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."It is stable."
"The support team is knowledgeable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the speed of delivery."
"The image loading process is easy and cost-effective too."
"The tool is highly available and reliable. It helps to access server applications easily. Integrating Amazon CloudFront with other AWS services was very easy, I would rate it eight out of ten."
"The most valuable feature is the number of servers they can put your content in while being reliable."
"The AWS environment was very helpful in terms of integration."
"If you're using AWS entirely, it's smooth sailing."
"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."
"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."
"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
"A lot of caching features must be added to the solution."
"Amazon CloudFront can improve by accurately determining the latency of a non-defined URL that the solution encounters."
"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."
"During the setup phase, there were some hiccups in terms of security, the user role, and the permissions."
"I have utilized certain characteristics and invested effort in reading the documentation, which proved to be challenging."
"The product could support any network load balancer. At present, we can use only Amazon’s load balancer application."
"Sometimes, the server goes down automatically."
"The user interface could be improved."
"The product should provide improved bot detection and management."
"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 solution's pricing could be better."
"Support is not that great."
"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."
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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