We performed a comparison between Fastly and Windows Azure CDN 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."Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
"Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks."
"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."
"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."
"The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly."
"We use the product for faster content delivery with low latency."
"The fact that it just delivers what it is supposed to do is its most valuable feature...The initial setup is very straightforward."
"One of the tool's best features is its ability to handle edge cases. For instance, we encountered a situation where we needed to remove certain files from public access. The solution offered a purge feature that allowed us to remove these files. This feature ensured that the files were deleted from all edge servers. Subsequently, we were able to upload new versions of the files."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Windows Azure CDN is its effectiveness."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that one can access Windows Azure CDN from anywhere."
"The UI is very intuitive."
"I enjoy engaging in discussions with colleagues possessing unique expertise. I leverage the three platforms—Azure, Google, and AWS extensively. This allows me to offer diverse solutions to customers, commonly referred to as a multi-cloud approach."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"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."
"Support is not that great."
"The product should provide improved bot detection and management."
"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."
"They should include configuration for cache rules."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"I aim to enhance the reporting."
"Exploring shared access solutions with cloud accounts would be a beneficial choice."
"We have experienced issues with switch connectivity."
"The response time of the support team must be improved."
"The high price of Windows Azure CDN is an area of concern where improvements can be made."
"I believe Windows Azure CDN can improve monitoring and measuring overall end-user performance. Providing monitoring tools or agents that can be integrated into our pages would be highly beneficial. Setting up a custom domain with Windows Azure CDN involves proving domain ownership, which can take some time. The process is relatively straightforward if your DNS or domain registrar is already integrated with Microsoft. However, the verification process may be more time-consuming if you use a different service provider."
Fastly is ranked 7th in CDN with 6 reviews while Windows Azure CDN is ranked 6th in CDN with 10 reviews. Fastly is rated 8.6, while Windows Azure CDN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fastly writes "An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Windows Azure CDN writes "A globally distributed network of servers that can efficiently deliver web content to consumers". Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, AWS WAF, Akamai and Edgio Global CDN, whereas Windows Azure CDN is most compared with Amazon CloudFront, Akamai, Azure Front Door and Verizon EdgeCast. See our Fastly vs. Windows Azure CDN report.
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