Security Features Comparison of F5 vs AWS and Azure Load Balancers + WAF

Hi,

AWS/Azure offers good integration with other AWS/Azure services but the major benefits are limited to AWS/Azure clients.

BIG-IP ASM offers some of the following advantages (from the security perspective):

1. PCI Compliance
2. Carrier-Grade Hardware Platform (On-Premise Option)
3. Advanced L7 DoS and DDoS detection including: HASH DoS, Slowloris, floods, Keep dead, XML bomb
4. Web scraping prevention
5. Advanced automated attack defense and bot detection
6. Advanced protections against threats including: Web injections, data leakage, session hijacking, HPP attacks, buffer overflows, shellshock
7. Geolocation blocking
8. IP Intelligence (IP reputation) services
9. SSL termination with re-encryption
10. Security incident and violation correlation
11. Client-side certification support
12. Client authentication LDAP, RADIUS
13. Database security integration (Oracle)
14. Response checking
15. Violation risk scoring
16. Web service encryption and decryption
17. Device-ID detection and finger printing
18. Live signature updates
19. WebSocket traffic filtering
20. IP shunning (layer 3 blacklisting in HW) with BIG-IP AFM