS Managed rules for common vulnerabilities, combined with our custom rules for application specific threats.
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