We performed a comparison between Fastly and Verizon EdgeCast based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, Microsoft, Akamai and others in CDN."Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks."
"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."
"The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly."
"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."
"The Rules Engine V4 is the most valuable feature."
"The product is easy to use and easy to implement."
"It's super easy to use and integrate with."
"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement."
"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."
"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."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"We could not create more than 15 custom rules."
"The web interface of the Verizon Edgecast portal is very old. It's not user-friendly, slow, and it is missing some valuable features like the ability to make bulk changes."
"In the next release, I would like to see more global endpoints for their CDN and a lower price."
Fastly is ranked 7th in CDN with 6 reviews while Verizon EdgeCast is ranked 11th in CDN with 3 reviews. Fastly is rated 8.6, while Verizon EdgeCast is rated 7.6. 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 Verizon EdgeCast writes "The product is easy to use and easy to implement, but we have to raise new feature requests frequently because the product is new". Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, AWS WAF, Akamai, Edgio Global CDN and Amazon CloudFront, whereas Verizon EdgeCast is most compared with Akamai, Windows Azure CDN, Edgio Global CDN, Cloudflare and Azure Front Door.
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