Fastly vs Imperva DDoS comparison

Cancel
You must select at least 2 products to compare!
Fastly Logo
1,400 views|1,164 comparisons
Imperva Logo
4,269 views|3,548 comparisons
Comparison Buyer's Guide
Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Fastly and Imperva DDoS 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Fastly vs. Imperva DDoS Report (Updated: March 2024).
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Featured Review
Quotes From Members
We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use.
Here are some excerpts of what they said:
Pros
"The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly.""Compute@Edge features are valuable to me.""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.""Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute.""Its initial setup process is straightforward."

More Fastly Pros →

"IncapRules is one of the most valuable features, as you can create your own security and access control rules on top of your security policy. Using IncapRules we were able to easily block Layer 7 DDoS attacks several times.""The solution has a very good interface.""On the real time, you can see live traffic, which is flowing into our website.""Its unique interface for managing security performance and ease of use are the most valuable features of this solution.""Real-time monitoring is also a great tool, as you may watch several parameters in real time.""Imperva DDoS is fairly stable, and its availability is quite high.""Gives us the ability to trace each connection, and to have logs to be able to differentiate between a positive and a false-positive intruder action.""This product is a reliable defense from malicious attacks on a network environment."

More Imperva DDoS Pros →

Cons
"The solution's pricing could be better.""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.""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."

More Fastly Cons →

"There’s nothing that’s missing in terms of features.""I miss being able to integrate the dashboard with other BI tools we are using. We have to export and import data to be able to present it, and doing so is a lot of work.""Imperva DDoS does not provide version control.""The solution should integrate with something that looks at continuous security management.""We would like them to hire people in Sweden because it's quite hard when people are sitting in the UK or Belgium because some of the customers really want them to be local.""A limited tool if you're looking to customize.""I am not sure if this application has a policy where you can create your custom policy and run it as our firewall. We should have some ability to also create some custom policy, then run it as a firewall.""We had an issue when securing the web applications for DDoS protection."

More Imperva DDoS Cons →

Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "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."
  • More Fastly Pricing and Cost Advice →

  • "For enterprise contracts you will be in touch with a dedicated account manager who will guide you regarding licensing."
  • "​Although the pricing can be a little high, it is worth the protection and security that it offers.​"
  • "The data packages are higher than our needs so we end up paying for data that we don't use."
  • "The cost is on par with other solutions such as Cloudflare and Akamai."
  • "It is not expensive compared to the other similar solutions in this category."
  • "It is a very expensive solution. The price is very high. A lot of customers tell us that they would love to use Imperva more. I have some customers who have 50 websites, but they have only 10 websites on Imperva because of the price. They would love to have all their websites running through Imperva, but they can't. They have to choose the more critical websites to protect because the price is very high. It is a very good product, but it is too expensive. If you buy a plan for 20 megabytes and you don't consume all of your 20 megabytes, it is okay, but if you consume more, you are charged for the superior traffic."
  • "The cost is somewhere around $10,000 a site. For every site, you pay individually. For every DNS entry, you have you pay."
  • "It is expensive."
  • More Imperva DDoS Pricing and Cost Advice →

    report
    Use our free recommendation engine to learn which CDN solutions are best for your needs.
    765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.
    Comparison Review
    Anonymous User
    Questions from the Community
    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 »
    Top Answer:We use Imperva DDoS to stop DDoS attacks and reduce the amount of unwanted queries against web services or web scraping.
    Top Answer:The solution is very affordable. It's based on the traffic utilization, the average traffic utilization, not the DDoS traffic. Therefore, if you're being DDoSed, you don't pay extra for the absorption… more »
    Top Answer:It’s hard to think of an improvement. The three-second service level agreement is already better than the competition. You would ordinarily say something like API protection. However, they've got that… more »
    Ranking
    7th
    out of 34 in CDN
    Views
    1,400
    Comparisons
    1,164
    Reviews
    5
    Average Words per Review
    591
    Rating
    8.6
    5th
    out of 34 in CDN
    Views
    4,269
    Comparisons
    3,548
    Reviews
    5
    Average Words per Review
    443
    Rating
    8.2
    Comparisons
    Cloudflare logo
    Compared 17% of the time.
    AWS WAF logo
    Compared 13% of the time.
    Akamai logo
    Compared 12% of the time.
    Edgio Global CDN logo
    Compared 10% of the time.
    F5 Advanced WAF logo
    Compared 6% of the time.
    Cloudflare logo
    Compared 28% of the time.
    Akamai logo
    Compared 15% of the time.
    Arbor DDoS logo
    Compared 8% of the time.
    Radware DefensePro logo
    Compared 5% of the time.
    Fortinet FortiWeb logo
    Compared 2% of the time.
    Also Known As
    Imperva Incapsula
    Learn More
    Overview
    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.

    Imperva DDoS is a solution that offers protection for web applications and websites and all their associated business-critical data from cyberattacks. The cloud-based application delivery service helps improve user experiences by improving their performance. Through its security platform, Imperva DDoS also provides DDoS mitigation, a web application firewall, and a global load balancer, and includes a content delivery network — all designed to maximize performance.

    Imperva DDoS Features

    Imperva DDoS has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • API security
    • Web application firewall
    • Bot management
    • Application delivery
    • Runtime protection (RASP)
    • Discovery and assessment
    • Data protection
    • Data risk analytics
    • Data privacy
    • Application delivery control (ADC)
    • Content delivery network (CDN)
    • DDoS mitigation
    • Global server load-balancing (GSLB)
    • Web application firewall (WAF)
    • Client-side protection
    • Runtime protection

    Imperva DDoS Benefits

    There are several benefits to implementing Imperva DDoS. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Reduce web application risk: Imperva DDoS includes automatic policy creation and fast rule propagation that give your IT and security departments the ability to use third-party code without risk while working at the pace of DevOps.
    • Security from edge to database: Imperva DDoS’s WAF feature secures from edge to database, so the traffic you receive is only the traffic you want.
    • Safeguard sensitive and personal data: Imperva DDoS provides visibility into sensitive and personal data, with the controls to protect that data and the ability to unify management across cloud, on-premises, and in hybrid environments to help accommodate changing threats, new regulations, and challenging audits.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Imperva DDoS users.

    PeerSpot user, Etienne W., CDN & Cybersecurity Engineer - Web performance & security at CDN Tech / Ecritel, says, “It is a good solution that allows us to protect websites. It is stable, scalable, quick and easy to use.” He goes on to explain, “WAF protection works almost out-of-the-box. The Anti-DDoS mitigation in less than 1s, I saw it many times in production, I can say it works. CDN has high performances, and the Smart Caching mode is really "smart" (you can do some efficient caching even if you're not a specialist). Its unique interface for managing security performance and ease of use are the most valuable features of this solution."

    An IT Senior Manager at an outsourcing company mentions, “The most valuable features are DDoS protection. The Incapsula [Imperva DDoS] environment helps us monitor all the web activity. All the web activity is passed through their WAF cloud services, then that can help us to monitor those activities. That can help protect against DDoS hacking.”

    Another PeerSpot reviewer, Ben D., Sales Executive at EVVO LABS, comments, "Imperva Incapsula [DDoS] has many valuable features. One, it protects the top 10 OWASP vulnerability, the open web application software platform, this is standard. Secondly, it protects against broken authentication. As well, it has remote execution of code."

    A Solutions Architect at a financial services firm states, “The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is easy to configure. The solution keeps itself up to date itself and there's no customization that we need to do. It makes it extremely easy and cuts back on the amount of work required, and saves us on man-hours.”

    Sample Customers
    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
    Hitachi, BNZ, Bitstamp, Moz, InnoGames, BTCChina, Wix, LivePerson, Zillow and more.
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Retailer9%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm19%
    Non Tech Company11%
    Marketing Services Firm8%
    Insurance Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business71%
    Large Enterprise29%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise57%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business49%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise38%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise62%
    Buyer's Guide
    Fastly vs. Imperva DDoS
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Fastly vs. Imperva DDoS and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Fastly is ranked 7th in CDN with 6 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 5th in CDN with 74 reviews. Fastly is rated 8.6, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Fastly writes "An easy-to-use and flexible product that protects from volumetric threats". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva DDoS writes "I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions". Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, AWS WAF, Akamai, Edgio Global CDN and F5 Advanced WAF, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and Fortinet FortiWeb. See our Fastly vs. Imperva DDoS report.

    See our list of best CDN vendors, best Web Application Firewall (WAF) vendors, and best Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection vendors.

    We monitor all CDN reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.