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We performed a comparison between Fastly and The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Fastly vs. The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"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.""Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks.""Its initial setup process is straightforward.""Compute@Edge features are valuable to me.""The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly."

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"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to set up the rules easily.""When configuring a web application firewall using Signal Sciences, we configure a rule whereby no one except a few people can access the application."

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

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"Even if we create some custom rules, Signal Sciences cannot capture some of the malicious traffic.""The areas that could be improved in Signal Sciences include the effectiveness of rules, as many didn't function optimally and required custom rule-writing to address bypasses for WAF."

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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."
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  • "Signal Sciences is pretty cheap compared to other solutions."
  • "The product has an affordable cost."
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    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:The product's most valuable feature is its ability to set up the rules easily.
    Top Answer:The areas that could be improved in Signal Sciences include the effectiveness of rules, as many didn't function optimally and required custom rule-writing to address bypasses for WAF. Additionally… more »
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    Also Known As
    Signal Sciences Next-Gen WAF, Signal Sciences RASP
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    Fastly
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    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.

    The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) provides web application and API protection, RASP, rate limiting, bot protection and DDoS purpose built to eliminate the challenges of legacy WAF.

    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
    Chef, Adobe, Datadog, Etsy, GrubHub, Vimeo, SendGrid, Under Armour, Duo, AppNexus
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Retailer8%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization24%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Company Size
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    Small Business71%
    Large Enterprise29%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise58%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise30%
    Large Enterprise51%
    Buyer's Guide
    Fastly vs. The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Fastly vs. The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    769,630 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Fastly is ranked 17th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 6 reviews while The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) is ranked 28th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 2 reviews. Fastly is rated 8.6, while The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Fastly writes "An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) writes "A good solution to implement web application firewall for applications". Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS WAF, Amazon CloudFront and F5 Advanced WAF, whereas The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) is most compared with AWS WAF, Cloudflare, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Azure Web Application Firewall and Akamai App and API Protector. See our Fastly vs. The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) report.

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