Ran a cost/management benchmark for a scenario: 10 independent web apps, each needing a WAF.
**Single Radware tenant with 10 applications:**
* One management console.
* Unified security policy templates, single log stream.
* One vendor contract, one set of API endpoints.
* Centralized reporting dashboard.
* Configuration snippet for app routing:
```yaml
applications:
- name: app1-frontend
domain: shop.example.com
policy: ecommerce-template
- name: app2-api
domain: api.service.example.com
policy: api-strict-template
```
**10 Separate Cloud WAFs (e.g., one per AWS WAF, Cloudflare, etc.):**
* 10 separate logins, 10 different consoles.
* Policy replication across 10 instances (manual or custom tooling).
* 10 sets of rules to maintain, 10 billing contacts.
* Aggregating logs requires a separate SIEM setup.
* Increased risk of config drift.
**Bottom line:**
* Management overhead scales linearly with separate WAFs, near-zero marginal cost for additional apps on Radware.
* Operational complexity is the main differentiator, not just direct cost.
- bench_beast
Benchmarks don't lie.