Web application firewall from Alibaba Cloud that proxies site traffic for filtering and DDoS protection.
Found via: StackScope Discovery (Indie) 1 · StackScope Wider Web 3
Alibaba Cloud WAF has been detected on 4 launches since first appearing in August 2026. Most recent detection: DanzMe, 6 days ago.
Share of new sites using Alibaba Cloud WAF
Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average. Chart starts at first detection.
Security leaders
| Tool | % of launches | % of category | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | – | HSTS | 47.11% | 91.22% |
| #2 | – |
|
10.76% | 20.84% |
| #3 | – |
|
1.83% | 3.54% |
| #4 | ▲13 |
|
0.10% | 0.19% |
| #5 | ▲11 |
|
0.06% | 0.12% |
| … | ||||
| #88 |
|
<0.01% | <0.01% | |
Percentages show adoption among indie launches: the share of all analysed launches, and of launches using any Security tool. All 213 in Security →
Recent launches we can show
1 of the 4 sites using Alibaba Cloud WAF are product launches we list individually. The other 3 are sites we found crawling the wider web: they count towards the figures above, but we do not publish them one by one. How StackScope Discovery works
The StackScope API serves all 4 sites using Alibaba Cloud WAF, filterable and exportable, from £15 a month.