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Fastly DDoS Protection Alternatives

4.9(62 Ratings)
DDoS Mitigation Solutions

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1. Cloudflare DDoS Protection

By Cloudflare

4.5
(287 Ratings)
Cloudflare DDoS Protection is a great addition to our security posture. It's easy to manage and protects our organization from downtime from potential DDoS attacks.Read all insights and reviews for Cloudflare DDoS Protection

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2. Radware DefensePro

By Radware

4.6
(91 Ratings)
We have been using Radware DefensePro in our AWS cloud deployment for the past few years as part of our service provider environment. Overall, our experienceexperience has been positive. TheThe solution has been proven effective in handlinghandling high-volume DDoS attacks and has remained stable even during large-scale incidents, which is critical for maintaining customer availability. What has worked well for us is the strong volumetric mitigation capability and consistent performance under load. The reporting and visibility features help us analyze attack patterns and maintain operational transparency. The support team has also been reliable whenever assistance was needed. On the improvement side, enhanced cloud-native automation and deeper integration with AWS-native services would help streamline large-scale operational workflows further.Read all insights and reviews for Radware DefensePro

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3. Imperva DDoS Protection

By Thales Group (Imperva)

4.6
(62 Ratings)
I had a great overall experience with Imperva DDoS Protection, it is dependable, quick and successfully maintains services online even in the face of frequent attacks. It maintains the stability of our apps even in the face of high attack traffic and offers dependable, constant defense.Read all insights and reviews for Imperva DDoS Protection

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4. Radware Cloud DDoS Protection Service

By Radware

4.7
(59 Ratings)
In our banking environment, we mainly rely on on-premises protection due to compliance and security policies. Currently we are using our on-premises solution Radware DefensePro with Cyber Controller, however, during very large volumetric attacks, cloud scrubbing becomes important. The hybrid architecture between DefensePro and the cloud service works perfectly for this.Read all insights and reviews for Radware Cloud DDoS Protection Service

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5. Akamai Edge DNS

By Akamai

4.4
(53 Ratings)
Nice product with all requires features. It helped to resolve issues we had for ddos.Read all insights and reviews for Akamai Edge DNS

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6. Azure DDoS Protection

By Microsoft

4.4
(51 Ratings)
Installation and configuration was an easy task and the customer support is responsive and knowledgeable as well. I like that we were able to customize it for auto action, helping protect applications from all types of DDoS attacks and the threat reports are very clear and useful.Read all insights and reviews for Azure DDoS Protection

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7. Google Cloud Armor

By Google

4.4
(35 Ratings)
Provides better DDoS protection on the google cloud applications, comes with WAF rules. Easy to integrate with google cloud load balancer, and compute engine.Read all insights and reviews for Google Cloud Armor

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8. AWS WAF

By Amazon Web Services (AWS)

4.6
(33 Ratings)
We use AWS WAF before our Production course website, we are all in the AWS, and therefore AWS WAF becomes the great value for us because of its Price, and simple connection with our other existing infrastructure.Read all insights and reviews for AWS WAF

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Top Alternatives to Fastly DDoS Protection

  • Cloudflare DDoS Protection
  • Radware DefensePro
  • Imperva DDoS Protection
  • Radware Cloud DDoS Protection Service
  • Akamai Edge DNS
  • Azure DDoS Protection
  • Google Cloud Armor
  • AWS WAF
  • F5 Distributed Cloud DDoS Mitigation
  • A10 Defend DDoS Protection

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