Fastly vs Windows Azure CDN comparison

Fastly and Microsoft are both solutions in the CDN category. Fastly is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.5, while Microsoft is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.4. Fastly holds a 3.5% mindshare in CDN, compared to Microsoft’s 2.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Fastly users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

Fastly

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100% willing to recommend

Windows Azure CDN

Read 12 Windows Azure CDN reviews

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909 Comparison Views

92% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Fastly and Windows Azure CDN 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.

To learn more, read our detailed Fastly vs. Windows Azure CDN Report (Updated: October 2024).

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Fastly vs. Windows Azure CDN

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Categories and Ranking

Fastly

Ranking in CDN

6th

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Web Application Firewall (WAF) (18th), Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection (11th)

Windows Azure CDN

Ranking in CDN

5th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the CDN category, the mindshare of Fastly is 3.5%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Windows Azure CDN is 2.7%, up from 2.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

CDN

Featured Reviews

Nick Wilsdon

CEO at Torque

An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support

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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Nikola Svabic

Support lead at P3 Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH

Improves security and has geolocation feature

Windows Azure CDN's deployment is very easy. However, if you are setting everything up at a company level, you need to adapt to many things, so it would take considerable time to make everything functional again. Similarly, transferring from on-premise to the cloud will take some time. It depends on the case, but you cannot set it up in just a few days.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"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."

"Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute."

"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."

"Its initial setup process is straightforward."

"The product's initial setup phase is straightforward."

"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that one can access Windows Azure CDN from anywhere."

"The geolocation feature is very important because many colleagues travel worldwide and need to access information from anywhere. The product has improved security."

"The UI is very intuitive."

"We use the product for faster content delivery with low latency."

"I enjoy engaging in discussions with colleagues possessing unique expertise. I leverage the three platforms—Azure, Google, and AWS extensively. This allows me to offer diverse solutions to customers, commonly referred to as a multi-cloud approach."

"I like that CDN offers a routing feature."

"One of the tool's best features is its ability to handle edge cases. For instance, we encountered a situation where we needed to remove certain files from public access. The solution offered a purge feature that allowed us to remove these files. This feature ensured that the files were deleted from all edge servers. Subsequently, we were able to upload new versions of the files."

"The most valuable feature of Windows Azure CDN is its effectiveness."

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Cons

"Support is not that great."

"The product should provide improved bot detection and management."

"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement."

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

"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."

"Windows Azure CDN should lower its prices."

"The high price of Windows Azure CDN is an area of concern where improvements can be made."

"I aim to enhance the reporting."

"They should include configuration for cache rules."

"Azure is continuously improving its CDN but the documentation should be up-to-date."

"The solution’s pricing could be improved."

"There were a few bugs that were very disappointing. So, that is a part of the reason why we started using Fastly."

"The response time of the support team must be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Fastly is less expensive than one of its competitors."

"The pricing has been very competitive."

"You need to pay a premium price for the tool."

"I've generally found Fastly to be very competitive in pricing, especially around Compute@Edge."

"It is an expensive solution."

"The solution is cheaper than other products in the market."

"In my opinion, Fastly is priced competitively."

"The solution's price depends on how much traffic you have. So, it was okay for us. Payments are to be made on a monthly basis since one has to pay for what they used."

"The pricing is extremely high, almost 9 out of 10."

"I rate the price of Windows Azure CDN a six on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is high."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a five out of ten."

"The pricing of the solution depends on usage and varies based on the company's needs. If you want additional features like advanced logging, it will be pricier. However, it could be cheaper if you don't need those features. It all depends on the resources and requirements."

"The tool's pricing is cheap."

"The solution's price is above the medium range."

"It comes at a relatively affordable cost."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

36%

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Fastly?

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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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fastly?

You need to pay a premium price for the tool.

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What needs improvement with Fastly?

What I don't like about Fastly is that they charge a heavy price. The pricing is different per region. If you have a customer who is international and has deployments in different regions, it is ve...

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What do you like most about Windows Azure CDN?

One of the tool's best features is its ability to handle edge cases. For instance, we encountered a situation where we needed to remove certain files from public access. The solution offered a purg...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Windows Azure CDN?

The pricing of the solution depends on usage and varies based on the company's needs. If you want additional features like advanced logging, it will be pricier. However, it could be cheaper if you ...

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What needs improvement with Windows Azure CDN?

Windows Azure CDN should lower its prices.

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Fastly

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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.

Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) caches static web content at strategically placed locations to provide maximum throughput for delivering content to users. The CDN offers developers a global solution for delivering high-bandwidth content by caching the content at physical nodes across the world.

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

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