We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudFront and Fastly based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two CDN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution has good security features."
"If you're using AWS entirely, it's smooth sailing."
"The AWS environment was very helpful in terms of integration."
"We can personalize a lot of things inside CDN."
"It has built-in DDoS protection, which protects against DDoS attacks."
"The beneficial feature for the entire AWS community is the presence of edge location servers. These servers are strategically located in multiple locations, allowing efficient content delivery from the nearest server."
"The product is very well interconnected with other Amazon services."
"The distribution aspect of CloudFront and its ability to reduce latency are most beneficial."
"The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly."
"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."
"Support is good; the product works as advertised. We have a Slack connection with them. So we can basically ask for help, live, engage, and ring when they respond. Very quickly."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
"Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute."
"Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks."
"Support needs to be enhanced."
"Amazon CloudFront is harder to understand compared to Azure."
"The product could support any network load balancer. At present, we can use only Amazon’s load balancer application."
"The tool must provide regional control."
"The UI could be more user-friendly."
"The user interface could be improved."
"Amazon CloudFront's setup is a bit difficult, and we would love it if they made it easier."
"The lack of seamless integration made the setup process more complex and required additional research to manage all the services properly."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"Support is not that great."
"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement."
"The product should provide improved bot detection and management."
"Stronger analytics would be helpful, like showing configurations that haven't served a certain amount of traffic in a while. With many properties, things can get lost track of - duplicates or unused configurations not properly decommissioned."
"It is missing a "staging" platform to deploy a test configuration with all of the real settings, which would allow us to properly test before putting it into production."
Amazon CloudFront is ranked 4th in CDN with 22 reviews while Fastly is ranked 7th in CDN with 6 reviews. Amazon CloudFront is rated 8.2, while Fastly is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudFront writes "Top-notch in terms of customer service and offers pay-as-you-go model with a free tier". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fastly writes "An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support". Amazon CloudFront is most compared with Azure Front Door, Akamai, Cloudflare, Windows Azure CDN and AWS Global Accelerator, whereas Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF and Imperva DDoS. See our Amazon CloudFront vs. Fastly report.
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