We performed a comparison between Akamai 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."Akamai provides low-latency throughput."
"We can see how much traffic can be downloaded on the portal."
"The solution's technical support is very good...The installation phase of Akamai was easy."
"This solution can be used for web , video and media caching and streaming."
"Akamai has a very established network of PoPs globally."
"With 300 servers deployed worldwide, it's highly scalable and is the best web application firewall on the market."
"The solution's most valuable feature is that it has been quite helpful in our company, especially when it comes to applications needing updates frequently."
"If an attacker conducts an attack, we can check what query he is running and whether he wants to see our password or any other files."
"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."
"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."
"Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
"Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks."
"When we open tickets, we have a delay in response times."
"Akamai's configuration part is an area of concern where improvements are required to make the process easy."
"One area for improvement with Akamai could be pricing."
"Sometimes a little hard to navigate around the user console."
"Caching strategy is an area with certain shortcomings in the solution where improvements are required."
"Their support is very slow. If you file a support ticket, it takes a long time before it gets resolved."
"Akamai should improve its integrations."
"I'd like to see more Web 3.0 and IoT solutions."
"The product should provide improved bot detection and management."
"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."
"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."
"Support is not that great."
Akamai is ranked 3rd in CDN with 18 reviews while Fastly is ranked 7th in CDN with 6 reviews. Akamai is rated 9.0, while Fastly is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Akamai writes "An easy to setup product offering multiple useful functionalities under a single package". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fastly writes "An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support". Akamai is most compared with Cloudflare, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, Amazon CloudFront and AWS Global Accelerator, whereas Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, AWS WAF, Edgio Global CDN, Amazon CloudFront and Imperva DDoS. See our Akamai vs. Fastly report.
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