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My main use case for F5 Distributed Cloud Services is WAF protection.

I am using F5 Distributed Cloud Services primarily for securing my infrastructure with layer 7 protection, which F5 provides. The scenarios and use cases I am protecting involve geo-blocking, rate limiting, and allowing specific traffic to my applications. I have OWASP Top 10 protections enabled, as F5 Distributed Cloud Services offers OWASP Top 10 for layer 7 protections, which provides multiple protection capabilities.

I appreciate the UI of F5 Distributed Cloud Services and the backend cost, alongside the actual value proposition that they provide with the load balancer, which is excellent.

In my opinion, the best features F5 Distributed Cloud Services offers include their ability to operate without running on the cloud, which is why they provide good value to Indian customers. This feature benefits my organization by providing overall value and cost with the product. When I say the product is not hosted on the cloud, I mean that the product itself is managed by data centers as most clouds do. However, their seamless management of their own data center and the fact that F5 Distributed Cloud Services holds its own data center is what benefits customers in India.

One area where F5 Distributed Cloud Services can be improved is in API security, which can be enhanced.

Specifically, the confidence level on API security that F5 Distributed Cloud Services provides can be improved, especially if they can discover APIs in a better manner than all of their competitors.

I have been using F5 Distributed Cloud Services for approximately three months.

I have seen specific outcomes where it has improved security. It has not saved time, but it has reduced costs for the first year at least.

I would estimate the cost was reduced by approximately 30 percent in the first year.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services offers a bundle of use cases which are certainly good for a WAF and API. Regarding F5 Distributed Cloud Services's AI capabilities, I think their governance and security are good. I note that they are working on AI but have not yet released anything; they are combining something from AI and working in the backend, so I would say it is progressing well.

I rate F5 Distributed Cloud Services an eight out of ten overall.

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My primary use case for Fastly is using it as a CDN to speed up my customers' access to the applications.

A specific example of how Fastly has helped improve my customers' access to the application is that it caches static content and makes it more quickly accessible to users. Additionally, internally it allows me to evolve through code and not go through configuration with many clicks as I had to do with other alternative products. Here it allows me to integrate it directly into the code.

I consider the best features that Fastly offers to be cost and the ability to have it integrated into the code development flow.

I have noticed a significant difference in cost compared to other similar solutions.

Fastly has a wide number of configuration features that can be performed, and I emphasize that they can be done from code, which makes it much more traceable.

Fastly has positively impacted my organization by helping to obtain better solutions in less time and in a much more traceable way. A specific example that reflects that impact is that we have improvements in traceability by having the changes integrated into the Git repositories and having the possibility of doing a rollback in the event of any problem in a very simple way.

I think Fastly could improve by improving the documentation and having some code examples so that it is easier for developers, since at the beginning it becomes a bit complicated.

I have been using Fastly for a year and a half.

I consider Fastly to be stable.

I rate the scalability of Fastly as very good.

I would describe Fastly's customer support as fast and efficient when I have had to use it. I rate customer support on a scale from 1 to 10 as eight.

I used CloudFront before Fastly, and I decided to switch because of this product's greater capabilities and lower costs.

I have seen a return on investment, particularly in time savings, especially regarding the changes.

In terms of price, I find it good, and as I mentioned, the implementation cost had some difficulty at the beginning due to the learning curve.

My advice to others who are considering using Fastly is that they evaluate it and not always think of using the native CDN of the cloud they work in. I rate this review as a seven out of ten.

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