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    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AF5 Distributed Cloud WAF leverages F5's Advanced WAF technology, delivering WAF-as-a-Service and combining signature- and behavior-based protection for web applications. It acts as an intermediate proxy to inspect application requests and responses to block and mitigate a broad spectrum of risks stemming from the OW ASP Top 10, persistent and coordinated threat campaigns, bots, and layer 7 DoS.N/A

    Fastly Edge Cloud Platform

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AFastly, 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.

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    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Fastly Edge Cloud Platform
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    Next 10TB
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    Offerings
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    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Fastly Edge Cloud Platform
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Fastly Edge Cloud Platform
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    F5
    Chose F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    When comparing F5 Distributed Cloud WAF, Akamai, Cloudflare, and Fastly, Fastly generally stands out for its raw speed and focus on developer-friendly features, while Cloudflare is often considered the best balance of speed, security, and ease of use, making it a popular choice …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    95%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    95%
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    Best Alternatives
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Fastly Edge Cloud Platform
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    Amazon CloudFront
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Google Cloud CDN
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Akamai App & API Protector
    Score8 out of 10
    Azure CDN
    Score7.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Fastly Edge Cloud Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (71 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
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    User Testimonials
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Fastly Edge Cloud Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    F5
    It helps our website to manage well during high traffic seasons and Holidays. This plaform manages the website overall performance and also protect it against DDoS attacks during these High demand period. It also protects transactions done on our website for the booking of services and products buying by our customers and keep their data safe.
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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
    F5
    • Layer seven attacks are becoming far more common. Traditionally it was always layered three, layer four, where you get an additional firewall, but with the application layer attacks become more frequent, more popular, et cetera. So having the web application firewall protecting us, and then with the recent Log4j, that's the most recent use case when it gave us that instant level of protection whilst we remediated the Log4j that we had that and the F5 Distributed Cloud WAF was protecting us.
    • I have a great relationship with the account manager, my account manager, and I think he drives the best price possible, um, for me, and I'm happy with that price.
    • F5 Distributed Cloud WAF is always innovating and evolving.
    • We run a very competitive proof value where we run numerous competitors against each other, and then we evaluate from that and then make the selection, and F5 Distributed Cloud WAF was the winner.
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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
    F5
    • Better integration between different F5 solutions
    • Fail over between devices feels unstable if there are thousands of objects attached to the traffic-group. Needs to be more simpler.
    • We have seen issues with malicious user detection where we have used open protocols due to legacy applications, and have been caught with legitimate traffic being blocked.
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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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    Likelihood to Renew
    F5
    We gave it an 8 because it protects our web apps well and is reliable. The WAF is flexible and meets most of our needs. It could improve in user interface and make integrations easier, but overall, it’s a solid and effective security tool for us.
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    Fastly
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    Usability
    F5
    I believe is a solution that was designed from the start to be simple and easy to use. Coming from Imperva, it simply eased the burden and complexity of managing and securing our apps on different environments (cloud and on-prem). It easy to scale and very quick to deploy (as a cloud waf should be), provide us with DevOps integrations, visibility and automatic insights from multiple events that guarantee peace of mind for us analysts and opp managers.
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    Fastly
    Fastly Edge Cloud Platform is a powerful tool with robust capabilities, but it requires deep technical knowledge to integrate effectively into existing applications. While its performance and features are excellent, the lack of a user-friendly interface and the need for advanced configuration can make it challenging for teams without experienced developers.
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    Reliability and Availability
    F5
    Seems no issue
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    Fastly
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    Performance
    F5
    Unnoticed slowness
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    Fastly
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    Support Rating
    F5
    I never contacted support for this product.
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    Fastly
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    Online Training
    F5
    Online training saves me lots of time
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    Fastly
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    Implementation Rating
    F5
    Just make sure you origin servers have F5 IPs allowed.
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    Fastly
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    Alternatives Considered
    F5
    It provides fewer false positives and a more granular approach to eliminating them, allowing us to focus on threats. Also, with the need to secure both on-premise and cloud-based web applications, we can only use Azure on the cloud part, but we still need to cover on-premise apps with WAF, so we would need to double the time to deploy and manage. Also, its flexibility of deployment scenarios offers us a faster time to deploy WAF without adjusting the app delivery process to WAF's existence.
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    Fastly
    It’s the fastest and most configurable.
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    Scalability
    F5
    Dont see any issue so far
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    Fastly
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    Return on Investment
    F5
    • The biggest gain for us was speed. Before F5 Distributed Cloud WAF, onboarding a new app to our WAF stack meant manual rule tuning, traffic sampling and regression testing. Right now, we spin up a service, tag it with the right policy and its ready (production ready) within hours
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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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