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."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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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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