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."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."
"Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks."
"Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."
"One of the most valuable aspects is the capability to store extensive datasets and objects in the cloud, enabling their download through shared access signatures."
"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."
"We use the product for faster content delivery with low latency."
"The UI is very intuitive."
"The geolocation feature is very important because many colleagues travel worldwide and need to access information from anywhere. The product has improved security."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"Azure is continuously improving its CDN but the documentation should be up-to-date."
"The high price of Windows Azure CDN is an area of concern where improvements can be made."
"We have experienced issues with switch connectivity."
"There were a few bugs that were very disappointing. So, that is a part of the reason why we started using Fastly."
"Windows Azure CDN should lower its prices."
"The response time of the support team must be improved."
"I aim to enhance the reporting."
"Exploring shared access solutions with cloud accounts would be a beneficial choice."
Fastly is ranked 7th in CDN with 6 reviews while Windows Azure CDN is ranked 5th in CDN with 12 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, Akamai, AWS WAF, Amazon CloudFront and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, whereas Windows Azure CDN is most compared with Amazon CloudFront, Akamai, Azure Front Door and StackPath CDN. See our Fastly vs. Windows Azure CDN report.
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