Fastly Edge Cloud Platform Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8 out of 10

Score

8 out of 10

Reviews

4 Reviews

Essential for Optimizing Adobe Commerce On-Premise

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

October 21, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We adopted Fastly Edge Cloud Platform to enhance the performance and scalability of our Adobe Commerce on-premise setup. Our key objectives were improving content delivery through a robust CDN, implementing full-page caching for better load management, and ensuring strong security with TLS Encryption. Fastly Edge Cloud Platform has been a critical solution in achieving these goals.

Pros

Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Full Page Caching
TLS Encryption

Cons

CDN ehnanced features, like image manipulation
Full Page Caching is a powerful tool, but it’s best suited for experienced developers due to the lack of a user-friendly graphical interface

Likelihood to Recommend

Fastly Edge Cloud Platform is ideal for deploying Full Page Caching as a service without the need to build and configure a dedicated infrastructure. This is particularly beneficial for applications that require efficient server-side caching to handle high volumes of traffic. Additionally, Fastly Edge Cloud Platform excels as a highly functional CDN, offering reliable and fast content delivery across global regions.

Verified User

Project Manager in Information Technology (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

Quality Edge Delivery Service

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 9, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Verified User

Engineer in Professional Services (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

Fastly Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 19, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Verified User

Director in Engineering (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Super configurable CDN with unparalleled features and performance

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 6, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Fastly is a fantastic CDN / proxy layer for any web application. It’s built on Varnish, which offers a way to customize the caching and delivery of the web content to the end user with maximum flexibility, but without incurring a performance penalty. This is due to Varnish Configuration Language (VCL) being a compiled language.

Pros

You can put your site behind Fastly and then selectively cache only some of the endpoints. You can modify the responses returned by stripping cookies or other personalization headers.
You can deliver images, and based on the user agent being Chrome, decide to serve, for example, a WEBP image format instead of PNG or JPG.

Cons

Not sure

Likelihood to Recommend

Fastly is well suited to be the CDN or the caching layer in your app

Konstantin Gredeskoul

CTO in Engineering at Homebase (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

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