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."
"The AWS environment was very helpful in terms of integration."
"It has built-in DDoS protection, which protects against DDoS attacks."
"The solution has many features that are comprehensive."
"The most valuable feature is the number of servers they can put your content in while being reliable."
"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to deliver content to users nearby."
"It is stable."
"If you're using AWS entirely, it's smooth sailing."
"Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks."
"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."
"The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly."
"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."
"Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute."
"The UI could be more user-friendly."
"Amazon CloudFront is harder to understand compared to Azure."
"The solution could be more simplified for new users. It could be more user-friendly."
"The product could support any network load balancer. At present, we can use only Amazon’s load balancer application."
"They should have more Edge locations so that CloudFront can be used much more. If they can make it a little bit cheaper and better than other networks, we will be able to use it more."
"During the setup phase, there were some hiccups in terms of security, the user role, and the permissions."
"A lot of caching features must be added to the solution."
"Support needs to be enhanced."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"The product should provide improved bot detection and management."
"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."
"Support is not that great."
"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."
Amazon CloudFront is ranked 4th in CDN with 18 reviews while Fastly is ranked 7th in CDN with 6 reviews. Amazon CloudFront is rated 8.0, 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, AWS WAF, Akamai, Edgio Global CDN and Imperva DDoS. See our Amazon CloudFront vs. Fastly report.
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