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We performed a comparison between Fastly and IBM Cloud Video based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks.""Compute@Edge features are valuable to me.""Its initial setup process is straightforward.""Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute.""The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly.""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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"I like the user interface. There aren't too many buttons that the audience will have to fiddle with."

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Cons
"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.""The product should provide improved bot detection and management.""Support is not that great."

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"They should improve the registration gateway. Currently, you can't do a pre-event registration that's straightforward. You have to do an API to integrate. It would be a lot easier if they had that."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "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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    Ranking
    7th
    out of 34 in CDN
    Views
    1,362
    Comparisons
    1,153
    Reviews
    5
    Average Words per Review
    591
    Rating
    8.6
    29th
    out of 34 in CDN
    Views
    87
    Comparisons
    50
    Reviews
    0
    Average Words per Review
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    Overview
    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.
    With cognitive and AI infused technologies, IBM Cloud Video empowers customers to enhance live and on-demand video opportunities, and maximize viewer engagement.
    Sample Customers
    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
    Airbnb, N3 Results, University of Notre Dame
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Retailer8%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business71%
    Large Enterprise29%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise57%
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    April 2024
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    Fastly is ranked 7th in CDN with 6 reviews while IBM Cloud Video is ranked 29th in CDN. Fastly is rated 8.6, while IBM Cloud Video is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fastly writes "An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Cloud Video writes "Great user interface and easy to implement". Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS WAF, Edgio Global CDN and Amazon CloudFront, whereas IBM Cloud Video is most compared with .

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