G2 Vendor Directory

AWS WAF vs. HAProxy

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

MetricAWS WAF

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

HAProxy

by HAProxy

Overall rating4.34.7
Review count72914
Ease of use8.58.9
Ease of setup8.48.8
Quality of support8.99.2
Meets requirements9.19.3
NPS50.76923178.169791
Small Business33.3%20.9%
Mid-Market33.3%42.8%
Enterprise33.3%36.2%
Total page views2083,044
Total LLM citations1,0239,797

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

HAProxy

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.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Load Balancing
  • Reliability
  • Performance
  • Performance Optimization
  • Configuration Ease