We performed a comparison between Azure Web Application Firewall and Fastly based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has been a stable product in my experience."
"The initial setup is easy and straightforward...Azure Web Application Firewall is a scalable product."
"The most valuable feature is that it allows us to publish our applications behind the firewall."
"We have found the most valuable features to be the web application, minimal skills required for management, control through policies, and automation."
"Azure WAF is extremely stable."
"It's a good option if you want a solution that's ready to go and easy for your team to learn. It's cloud-based, so you don't need to buy or maintain any hardware infrastructure."
"The solution has good dashboards."
"It's quite a stable product and works well with Microsoft products."
"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
"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."
"Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute."
"There is a need to be able to configure the solution more."
"The support for proxy forwarding could improve."
"Azure WAF should not be deployed in the middle of the traffic."
"From a reporting perspective, they could do more there."
"I would say that Azure's customer service is not that good...I am not very happy with the support offered."
"The documentation needs to be improved."
"Deployment should be simplified so that a non-techie can handle it."
"The management can be improved."
"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 solution's pricing could be better."
"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."
"The product should provide improved bot detection and management."
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Azure Web Application Firewall is ranked 12th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 9 reviews while Fastly is ranked 17th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 6 reviews. Azure Web Application Firewall is rated 8.4, while Fastly is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Web Application Firewall writes "It's a good option if you want a solution that's ready to go and easy for your team to learn". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fastly writes "An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support". Azure Web Application Firewall is most compared with AWS WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Azure Firewall, Azure Front Door and Indusface AppTrana, whereas Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS WAF, Amazon CloudFront and Radware Bot Manager. See our Azure Web Application Firewall vs. Fastly report.
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