We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and Fastly based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like the security features, especially against SQL injection."
"F5 Advanced WAF has very good stability and scalability. Its initial setup was straightforward."
"It also has antivirus and DDoS mitigation capabilities. We have enabled these features."
"F5 Advanced WAF helps our engineers to learn the complete configuration, including fundamental and advanced policies."
"Customers find the load balancer feature as the most valuable."
"I like all of the features, but the main one is the attack signatures."
"I like them because I like the security solution. They get extra marks compared to other solutions or competitors. There are more features than any other product I can think of. They're always monitoring, and the security features offer more than other, lesser products."
"The most valuable features of the F5 Advanced WAF are the enhanced ASM and the performance. Additionally, the usability and effectiveness are very good."
"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."
"Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks."
"The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
"One thing that can be improved, is to increase the quantity over predefine policy."
"I would like to see the API Protection improved."
"The accuracy of the automatic learning feature needs improvement."
"I would like for there to be a cloud-based solution, this would also help to improve scalability."
"The user interface (UI) seems a bit outdated. Making it more user-friendly would be beneficial."
"The BNS module needs improvement."
"The pricing could be more flexible."
"F5 Advanced WAF needs better integration within the application, like remote dashboards."
"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement."
"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."
"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."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 55 reviews while Fastly is ranked 17th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 6 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while Fastly is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fastly writes "An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and F5 Silverline Managed Services, whereas Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS WAF, Amazon CloudFront and Imperva DDoS. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. Fastly report.
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