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 distribution aspect of CloudFront and its ability to reduce latency are most beneficial."
"The speed and usability of the solution are valuable."
"The product is very well interconnected with other Amazon services."
"It is an expensive product with valuable features."
"If you're using AWS entirely, it's smooth sailing."
"The beneficial feature for the entire AWS community is the presence of edge location servers. These servers are strategically located in multiple locations, allowing efficient content delivery from the nearest server."
"Amazon CloudFront is a stable solution."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the availability of the websites."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
"The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly."
"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."
"Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks."
"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."
"The tool must provide regional control."
"Amazon CloudFront can improve by accurately determining the latency of a non-defined URL that the solution encounters."
"Support needs to be enhanced."
"During the setup phase, there were some hiccups in terms of security, the user role, and the permissions."
"Sometimes, the server goes down automatically."
"The UI could be more user-friendly."
"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 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."
"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."
Amazon CloudFront is ranked 4th in CDN with 21 reviews while Fastly is ranked 7th in CDN with 6 reviews. Amazon CloudFront is rated 8.0, 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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