Ask HN: Cloudflare WAF Alternatives?

25 points | by rco8786 a day ago ago

14 comments

  • mappu a day ago

    The ability of a WAF to respond to an 0day incident is rapid rollout, 100% of endpoints, which is a SPOF no matter whether it's done via a big company or by a distributed system.

    • poguemahoney 14 hours ago

      Assuming there are still 2 WAF makers they hopefully do two mostly independent rollouts at least with separate reviewers.. It is a little shocking to me how far we have slid down the slope to letting one monopoly decide when each part of of computing environment is up.. But if bigger organizations are down it is socially acceptable to have an outage.

  • dennis16384 6 hours ago

    Google Cloud Armor plus Load Balancer?

    You can balance traffic to external networks or clouds with it too.

  • mindcrash 13 hours ago

    some alternatives which can be self hosted:

    open-appsec (by checkpoint), their proxy/gateway integration and your favorite firewall daemon:

    https://docs.openappsec.io/getting-started/start-with-linux

    appsec (by crowdsec), their proxy/gateway integration and your favorite firewall daemon:

    https://docs.crowdsec.net/u/getting_started/installation/lin...

  • server_man3000 18 hours ago

    Not worth. Competitors like Bunny CDN which is much smaller will inevitably have a much worse incident as they grow. Every large company will inevitably have a couple bad incidents so asking “what other large company will never have incidents” is a moronic perspective IMO

  • stevefan1999 a day ago

    What about open source alternative built with Nginx/OpenResty? I forgot the name but that's the spirit

  • 3rube a day ago

    Fastly (US) and BunnyCDN (EU) are excellent options

  • grim_io a day ago

    Being down because half the internet is down is an easier sell than being down because you fucked it up yourself.

  • 882542F3884314B a day ago

    Akamai is a decent alternative.

  • tguvot 8 hours ago

    imperva

  • BOOSTERHIDROGEN a day ago

    CrowdSec

  • yearolinuxdsktp a day ago

    AWS Route53, built-in DDoS basic protections, plus AWS WAF (can be expensive depending on your budget).

    • synack a day ago

      I've been using Cloudfront Functions to do some of the filtering that a WAF would do. It's quite flexible, but you've gotta figure out your own rules.

      • y-curious a day ago

        AWS WAF has some presets you can use