We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) and Fastly based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Its performance and ease of use are valuable."
"CGNAT is one of its strong areas."
"It is stable."
"The most valuable features of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) are the web gateway, load balancing, services, and applications available."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP AFM is the iRules where I can customize the configuration."
"This product excells in every aspect from installation and the interface to providing superior network security."
"I find the signature base is very helpful to see traffic"
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP AFM is all of my workers enjoy using it."
"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."
"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."
"Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
"The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly."
"The product is expensive."
"We would have preferred to have support when we first started"
"F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager's pricing and technical support services need improvement."
"This would be absolutely the best network security solution if the price were not so high."
"The initial setup of F5 BIG-IP AFM in a complex environment was simple. However, the full deployment took us approximately one year."
"Firstly, geolocation currently relies on manual updates. It has to move to automatic updates. There are no automatic updates for this feature. If some IPs, countries, or service providers move to another country, now you will be allow IPs that you previously denied. This is because you depend on the database, which doesn't update automatically. This is really a very important area that they need to improve."
"Some spam can go by the firewall."
"The solution's UI could be improved."
"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."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement."
"The product should provide improved bot detection and management."
"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."
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F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is ranked 8th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 21 reviews while Fastly is ranked 10th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 6 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4, while Fastly is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) writes "Straightforward setup with very good granularity and performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fastly writes "An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support". F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with Arbor DDoS, AWS Shield and Radware DefensePro, whereas Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS WAF, Amazon CloudFront and F5 Advanced WAF. See our F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) vs. Fastly report.
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