We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) and Fastly based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is easily deployable and has great functionality."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that the blocking of IP's."
"The product’s most valuable features are LTM and WAF."
"It blocks various attacks and mitigates disasters from occurring."
"We use three main features. The first one is access control. The second feature we use is called IP intelligence. Finally, we have a DDoS safety feature."
"This product excells in every aspect from installation and the interface to providing superior network security."
"I find the signature base is very helpful to see traffic"
"It excels in preventing downtime and maintaining application performance, which is crucial for our clients' security and operational continuity."
"The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
"Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks."
"Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute."
"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."
"It doesn't compare to next generation firewalls"
"There should be simplified and better integration with BIG-IQ."
"The solution’s initial setup is not easy."
"For configuring the firewall, every single vendor on the planet has pretty much the same logic when it comes to firewalls, and F5 has a completely different approach and completely different behavior."
"The solution doesn't really meet our requirements for an edge firewall."
"The solution's UI could be improved."
"We needed to protect the database but the solution didn't offer a certain feature to do so."
"F5 BIG-IP AFM can improve the reporting interface in relation to advanced troubleshooting depending on CLI. They should have enhanced troubleshooting with the use of GUI."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement."
"Support is not that great."
"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 product should provide improved bot detection and management."
"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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F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is ranked 7th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 21 reviews while Fastly is ranked 10th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 6 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4, while Fastly is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) writes "Straightforward setup with very good granularity and performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fastly writes "An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support". F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with Arbor DDoS, AWS Shield and Radware DefensePro, whereas Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS WAF, Edgio Global CDN and Amazon CloudFront. See our F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) vs. Fastly report.
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