Azure Front Door vs Fastly comparison

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Azure Front Door 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.

To learn more, read our detailed Azure Front Door vs. Fastly Report (Updated: June 2024).

Azure Front Door vs. Fastly

June 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Front Door

Ranking in CDN

3rd

Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)

9th

Average Rating

8.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Microsoft Security Suite (15th)

Fastly

Ranking in CDN

7th

Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)

17th

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection (9th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the CDN category, the mindshare of Azure Front Door is 22.7%, up from 17.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Fastly is 4.4%, up from 4.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

CDN

Unique Categories:

Web Application Firewall (WAF)

3.8%

Microsoft Security Suite

2.7%

Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection

2.1%

Featured Reviews

reviewer2315781

Software architect at CDW

Nov 28, 2023

The product provides excellent documentation and easy-to-use features, and it enables organizations to set up content security policies

Our website is built through a Gatsby process and generic static files. All the static content for the site gets hosted in the CDN. We use Azure Front Door as an entry point for it The solution has improved our organization by allowing us to utilize the Rules Engine feature. Rules Engine is a…

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reviewer2335209

Information Technology Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jan 22, 2024

Offers an edge and shield configuration, enhancing security and performance and integrates seamlessly with deployed pipelines, allowing for configuration as code

Fastly's instant purging feature improved our content monitoring processes. One of the differences between CloudFront and Fastly is the time to purge. So, Fastly's time to purge is very quick. And we've automated it with some front-end API calls. We've even integrated it with Slack so that we can push that clearing of content to a Telstra approach. So the content developer or the person who has the issue with the stale content can actually be empowered to clear their own cache without having to go through someone with the appropriate permissions. So, the fact that we can expose that with API calls is pretty good. Moreover, I can see service history and service metrics. So, it's mostly metrics and historical data. For example, how many times do specific properties have the highest rate of, say, 500 errors or something? Moreover, Fastly helps our company manage a traffic spike during some high-traffic attempts if we have any. Fastly's request collapsing is their secret sauce, and you get that with Varnish. That's really their massive value proposition, and that they in high traffic spike, even if we have our caching configuration low, it still protects our origin from a big traffic stop because we only get, like, one request coming in. Because that's what they do. They collapse the request such that we might get a thousand people asking for the same piece of data that's not in the cache, but they don't come at us with a thousand requests, the origin. They send one request to the origin and then wait for it to come back, and then they populate the sibling characters with that answer. So it's a sort of table state functionality that they provide that is really key to their value proposition.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It inspects the traffic at the network level before it comes into Azure. We can do SSL offloading, and it can detect abnormalities before the traffic comes into the application. It can be used globally and is easy to set up. It is also quite stable and scalable."

"The price is one of the most important aspects of the product. It's quite affordable."

"The most valuable feature is that you can implement resources globally. It does not depend on location and ability or something like that. This is to connect clients around the world."

"I particularly appreciate its load-balancing capabilities as it allows us to manage multiple instances and support a global presence effectively."

"Rules Engine is a valuable feature."

"I am impressed with the tool's integrations."

"You can assign as many web application firewall policies as you want to the same instance of Front Door."

"The web application firewall is a great feature."

More Azure Front Door pros

"Its initial setup process is straightforward."

"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."

"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."

"The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly."

"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."

Cons

"The user interface needs improvement as it is difficult to create the mapping to link the problem with your private address sources."

"This is a relatively expensive solution."

"There is room for improvement and they're working on it."

"The product needs to improve its latency."

"It lacks sufficient functionality."

"My suggestion for improvement would be to enhance the Data Export feature to include specific tables, particularly the Azure Diagnostics table."

"I'm responsible for the governance and cost control of Azure. I'm not a specialist in any products and therefore I couldn't really speak effectively to features that are lacking or missing."

"We should be able to use Front Door defenders with multiple cloud vendors. Currently, they can be used only with the Azure cloud. Azure Front Door should also be able to do global load balancing and provide internal front door services. Microsoft should clearly define what Traffic Manager, Application Gateway, and Azure Front Door products do. These are similar products, and people get confused between these products."

More Azure Front Door cons

"The solution's pricing could be better."

"Support is not that great."

"The product should provide improved bot detection and management."

"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement."

"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."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is expensive."

"It is on a pay-as-you-go basis."

"The solution is a bit expensive."

"The pricing of the solution is good."

"The transition to the premium tier has led to increased costs, making it more expensive than the classic tier."

"I've generally found Fastly to be very competitive in pricing, especially around Compute@Edge."

"It is an expensive solution."

"The solution is cheaper than other products in the market."

"In my opinion, Fastly is priced competitively."

"Fastly is less expensive than one of its competitors."

"The pricing has been very competitive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What's the difference between Azure Front Door and Application Gateway?

We found Azure Front Door to be easily scaled and very stable. The implementation is very fast and Microsoft provides excellent support. Azure Front Door can quickly detect abnormalities before the...

What do you like most about Azure Front Door?

Rules Engine is a valuable feature.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Front Door?

The transition to the premium tier has led to increased costs, making it more expensive than the classic tier. However, we acknowledge that this pricing reflects additional features and capabilities.

What do you like most about Fastly?

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.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fastly?

The pricing has been very competitive.

What needs improvement with Fastly?

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...

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Overview

Azure Front Door is a global, scalable entry-point that uses the Microsoft global edge network to create fast, secure, and widely scalable web applications. With Front Door, you can transform your global consumer and enterprise applications into robust, high-performing personalized modern applications with contents that reach a global audience through Azure.

To learn more about our solution, ask questions, and share feedback, join our Microsoft Security, Compliance and Identity Community.

Fastly helps the world’s most popular digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Businesses trust Fastly’s edge cloud platform to accelerate the pace of technical innovation, mitigate evolving threats, and scale on demand.

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Twitter, Airbnb, Alaska Airlines, Pinterest, Vimeo, The Guardian, The New York Times, Ticketmaster, The Drupal Association, Opera, about.com, imgur, Etsy, Foursquare, GitHub, New Relic, shopify, Shazam, Firebase