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WAF is a focused resource for related products, services, and industry information, combining providers, company profiles, and industry news with practical context for evaluating capabilities, costs, and fit.

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AWS Security

United States

AWS Security is Amazon's native cloud security ecosystem spanning GuardDuty threat detection, WAF & Shield application protection, Inspector vulnerability scanning, Macie data protection, KMS key management, and 200+ services for defense-in-depth cloud security.

Akamai Security delivers enterprise-grade cloud security through 4100+ global edge nodes, including Kona DDoS mitigation, WAF, Bot Manager, and API Security — the security standard for large-scale internet businesses.

F5 Networks

United States

Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, F5 (formerly F5 Networks) is the global leader in application delivery (ADC) and web application security. The BIG-IP series is the most widely deployed ADC and WAF platform in the industry.

Cloudflare Security

United States

Cloudflare Security leverages a 330+ city global edge network to deliver DDoS mitigation, WAF, Bot Management, API Shield, and Zero Trust as an all-in-one web security platform.

Wordfence

United States

Wordfence, developed by Defiant Inc. (USA) since 2012, is the most popular WordPress security plugin with over 4 million active installs. It features a built-in WAF, malware scanning engine, and login security protection.

Akamai

United States

Akamai is the world's largest content delivery network, with 4100+ nodes across 135+ countries. Founded in 1998 at MIT, it serves over 85% of the world's largest internet companies as the premier enterprise CDN and edge computing platform.

AWS CloudFront

United States

AWS CloudFront is Amazon Web Services' global CDN with 600+ nodes across 135+ countries. Deeply integrated with the AWS ecosystem, it features Lambda@Edge edge computing, dual-tier Regional Edge Cache architecture, and Origin Shield for origin offload.

Aliyun CDN

China

Aliyun CDN is the CDN acceleration service with the widest domestic node coverage in China, deploying 2,800+ nodes with dynamic acceleration, image processing, and video transcoding, deeply integrated with the Alibaba Cloud ecosystem.

BitNinja

Hungary

BitNinja is a server security company from Budapest, Hungary, founded in 2016, offering one-click DDoS protection, a web application firewall, and signature-based attack detection for server users and hosting providers.

Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Campbell, California, Barracuda Networks is a leading provider of email security, WAF, data backup, and network firewall solutions serving over 200,000 businesses worldwide.

EaglePanel

United States

EaglePanel is a free, open-source, lightweight server control panel built on OpenResty, offering one-click website creation, Let's Encrypt SSL, and a basic WAF with low resource usage for individuals and small teams doing lightweight hosting.

Verizon Digital Media CDN (VDMS) is Verizon's enterprise-grade CDN acceleration brand, its technology core originating from EdgeCast, which Verizon acquired in 2013. In 2022 Verizon sold the media business to Limelight Networks, renamed Edgio. VDMS history represents a typical telecom operator's journey into CDN.

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How to Choose a CDN: A Four-Step Decision by Business, Region, Billing, and Features

There are dozens of CDN vendors with wildly different prices and features, so how do you choose? This guide offers a four-step decision method — filter by business type (static, dynamic, video, cross-border), by region coverage, by billing model (traffic, bandwidth, package), and by features (WAF, image optimization, logs) — with a decision table, answering "how do I pick from all these CDN vendors."