We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudFront and Fastly 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."If you're using AWS entirely, it's smooth sailing."
"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to deliver content to users nearby."
"The AWS environment was very helpful in terms of integration."
"The tool is highly available and reliable. It helps to access server applications easily. Integrating Amazon CloudFront with other AWS services was very easy, I would rate it eight out of ten."
"The solution has many features that are comprehensive."
"We can personalize a lot of things inside CDN."
"The speed and usability of the solution are valuable."
"It has built-in DDoS protection, which protects against DDoS attacks."
"Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
"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."
"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."
"Support needs to be enhanced."
"The product could support any network load balancer. At present, we can use only Amazon’s load balancer application."
"The UI could be more user-friendly."
"The support must be improved."
"Amazon CloudFront can improve by accurately determining the latency of a non-defined URL that the solution encounters."
"The tool must provide regional control."
"Improvements are needed as per customer requirements."
"Sometimes, the server goes down automatically."
"The product should provide improved bot detection and management."
"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."
"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."
Amazon CloudFront is ranked 4th in CDN with 22 reviews while Fastly is ranked 7th in CDN with 6 reviews. Amazon CloudFront is rated 8.2, while Fastly is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudFront writes "Top-notch in terms of customer service and offers pay-as-you-go model with a free tier". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fastly writes "An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support". Amazon CloudFront is most compared with Azure Front Door, Akamai, Cloudflare, Windows Azure CDN and AWS Global Accelerator, whereas Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF and Imperva DDoS. See our Amazon CloudFront vs. Fastly report.
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