Quality Edge Delivery Service
December 09, 2021
Quality Edge Delivery Service

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Fastly Deliver@Edge
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.
Pros
- Comprehensive API.
- Feature-rich UI.
- Excellent documentation.
- Fine-grained custom VCL.
Cons
- WAF is hard to configure.
- No comprehensive rate limiting without a pricey upgrade.
- Account access controls are extremely limited.
- 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.
- 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).
Do you think Fastly Edge Cloud Platform delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Fastly Edge Cloud Platform's feature set?
Yes
Did Fastly Edge Cloud Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Fastly Edge Cloud Platform go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Fastly Edge Cloud Platform again?
Yes
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