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AWS Global Accelerator vs F5 Distributed Cloud Services comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Global Accelerator
Ranking in CDN
9th
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
F5 Distributed Cloud Services
Ranking in CDN
10th
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.4
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Web Application Firewall (WAF) (20th), API Security (8th), AWS Marketplace (23rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the CDN category, the mindshare of AWS Global Accelerator is 5.3%, down from 5.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of F5 Distributed Cloud Services is 1.2%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Protects web applications with comprehensive security features
All features are valuable. In a multi-cloud or distributed cloud, there are many protection possibilities from data to web application or API protection, including bot mitigation. This is a comprehensive package for web application security. The main benefit is Web App Security, offering a complete security package from DDoS to web application firewall, API protection, and bot mitigation.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Real Estate/Law Firm
6%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Insurance Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

How do I choose between AWS Global Accelerator and Amazon CloudFront?
Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether Amazon’s Web Service Global Accelerator or Amazon CloudFront global content delivery network was the better fit for us. We decided to go w...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for F5 Distributed Cloud Services?
I am not involved in sales, so I do not deal with the pricing aspect directly. I give the cost of the solution a four out of ten since it is not a cheap product.
What needs improvement with F5 Distributed Cloud Services?
It's a long way to be perfect, of course, as with all solutions. The main issue is integration with other parts or products of F5, like on-premise WAF. There are some problems, mainly from the pers...
What is your primary use case for F5 Distributed Cloud Services?
There are two main use cases for Distributed Call Services: DDoS or Distributed attacks protection and WAF web application security or firewall.
 

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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
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