Akamai vs. Fastly Edge Cloud Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Akamai
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Akamai Technologies, headquartered in Boston, offers a Akamai: a content delivery network (CDN).N/A
Fastly Edge Cloud Platform
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
Fastly, headquartered in San Francisco, offers the Fastly Edge Cloud Computing, Content Delivery Network (CDN) (formerly Fastly Deliver@Edge). Priced by bandwidth in gigabytes and number of file requests, Fastly supports image optimization, video and streaming, load balancing, and cloud security via web application firewall (WAF) and DDoS protection. Additionally, Fastly is available as a managed CDN.
$0
per 10,000 requests
Pricing
AkamaiFastly Edge Cloud Platform
Editions & Modules
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Requests
$0
per 10,000 requests
Next 10TB
$0.08
per GB/per reigon
First 10TB
$0.12
per GB/per reigon
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AkamaiFastly Edge Cloud Platform
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
AkamaiFastly Edge Cloud Platform
Considered Both Products
Akamai
Chose Akamai
Akamai is a leader in CDN domain with adaptive media delivery and download delivery and it helps work by reducing the distance between your website and your target audience. It also provides 24X7 support services.
Fastly Edge Cloud Platform

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Top Pros
Top Cons
Best Alternatives
AkamaiFastly Edge Cloud Platform
Small Businesses
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 9.0 out of 10
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 9.0 out of 10
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront
Score 8.5 out of 10
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront
Score 8.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
AkamaiFastly Edge Cloud Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
7.6
(16 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
8.5
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AkamaiFastly Edge Cloud Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
Akamai
Akamai is a well-established brand name with a great product. It meets and many time exceeds the needs for global content delivery and security management layer at the edge. Fine grain security tuning seems cumbersome as the definition of the app keeps changing. It also requires an investment of time for the setup which doesn't necessarily make sense for smaller scale scenarios. Some products offered by AWS, Azure or the Google Cloud can be more tightly integrated with cloud provider offerings thus easier to configure.
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Fastly
The service is really well-suited for pretty much any site that is primarily display-driven (that is, mostly GET requests). The network is able to handle massive volumes of traffic and their POPs have spread out pretty much anywhere that it's easy to get them (so basically everywhere but China and Russia). My team witnessed several large-scale attack attempts on some high-profile websites (attacks in the 10s of millions of requests per second) that were mitigated before ever coming back to the actual application; in one case we didn't realize the attack had happened until we looked at the logs the next day. Because it's a cache store option, the default configuration does not cache POST responses, and it can be difficult to set up things like authenticated paywalls as a result.
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Pros
Akamai
  • Content offloading - once rules are set up within Akamai you don't need to even think about how many images or large JavaScript or CSS files (for example) are being served from your own estate, Akamai takes care of it all via rules that are quick, easy and flexible.
  • Page caching - for pages that don't change very often Akamai allows you to set up rules, quickly and easily, to serve up your page content for you, which takes even more load away from your origin servers.
  • Quick rollback - the Akamai system allows easy testing of rules and changes via a staging system, and also offers a quick rollback option, which is perfect for the rare occasions when something has been set up incorrectly.
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Fastly
  • Very performant and fast -- major companies have drastically reduced page load times with Fastly's edge technology.
  • Support for many types of media, including video.
  • Image add-on makes serving and manipulating images very simple.
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Cons
Akamai
  • The interface in their control centre could be a bit more user-friendly with some of the settings in places that you wouldn't expect them to be. The search offsets this problem to an extent but it's still sometimes slower than you'd like to find what you are looking for.
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Fastly
  • WAF is hard to configure.
  • No comprehensive rate limiting without a pricey upgrade.
  • Account access controls are extremely limited.
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Support Rating
Akamai
Their support documents are excellent and provide a lot of useful information for all their services. The only reason I didn't give them a 10 is that the time it takes for them to respond to an issue could be slightly faster.
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Fastly
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Alternatives Considered
Akamai
We've used -- and considered -- a whole number of CDN offerings. The good news is that almost all of the CDN products on the market are terrific, and will pay for themselves via increased customer satisfaction and lower monthly hosting bills. For some cases, we're still more likely to suggest CloudFlare (which has a free tier) or an integrated offering from a cloud provider, like Cloudfront.
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Fastly
It’s the fastest and most configurable.
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Return on Investment
Akamai
  • Akamai RoI improved over a period of times since it comes with heavy costs, however global deliveries in over 100 counties and global web platforms usage helps improve RoI
  • With the complex UI challenges, ROI could be impacted negatively when you have to invest in operations and time.
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Fastly
  • Fastly dramatically reduces load times for clients all over the world thanks to their global system of POPs.
  • Fastly is a cost-effective choice when a highly-performant CDN is required and makes it simple to support data that is quickly invalidated.
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