Fastly Reviews

Name: Fastly
Brand: Fastly
Rating: 4 (7 reviews)

4.3 out of 5

7 reviews
100% willing to recommend

258 followers

What is Fastly?

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.

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Fastly is the #6 ranked solution in top CDN solutions, #11 ranked solution in top Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions, and #18 ranked solution in top Web Application Firewalls. PeerSpot users give Fastly an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. Fastly is most commonly compared to Cloudflare: Fastly vs Cloudflare. Fastly is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 57% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 18% of all views.

Helped 813,418 peers since 2012

Featured reviews

Nick Wilsdon

CEO at Torque

I use the product mostly for its Compute@Edge capabilities. Fastly is a content delivery network with various functions inside CDN. It has a functionality around security. It also has a content delivery functionality, which is a more standard function within CDN. If you are accessing a website…

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Archana Heeralal

Security Engineer at Amazon

We use the solution for CDN, preventing Layer 7, Layer 3, and Layer 4 DDoS attacks, and for Layer 7 web application attacks Overall, it is a good product. If we make any changes in one version and it doesn't work or something goes wrong, we can revert to the old version. We will not lose our…

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Shubham Chakraworty

Infrastructure Engineer at Infosys

We use Fastly to track the logs to get the details in case of malware attacks The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly. It makes the sites more reliable. Fastly's UI is reliable. We can use coding with Terraform to configure it with ease. Fastly's…

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Fastly mindshare

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As of October 2024, the mindshare of Fastly in the CDN category stands at 3.5%, up from 2.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

CDN

Key learnings from peers

Last updated Sep 4, 2024

Valuable Features

"The product's initial setup phase is straightforward."
"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."

Room for Improvement

"What I don't like about Fastly is that they charge a heavy price."
"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."
"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement."

Pricing

"You need to pay a premium price for the tool."
"The pricing has been very competitive."
"Fastly is less expensive than one of its competitors."

These insights are based on the in-depth reviews provided by peers to help you make a better buying decision.

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Top industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

University

Hospitality Company

Media Company

Non Profit

Healthcare Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Construction Company

Insurance Company

Government

Real Estate/Law Firm

Legal Firm

Consumer Goods Company

Educational Organization

Outsourcing Company

Recreational Facilities/Services Company

Wholesaler/Distributor

Performing Arts

Pharma/Biotech Company

Marketing Services Firm

Aerospace/Defense Firm

Sports Company

Transportation Company

Leisure / Travel Company

Logistics Company

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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