Fastly Reviews

Name: Fastly
Brand: Fastly
Rating: 4 (6 reviews)

4.3 out of 5

6 reviews
100% willing to recommend

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Fastly helps the world’s most popular digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Businesses trust Fastly’s edge cloud platform to accelerate the pace of technical innovation, mitigate evolving threats, and scale on demand.

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Fastly is the #7 ranked solution in top CDN solutions, #10 ranked solution in top Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions, and #17 ranked solution in top Web Application Firewalls. PeerSpot users give Fastly an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. Fastly is most commonly compared to Cloudflare: Fastly vs Cloudflare. Fastly is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 57% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 20% of all views.

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Featured reviews

Nick Wilsdon

CEO at Torque

Jun 29, 2023

I use the product mostly for its Compute@Edge capabilities. Fastly is a content delivery network with various functions inside CDN. It has a functionality around security. It also has a content delivery functionality, which is a more standard function within CDN. If you are accessing a website…

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Archana Heeralal

Security Engineer at Amazon

Jun 27, 2023

We use the solution for CDN, preventing Layer 7, Layer 3, and Layer 4 DDoS attacks, and for Layer 7 web application attacks Overall, it is a good product. If we make any changes in one version and it doesn't work or something goes wrong, we can revert to the old version. We will not lose our…

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Dale Ellwood

IT Infrastructure Architect at GoSee Travel

May 17, 2023

We use the solution to protect front-end delivery networks. It helps us with caching and firewall purposes The solution efficiently works for protecting the network and caching. Also, it has a convenient log management system. The solution's pricing could be better. The solution's technical…

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Fastly market share

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As of March 2024, the market share of Fastly in the CDN category stands at 3.3%, marking an increase of 80.0% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Last updated Feb 6, 2024

Valuable Features

"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."
"The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly."
"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."

Room for Improvement

"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."
"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement."
"The product should provide improved bot detection and management."

Pricing

"The pricing has been very competitive."
"Fastly is less expensive than one of its competitors."
"I've generally found Fastly to be very competitive in pricing, especially around Compute@Edge."

These insights are based on the in-depth reviews provided by peers to help you make a better buying decision.

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Top industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Retailer

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

University

Insurance Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Energy/Utilities Company

Hospitality Company

Non Profit

Healthcare Company

Media Company

Construction Company

Educational Organization

Wholesaler/Distributor

Legal Firm

Government

Logistics Company

Transportation Company

Performing Arts

Pharma/Biotech Company

Consumer Goods Company

Recreational Facilities/Services Company

Outsourcing Company

Aerospace/Defense Firm

Sports Company

Non Tech Company

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Twitter, Airbnb, Alaska Airlines, Pinterest, Vimeo, The Guardian, The New York Times, Ticketmaster, The Drupal Association, Opera, about.com, imgur, Etsy, Foursquare, GitHub, New Relic, shopify, Shazam, Firebase