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."The product has valuable features for load balancing, monitoring tools, and HPXpress services."
"It's flexible and powerful, and the users can input their own rules to the system."
"F5 Advanced WAF helps our engineers to learn the complete configuration, including fundamental and advanced policies."
"Very easy to implement and works well."
"One of the most valuable features is the Local Traffic Manager."
"I like the security features, especially against SQL injection."
"It is also quite intuitive and user-friendly. They have several webinars that are actually like labs. You can use these webinars to learn about how to use all features of the product."
"The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are SSL uploading, signature, and anomaly detection. It is overall a high-quality solution."
"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."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
"Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute."
"Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks."
"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."
"I would like to see additional controls."
"While F5 Advanced WAF does limit the number of partners in certain regions to ensure successful business transactions, they could also benefit from expanding their partnerships and making it easier for more people to learn about and become experts in F5 Advanced WAF. By doing so, they could increase the reach and exposure of their solution, similar to how Cisco has become widely recognized in the security industry."
"We usually use a third-party tool for logging and reporting. It would be nice if we could do that right on this solution. They have one, but it's not very stable. Logging and reporting effectively would be a big enhancement."
"One area for improvement in the product is its SSO integration, which posed challenges and required significant effort to resolve."
"Most customers encounter stability issues with the product's Big-IP logs."
"You have to buy another module with an extra license, to have the authentication feature."
"I would not expect traffic details to pass through the web application firewall across the length of the whole application. I think that there is a web application where it can let the application function without traffic going in into the WAF."
"The interface is old-looking, it's not modern, which is why it's not always comfortable to use."
"The product should provide improved bot detection and management."
"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."
"Support is not that great."
"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 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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