Bunny Shield vs AWS WAF
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Bunny Shield and AWS WAF.
Quick Verdict
3.8/5
Bunny Shield
0 reviews
4.0/5
AWS WAF
0 reviews
AWS WAF is rated higher (4.0 vs 3.8). Bunny Shield is the security layer of Bunny.net: WAF, DDoS mitigation, rate limiting, bot detection, access lists, and upload scanning for sites and APIs served through Bunny's edge network. Free Basic tier; Advanced $9.50/month, Business $99/month. AWS WAF is Amazon's web application firewall that can be attached to CloudFront, ALB, or API Gateway. Pay per rule ($1/rule/month) and per million requests ($0.60). Integrates with AWS Shield.
Bunny Shield DDoS protection and Web Application Firewall for content delivery |  AWS WAF Amazon WAF integrated with CloudFront and ALB | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.8 (0 reviews) | 4.0 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | freemium | usage-based |
| Starting price | Free tier available✓ | From $5/mo |
| Best for | Bunny CDN customers — especially UGC and media platforms — who want WAF, bot, and rate-limit protection without a second security vendor | AWS-invested applications that need a managed, OWASP-focused WAF tightly integrated with CloudFront or ALB, with rules deployed as code |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ✓ | |
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ✓ | |
| Free tier | ✓ | |
| Tags | ||
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| Visit Bunny Shield → | Visit AWS WAF → | |
Bunny Shield
Pros
- + Free Basic tier is genuinely protective: 71 WAF rules, 25M requests/month, upload scanning included
- + Full published feature matrix with explicit overage rates — pricing clarity above the category norm
- + Runs on the same 119-center edge as Bunny CDN, so protection adds no second network hop
- + Upload scanning for malware and CSAM is rare outside enterprise UGC platforms' tooling
- + API Guardian validates and authenticates API traffic at the edge before it reaches origin
Cons
- - Only protects properties served through Bunny's network — no stand-alone mode
- - Bot mitigation and inspection depth tier-gated: complex bots require the $99/month Business plan
- - Custom WAF rules capped at 10 (Advanced) and 25 (Business); access lists capped by entries
- - Request-based billing keeps metering during attacks unless limits are configured
- - Younger product with less community depth and fewer documented edge cases than Cloudflare's WAF
AWS WAF
Pros
- + Edge-level blocking on CloudFront stops bad traffic before it reaches the origin
- + Transparent metered pricing with AWS's own worked cost examples published
- + AWS managed rule groups (OWASP CRS, SQLi, IP reputation) cost $1 each per month
- + Written SLA: 99.95% monthly uptime per region with defined service credits
- + Full API/CloudFormation coverage and deep CloudWatch and logging integration
Cons
- - Useless outside AWS — only protects CloudFront, ALB, API Gateway and AppSync resources
- - Web ACL Capacity Unit overages and Bot Control per-request fees can multiply the bill
- - Rule authoring is verbose JSON; serious use needs AWS and infrastructure-as-code skills
- - No free tier and no bundled DDoS cost protection without the separate Shield Advanced subscription
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