We performed a comparison between Akamai 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."The solution's technical support is very good...The installation phase of Akamai was easy."
"The solution is very sustainable and flexible."
"As of now, the best thing about Akamai is WAF, and though CDN is a good feature, it comes in second place when compared to WAF. I am very impressed with the WAF offered by Akamai."
"The solution's technical support is very prompt and good."
"If an attacker conducts an attack, we can check what query he is running and whether he wants to see our password or any other files."
"The most valuable feature in managing web traffic has been the ability to handle vertical scaling effectively."
"It's a scalable and reliable solution."
"We can see how much traffic can be downloaded on the portal."
"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."
"Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute."
"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."
"Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
"Caching strategy is an area with certain shortcomings in the solution where improvements are required."
"While it's great for solutions with high scalability, like global e-commerce, it's not really built for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). It has too many options and can be complex for SMBs to utilize."
"I'd like to see improvements in log files and data visualizations within the interface."
"One area for improvement with Akamai could be pricing."
"Akamai's configuration part is an area of concern where improvements are required to make the process easy."
"The solution could offer more integrations."
"Akamai could improve by providing its own cloud services. We have to use third-party cloud services at this time, such as Amazon AWS. The offering becomes a lot easier for an SMB if everything was in one single platform to be used for the services."
"The product's scalability can be improved since certain shortcomings regarding the security part of the solution currently exist."
"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement."
"Support is not that great."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"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."
"The product should provide improved bot detection and management."
"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."
Akamai is ranked 3rd in CDN with 18 reviews while Fastly is ranked 7th in CDN with 6 reviews. Akamai is rated 9.0, while Fastly is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Akamai writes "An easy to setup product offering multiple useful functionalities under a single package". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fastly writes "An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support". Akamai is most compared with Cloudflare, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, Amazon CloudFront and AWS Global Accelerator, whereas Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, AWS WAF, Amazon CloudFront, F5 Advanced WAF and Imperva DDoS. See our Akamai vs. Fastly report.
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