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We performed a comparison between AWS Global Accelerator and Fastly based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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  • "In my opinion, Fastly is priced competitively."
  • "It is an expensive solution."
  • "The solution is cheaper than other products in the market."
  • "I've generally found Fastly to be very competitive in pricing, especially around Compute@Edge."
  • "Fastly is less expensive than one of its competitors."
  • "The pricing has been very competitive."
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    Top Answer: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 with… more »
    Top Answer:Below, you'll find more information on how CloudFront compares against Global Accelerator. Still, if you need to deliver static and dynamic content to users worldwide, CloudFront may be a good choice… more »
    Top Answer: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.
    Top Answer: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… more »
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    Overview

    AWS Global Accelerator is a service that improves the availability and performance of your applications with local or global users. It provides static IP addresses that act as a fixed entry point to your application endpoints in a single or multiple AWS Regions, such as your Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers or Amazon EC2 instances.

    AWS Global Accelerator uses the AWS global network to optimize the path from your users to your applications, improving the performance of your TCP and UDP traffic. AWS Global Accelerator continually monitors the health of your application endpoints and redirects traffic to healthy endpoints in less than 30 seconds.

    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.
    Sample Customers
    Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
    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
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company22%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    University6%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Retailer9%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise66%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business71%
    Large Enterprise29%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise58%
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    AWS Global Accelerator is ranked 8th in CDN while Fastly is ranked 7th in CDN with 6 reviews. AWS Global Accelerator is rated 0.0, while Fastly is rated 8.6. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fastly writes "An easy-to-use and flexible product that protects from volumetric threats". AWS Global Accelerator is most compared with Azure Front Door, Cloudflare, Akamai and Amazon CloudFront, whereas Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, AWS WAF, Akamai, Edgio Global CDN and Windows Azure CDN.

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