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."The image loading process is easy and cost-effective too."
"The solution has many features that are comprehensive."
"It is an expensive product with valuable features."
"The product provides reduced latency and quicker site refreshes."
"If you're using AWS entirely, it's smooth sailing."
"The AWS environment was very helpful in terms of integration."
"Feature-wise, I like the solution's signed URL because it provides security for me."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the speed of delivery."
"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."
"Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks."
"The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
"Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute."
"Amazon CloudFront is harder to understand compared to Azure."
"The solution can benefit from expanding its data center and server locations to multiple places for smoother content delivery with even lower latency. The latency we experience is sufficient for our needs, and we are doing well. However, if they expand their locations in the future, it could be a positive factor. Its competitors have multiple data and server locations."
"The product could support any network load balancer. At present, we can use only Amazon’s load balancer application."
"The solution could be more simplified for new users. It could be more user-friendly."
"The support must be improved."
"With a mixed stack, things become a problem. With GCP and Azure, the DNS setup gets tricky when using CloudFront."
"I have utilized certain characteristics and invested effort in reading the documentation, which proved to be challenging."
"The UI could be more user-friendly."
"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."
"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."
"Support is not that great."
"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
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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