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IMO Perfomance wise CloudFront and Cloudfront are quite similar.

I've migrated from CloudFront+AWS WAF to just CloudFlare given Cloudflare's superior (100x better) WAF/Firewall/DDOS protection at a lower cost

IMO Perfomance wise CloudFront and Cloudfront are quite similar.

Yes I don't think the capitalization has too much impact.

He made a typo.

Yes I don't think the capitalization has too much impact.

You missed a comma.

Out of curiosity, what makes Clousflare's WAF so much better?

CF have more options, filters, settings, realtime reports, rules and statistics..

Additionally CF ofers a good set of system managed WAF rules that you can simply active and CF will manage it for you.

With AWS you're basically on your own. More or less is a bare bones WAF tool.

This isn't accurate. AWS added Managed Rulesets several years ago: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/solutions/security/waf-ma...

The ability to scan the whole of a request body rather than just the first 8kB.

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