Name: Fastly Edge Cloud Platform
Price: 0.00075 USD
Rating: 8.1 (12 reviews)
Author: Fastly

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

AI Code Generation

Agile Development

Product Analytics

Version Control

Development

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

IP PBX

Knowledge Management

Policy Management

Enterprise

Accounting

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Employee Scheduling

HR Management

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Time Tracking

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Cloud Brokers

Cloud Storage

Code Review

Data Catalog

Data Deduplication

Data Privacy Management

Data Warehouse

Edge Computing

Embedded Database

Ethernet Switches

Firewall Security Management

Fraud Detection

IP Address Management (IPAM)

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Low-Code Development

Mainframe Monitoring

Migration

Mobile Identity

Network Monitoring

Network Performance Monitoring

Network Simulation

Rack Servers

Tape Storage

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Content Management

Customer Experience Management

Data Cleansing

Digital Experience Intelligence

Digital Rewards

Email Marketing

Marketing Automation

Mobile Analytics

Search Engine Marketing (SEM)

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Presales

Sales Incentive Compensation Management

Sales

GDPR Compliance

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)

Security

Animal Shelter

Apparel

Computer-Aided Design (CAD)

ID Card

Last Mile Delivery

Lease Management

Oil and Gas

Online Ordering

Vertical-Specific

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small

medium

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Google Cloud CDN

Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

Google

Tomcat is an open-source web server supported by Apache.

Apache Tomcat

Application Server

Application Servers

IDE support

Security management

Administration and management

Application server performance

Installation

Open-source standards compliance

Apache

Top Rated 2023

Cloudflare, from the company of the same name in San Francisco, provides DDoS and bot mitigation security for business domains, as well as a content delivery network (CDN) and web application firewall (WAF).

Free

Business

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Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection

DigitalOcean is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform from the company of the same name headquartered in New York. It is known for its support of managed Kubernetes clusters and “droplets” feature.

1GB-16GB

8GB-160GB

DigitalOcean

Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

Dynamic scaling

Elastic load balancing

Pre-configured templates

Monitoring tools

Pre-defined machine images

Operating system support

Security controls

Automation

CloudFront is the content delivery network (CDN) from Amazon Web Services.

First 10TB

Next 40TB

Next 100TB

Next 350TB

Next 524TB

Next 4PB

Over 5PB

Amazon CloudFront

Amazon AWS

Google Cloud AI

Machine Learning

Edgio (formerly Limelight Networks, rebranded to Edgio after the acquisition of Edgecast) offers their global edge network to bring data closer to every user, delivering content faster, safer and easier. Edgio Delivery boasts more than 7,000 global interconnections to last-mile networks to ensure customers are getting their content via the most optimized routes.

After Limelight Networks acquired Edgecast, a content delivery network (CDN) begun at Yahoo and acquired by Verizon in 2013 (becoming for a short time the Verizon Media Platform) and later by Limelight Networks in 2022, it's capabilities are available to augment Edgio's own CDN.

Edgio Delivery

Limelight CDN + Yahoo Edgecast / Verizon Media Platform

Edgio Delivery Limelight CDN + Yahoo Edgecast / Verizon Media Platform edgecast verizon media platform yahoo edgecast

Edgio (Limelight Networks)

Imperva CDN provides intelligent and caching controls, content and network optimization, application delivery rules, and high website availability, and is available as part of the Imperva FlexProtect. The Imperva CDN is based on resources acquired with Incapsula.

Imperva CDN

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Amazon's Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions. It can handle the varying load of your application traffic in a single Availability Zone or across multiple Availability Zones. Elastic Load Balancing offers three types of load balancers with the vendor states all feature the high availability, automatic scaling, and robust security necessary to make applications fault tolerant.

Application

Network

Gateway

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Elastic Load Balancing

NGINX

NGINX NGINX Waf NGINX Web Application Firewall

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.

Requests

Next 10TB

Fastly Edge Cloud Platform

Deliver@Edge Fastly Edge Cloud Platform deliver@edge

Fastly

A Content Delivery Network (or CDN) is a service operating across a widely distributed system of servers to bring web content to an end-user based on the end-user's geographic location. A server optimally situated to deliver the best performance and fastest load times is determined algorithmically, with the goal of noticeably improving the end-user's experience (e.g. reduced page load time). Alternately, cost may be prioritized over performance.

Likelihood to Recommend

Fastly’s powerful and programmable edge cloud platform helps the world’s top brands deliver the fastest online experiences possible, while improving site performance, enhancing security, and empowering innovation at global scale. With world-class support that achieves 95%+ average annual customer satisfaction ratings, Fastly’s beloved suite of edge compute, delivery, and security offerings has been recognized as a leader by industry analysts such as IDC, Forrester and Gartner. Compared to legacy providers, Fastly’s powerful and modern network architecture is the fastest on the planet, empowering developers to deliver secure websites and apps at global scale with rapid time-to-market and industry-leading cost savings.

Reviews

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TrustRadius

Hard to configure

Access controls

Extremely limited

Page load

Load times

Excellent documentation

Fine grained

Home

Salesforce Sales Cloud

Google Cloud DNS

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

We used Fastly both as the pre-configured caching backbone for all our customers as well as a highly-customized edge provider for customers who required more control than the pre-configured version gave them. The use cases could be anything from SEO optimization to enhanced security protection. We also implemented Fastly as a means of providing additional functionality, such as edge logging and image optimization, that could be scaled across multiple web properties with a single configuration.

Product Usage

Pros and Cons

Comprehensive API.
Feature-rich UI.
Excellent documentation.
Fine-grained custom VCL.

Things done well

WAF is hard to configure.
No comprehensive rate limiting without a pricey upgrade.
Account access controls are extremely limited.

Things done poorly

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.

Support.
Security - either the in-house waf or recent Signal Sciences acquisition.
Speed.
API-driven allows us to use Terraform or custom REST calls to quickly spin up new configurations.

Most Important Features 3.4.21

Adding a custom fastly implementation to our sales SKUs opened up 10s of millions of dollars in ARR in a single year.
Fastly enabled us to sell to nearly 100 customers a year that we otherwise would not have been able to service.
We did end up needing to spend nearly $500k/yr for custom TLS certificates (2000 domains).

Return on Investment

Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Salesforce.com, Google Cloud DNS

Other Software Used

Fastly Deliver@Edge 2021-12-09 14:31:45

Azure CDN

Firebase

Fastly is a highly performant CDN and edge computer service, with an impressive list of clients that use its services. Unlike most traditional CDNs, Fastly requires that all traffic be served through it via a CNAME change, similar to CloudFlare (as opposed to a more traditional CDN, like Cloudfront or MaxCDN). This gives Fastly the ability to quickly serve even very low TTL event content, like game scores, news, and stock prices.

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.

Setup can be difficult -- but only because the service is so robust and provides so many features.
Minimum spend is $50/month, even if you are not using the service enough to have spent the $50.

For the use case that it was designed for, Fastly is best-in-class, and used by high-profile companies like Buzzfeed, The New York Times, and Stripe. For websites that require a highly-performant CDN layer, Fastly is a great choice. Fastly is not the best choice for very small companies and very small deployments, and it does not have the ease of implementation into large cloud PaaS vendors like AWS or Azure.

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.

Fastly is a great choice for CDN vendor when performance and has the ability to quickly invalidate an asset from all POPs very quickly. It shines in use cases that require media delivery, like video. Fastly also provides a highly-optimized way to handle logical operations at the edge, meaning that, for example, quick authorization checks can be handled without having to work with the origin server.

Amazon CloudFront, Azure CDN and Firebase

Alternatives

Fastly 2019-03-16 13:29:04

Deployment Types	Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating Systems	Unspecified
Mobile Application	No

Fastly Edge Cloud Platform
Formerly Deliver@Edge

Overview

What is Fastly Edge Cloud Platform?

Quality Edge Delivery Service

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Super configurable CDN with unparalleled features and performance

Pricing

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$0

Next 10TB

$0.08

First 10TB

$0.12

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