We performed a comparison between Fastly and Imperva DDoS 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."Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."
"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."
"Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks."
"Technical support provides good, quick responses."
"Integration with IBM AS/400 and Db2 is okay."
"On the site security, I can see which countries have incidents, whether it was a robot attack, a real human user, or non-human user."
"Gives us the ability to trace each connection, and to have logs to be able to differentiate between a positive and a false-positive intruder action."
"The setup of Imperva DDoS was easy."
"Imperva Incapsula has many valuable features. One, it protects the top 10 OWAS vulnerability, the open web application software platform, this is standard. Secondly, it protects against broken authentication. As well, it has remote execution of code."
"The most valuable features are DDoS protection."
"Technical support was very helpful."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"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."
"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."
"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement."
"It would be beneficial to include vulnerability management in the solution, similar to what they have for their on-premise solution."
"Some maintenance must be performed by our IT team."
"It's quite expensive."
"The log analytics interface within Incapsula isn't really good. For example, if you have to get all logs from there, it's a very cumbersome process."
"The solution needs to improve Integration with third parties for their on-prem deployment models. The integration is not that good yet."
"Incapsula services also provides load balancing services for their service IP address environment. So far, with monitoring their services, the IP address was only changed once."
"Certificate management could be improved."
"The salespeople tend to exaggerate its capabilities, which can cost you money if you don't verify the information."
Fastly is ranked 7th in CDN with 6 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 5th in CDN with 74 reviews. Fastly is rated 8.6, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Fastly writes "An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva DDoS writes "I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions". Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS WAF, Edgio Global CDN and F5 Advanced WAF, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and Fortinet FortiWeb. See our Fastly vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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