We performed a comparison between Fastly and Imperva DDoS 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."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."
"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."
"Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute."
"It is a stable solution."
"We use Imperva DDoS to stop DDoS attacks and reduce the amount of unwanted queries against web services or web scraping."
"Simplifies putting everything in code."
"We have peace of mind that nobody will use malware on us or try to hack our website."
"There is no need to have an appliance in house for the services because it is on the cloud."
"The complete solution is valuable for everything it delivers and the protection it offers."
"The dashboard is good and user-friendly."
"Scalability is pretty easy on the base platform. You just add another, and you're ready to go."
"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement."
"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."
"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."
"The solution should integrate with something that looks at continuous security management."
"Certificate management could be improved."
"There’s nothing that’s missing in terms of features."
"It would be better if we were able to manage and apply changes to multiple websites/web applications, and search WAF logs for multiple websites, via the Incapsula dashboard."
"Some maintenance must be performed by our IT team."
"The rules surrounding the making of web applications could be improved."
"We had an issue when securing the web applications for DDoS protection."
"We would like them to hire people in Sweden because it's quite hard when people are sitting in the UK or Belgium because some of the customers really want them to be local."
Fastly is ranked 10th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 6 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 7th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection 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, Amazon CloudFront and Imperva Web Application Firewall, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and Imperva Web Application Firewall. See our Fastly vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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