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AWS WAF vs OpenSSL: What are the differences?
What is AWS WAF? Control which traffic to allow or block to your web application by defining customizable web security rules. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications from common web exploits that could affect application availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.
What is OpenSSL? Full-featured toolkit for the Transport Layer Security and Secure Sockets Layer protocols. It is a robust, commercial-grade, and full-featured toolkit for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols. It is also a general-purpose cryptography library.
AWS WAF and OpenSSL belong to "Security" category of the tech stack.
Bitbucket, Switchfly, and ThriveHive are some of the popular companies that use OpenSSL, whereas AWS WAF is used by Publitas, Zola, and Pangea Money Transfer. OpenSSL has a broader approval, being mentioned in 3996 company stacks & 12 developers stacks; compared to AWS WAF, which is listed in 20 company stacks and 26 developer stacks.
