We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF 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."The most valuable feature of F5 Advanced WAF is its ability to have a pool of resources that can distribute your traffic, and that is a plus for me. My company tried to look into a competitor, Imperva, but it was lacking that capability, so F5 Advanced WAF outperforms Imperva."
"It is easy to obtain dashboard compliance because security policy views are included."
"The anti-bot protection is the solution's most valuable feature. Safe-guard or credential staffing are also useful features."
"It also has antivirus and DDoS mitigation capabilities. We have enabled these features."
"Very easy to implement and works well."
"With F5 Advanced WAF, it was protection for online publications and for our customers that caused us to choose the platform."
"Customers find the load balancer feature as the most valuable."
"This solution inspects your traffic and based on that, automatically create distinct qualities for you, so you can add this to the policy already created. That's what I like most."
"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."
"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."
"Compatibility with multiple cloud environments needs improvement. Both stability and scalability need to be improved."
"The delay times on firmware patches and software updates could be better and improved."
"I think the deployment templates can be better."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve on its funding for WAF features. There is a need to be more advanced WAF features."
"I would not expect traffic details to pass through the web application firewall across the length of the whole application. I think that there is a web application where it can let the application function without traffic going in into the WAF."
"There should be more ability to rate limit certain scenarios. The majority of the time, it is either on or off. For certain types of use cases, there should be the ability to rate limit, not just enable or disable."
"We get false positives sometimes."
"One area for improvement in the product is its SSO integration, which posed challenges and required significant effort to resolve."
"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement."
"Support is not that great."
"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."
"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."
F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 55 reviews while Fastly is ranked 17th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 6 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while Fastly is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fastly writes "An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and F5 Silverline Managed Services, whereas Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS WAF, Amazon CloudFront and Imperva DDoS. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. Fastly report.
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