G2 Vendor Directory

AWS WAF vs. F5 NGINX

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAWS WAF

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

F5 NGINX

by F5

Overall rating4.34.6
Review count72113
Ease of use8.58.7
Ease of setup8.48.6
Quality of support8.98.1
Meets requirements9.19.4
NPS50.76923176.785714
Small Business33.3%39.8%
Mid-Market33.3%39.8%
Enterprise33.3%20.4%
Total page views2081,370
Total LLM citations1,0237,495

AWS WAF

AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) is a security service designed to protect web applications and APIs from common web exploits and bots that can compromise security, affect availability, or consume excessive resources. By enabling users to define customizable web security rules, AWS WAF allows precise control over which traffic to allow or block, ensuring robust protection tailored to specific application needs.

Pros

  • WAF (Web Application Firewall)
  • Solutions
  • Cloud Integration
  • Custom Rules
  • DDoS Protection
  • Protection

F5 NGINX

NGINX, Inc. is the company behind NGINX, the popular open source project trusted by more than 400 million sites. We offer a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern applications. The NGINX Application Platform enables enterprises undergoing digital transformation to modernize legacy, monolithic applications as well as deliver new, microservices‑based applications. Companies like Netflix, Starbucks, and McDonalds rely on NGINX to reduce costs, improve resiliency, and speed innovation.

Pros

  • Configuration Ease