We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudFront and Imperva DDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two CDN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution has many features that are comprehensive."
"Amazon CloudFront is a stable solution."
"It is stable."
"It has built-in DDoS protection, which protects against DDoS attacks."
"The beneficial feature for the entire AWS community is the presence of edge location servers. These servers are strategically located in multiple locations, allowing efficient content delivery from the nearest server."
"Feature-wise, I like the solution's signed URL because it provides security for me."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the speed of delivery."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the availability of the websites."
"It's very pretty easy to onboard the URL."
"They're quite easy to install and quite easy to set up. Clients really like that. Especially when you're dealing with the cloud, it's really easy."
"The solution is very good at intercepting traffic before it gets to our data centers."
"Incapsula takes care of the CDN infrastructure and bandwidth volume, providing several enterprise "load balancing" features."
"Setup was straightforward, very simple. I only entered the domain and Incapsula returned the DNS data that I needed to change for the protection to be configured."
"Imperva DDoS is fairly stable, and its availability is quite high."
"Imperva Incapsula has many valuable features. One, it protects the top 10 OWAS vulnerability, the open web application software platform, this is standard. Secondly, it protects against broken authentication. As well, it has remote execution of code."
"It is an effective threat mitigation tool."
"During the setup phase, there were some hiccups in terms of security, the user role, and the permissions."
"The product should be more intuitive."
"Sometimes, the server goes down automatically."
"With a mixed stack, things become a problem. With GCP and Azure, the DNS setup gets tricky when using CloudFront."
"The support must be improved."
"The UI could be more user-friendly."
"Amazon CloudFront can improve by accurately determining the latency of a non-defined URL that the solution encounters."
"Improvements are needed as per customer requirements."
"Imperva should have more points of presence in Africa."
"The salespeople tend to exaggerate its capabilities, which can cost you money if you don't verify the information."
"Imperva now offers add-ons to add functionality, but I would like to see these included in the product, even if it would cost more."
"Analytics in the area of risk need to be improved to supply more information to the users for creating better environments."
"The product could use a broader scope in the area of policies."
"A limited tool if you're looking to customize."
"Users would benefit from better documentation. There is official documentation, but sometimes we need more detail. We have some use cases that are not so run of the mill. It would be great if there was a knowledge base that we could go to for more answers."
"We would like them to hire people in Sweden because it's quite hard when people are sitting in the UK or Belgium because some of the customers really want them to be local."
Amazon CloudFront is ranked 4th in CDN with 22 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 5th in CDN with 74 reviews. Amazon CloudFront is rated 8.2, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudFront writes "Top-notch in terms of customer service and offers pay-as-you-go model with a free tier". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva DDoS writes "I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions". Amazon CloudFront is most compared with Azure Front Door, Akamai, Cloudflare, Windows Azure CDN and Edgio, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and AWS Shield. See our Amazon CloudFront vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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