Websites Using AWS WAF

AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect web applications from common exploits.

Categories: Security

Official website: https://aws.amazon.com/waf/

767 websites using AWS WAF

AWS WAF is ranked #18 of 316 in Security by website adoption.

Security alternatives ranked by popularity

HSTS — 127,643 websites
Cloudflare WAF — 52,384 websites
Cloudflare Bot Management — 32,541 websites
reCAPTCHA — 31,130 websites
Cloudflare DDoS Protection — 24,882 websites
reCAPTCHA Enterprise — 17,344 websites
hCaptcha — 7,159 websites
Akamai Kona Site Defender — 5,720 websites
Cloudflare Turnstile — 5,485 websites
DDoS-Guard — 2,925 websites

Technologies commonly used with AWS WAF

Amazon Web Services — 95% co-occurrence
Amazon CloudFront — 78% co-occurrence
Fastly — 76% co-occurrence
Amazon API Gateway — 66% co-occurrence
Open Graph — 51% co-occurrence
Amazon Route 53 — 46% co-occurrence
HSTS — 45% co-occurrence
Google Tag Manager — 37% co-occurrence

How WhatStack detects AWS WAF

WhatStack detects AWS WAF by analyzing HTTP headers, HTML source code, JavaScript globals, meta tags, cookies, DNS records, and ads.txt entries using signature-based pattern matching across 10 different analyzers.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is AWS WAF?: AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect web applications from common exploits.
How many websites use AWS WAF?: WhatStack has detected AWS WAF on 767 websites in our database.
How do you detect AWS WAF?: We analyze HTTP headers, HTML source, JavaScript globals, meta tags, cookies, DNS records, and ads.txt entries to identify AWS WAF with high accuracy using signature-based pattern matching.