Fastly Reviews

Name: Fastly
Brand: Fastly
Rating: 4.3 (7 reviews)

4.3 out of 5

7 reviews
100% willing to recommend

258 followers

What is Fastly?

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.

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Fastly is the #6 ranked solution in top CDN solutions, #11 ranked solution in top Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions, and #18 ranked solution in top Web Application Firewalls. PeerSpot users give Fastly an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. Fastly is most commonly compared to Cloudflare: Fastly vs Cloudflare. Fastly is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 56% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 17% of all views.

Helped 816,406 peers since 2012

Featured reviews

Nick Wilsdon

CEO at Torque

The product should provide improved bot detection and management. The product should also provide support for code management. Everybody working in CDN is currently looking for ways to better manage code deployment with various authorization levels and synchronization with our lower environments. Matching up what's happening in CDN with what's happening on the origin regarding testing would always be useful.

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Archana Heeralal

Security Engineer at Amazon

Overall, it is a good product. If we make any changes in one version and it doesn't work or something goes wrong, we can revert to the old version. We will not lose our configuration. For every change, we will have a separate version. We can switch back to the older version if we add anything new that doesn’t work. The solution provides good WAF features. Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks. The product is easy to use and easy to implement. It is quite a mature product.

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Dale Ellwood

IT Infrastructure Architect at GoSee Travel

We use the solution to protect front-end delivery networks. It helps us with caching and firewall purposes The solution efficiently works for protecting the network and caching. Also, it has a convenient log management system. The solution's pricing could be better. The solution's technical…

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Fastly mindshare

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As of November 2024, the mindshare of Fastly in the CDN category stands at 3.5%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

CDN

Key learnings from peers

Last updated Sep 4, 2024

Valuable Features

"The product's initial setup phase is straightforward."
"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."
"The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly."

Room for Improvement

"What I don't like about Fastly is that they charge a heavy price."
"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."

Pricing

"You need to pay a premium price for the tool."
"The pricing has been very competitive."
"Fastly is less expensive than one of its competitors."

These insights are based on the in-depth reviews provided by peers to help you make a better buying decision.

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Top industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

University

Hospitality Company

Healthcare Company

Media Company

Non Profit

Insurance Company

Construction Company

Government

Real Estate/Law Firm

Energy/Utilities Company

Legal Firm

Consumer Goods Company

Outsourcing Company

Educational Organization

Wholesaler/Distributor

Performing Arts

Pharma/Biotech Company

Recreational Facilities/Services Company

Aerospace/Defense Firm

Transportation Company

Leisure / Travel Company

Marketing Services Firm

Sports Company

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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