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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.
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Pros
"We can personalize a lot of things inside CDN.""The AWS environment was very helpful in terms of integration.""Feature-wise, I like the solution's signed URL because it provides security for me.""The support team is knowledgeable.""If you're using AWS entirely, it's smooth sailing.""The most valuable feature of the solution is the speed of delivery.""The beneficial feature for the entire AWS community is the presence of edge location servers. These servers are strategically located in multiple locations, allowing efficient content delivery from the nearest server.""Amazon CloudFront is a stable solution."

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"Its initial setup process is straightforward.""Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute.""Compute@Edge features are valuable to me.""The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly.""Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks.""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."

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Cons
"I have utilized certain characteristics and invested effort in reading the documentation, which proved to be challenging.""The user interface could be improved.""With a mixed stack, things become a problem. With GCP and Azure, the DNS setup gets tricky when using CloudFront.""Amazon CloudFront can improve by accurately determining the latency of a non-defined URL that the solution encounters.""The product could support any network load balancer. At present, we can use only Amazon’s load balancer application.""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.""The product should be more intuitive.""They should have more Edge locations so that CloudFront can be used much more. If they can make it a little bit cheaper and better than other networks, we will be able to use it more."

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"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement.""The solution's pricing could be better.""The product should provide improved bot detection and management.""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.""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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Its price is really on the high side. It should be cheaper in general."
  • "Amazon's pricing varies depending on the data transfer."
  • "I rate Amazon CloudFront's pricing a five out of ten."
  • "The product could improve its price."
  • "Amazon CloudFront is an expensive solution."
  • "The solution’s price is reasonable."
  • "Amazon CloudFront costs less than third-party services."
  • "For CloudFront, I'm quite satisfied with the pricing. Initially, it doesn't require many resources for this specific solution."
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  • "In my opinion, Fastly is priced competitively."
  • "It is an expensive solution."
  • "The solution is cheaper than other products in the market."
  • "I've generally found Fastly to be very competitive in pricing, especially around Compute@Edge."
  • "Fastly is less expensive than one of its competitors."
  • "The pricing has been very competitive."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether Amazon’s Web Service Global Accelerator or Amazon CloudFront global content delivery network was the better fit for us. We decided to go with… more »
    Top Answer:For CloudFront, I'm quite satisfied with the pricing. Initially, it doesn't require many resources for this specific solution. Additionally, the pay-as-you-go model with a generous free tier makes it… more »
    Top Answer: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.
    Top Answer: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… more »
    Ranking
    4th
    out of 34 in CDN
    Views
    6,452
    Comparisons
    5,605
    Reviews
    12
    Average Words per Review
    386
    Rating
    7.8
    7th
    out of 34 in CDN
    Views
    1,400
    Comparisons
    1,164
    Reviews
    5
    Average Words per Review
    591
    Rating
    8.6
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    Overview

    Amazon CloudFront is a global content delivery network (CDN) service that accelerates delivery of your websites, APIs, video content or other web assets. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services products to give developers and businesses an easy way to accelerate content to end users with no minimum usage commitments. Amazon CloudFront can be used to deliver your entire website, including dynamic, static, streaming, and interactive content using a global network of edge locations. Requests for your content are automatically routed to the nearest edge location, so content is delivered with the best possible performance. Amazon CloudFront is optimized to work with other Amazon Web Services, like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon Route 53. Amazon CloudFront also works seamlessly with any non-AWS origin server, which stores the original, definitive versions of your files. Like other Amazon Web Services products, there are no long-term contracts or minimum monthly usage commitments for using Amazon CloudFront – you pay only for as much or as little content as you actually deliver through the content delivery service.

    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.
    Sample Customers
    Unilever, Spotify, Pinterest, MLB Advanced Media, Foursquare, PBS, Airbnb, Netflix, WIX, Comcast, Automobili Lamborghini, Rovio, Discovery Communications
    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
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm40%
    Integrator10%
    Retailer10%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization19%
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Retailer9%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business35%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise45%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise27%
    Large Enterprise54%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business71%
    Large Enterprise29%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise57%
    Buyer's Guide
    Amazon CloudFront vs. Fastly
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon CloudFront vs. Fastly and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Amazon CloudFront is ranked 4th in CDN with 14 reviews while Fastly is ranked 7th in CDN with 6 reviews. Amazon CloudFront is rated 7.8, 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 easy-to-use and flexible product that protects from volumetric threats". 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, AWS WAF, Akamai, Edgio Global CDN and Imperva DDoS. See our Amazon CloudFront vs. Fastly report.

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