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Ask HN: Cloudflare WAF Alternatives?

10 points • by rco8786 • today at 8:10 PM • 2 comments • view on HN

I don't know if we're ready to pull the trigger yet, but curious if other folks are looking at alternatives.

The WAF is great, but recent events have made it obvious that having a single point of failure entirely defeats the purpose of DNS being a distributed/decentralized service.

Is anyone doing anything creative here? We like the features that the WAF provides - but not at the expense of global outages. If you have a 3 9s availability SLA, you've just blown 90% of your allotted downtime because of Cloudflare's WAF.

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mappu • today at 9:23 PM

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.

yearolinuxdsktp • today at 9:05 PM

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

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