Akamai Site Shield vs. Fastly Content Delivery
A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.
| Metric | Akamai Site Shield | Fastly Content Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 4.6 | 4.7 |
| Review count | 21 | 86 |
| Ease of use | 9.0 | 9.2 |
| Ease of setup | 9.3 | 8.9 |
| Quality of support | 9.1 | 9.5 |
| Meets requirements | 9.0 | 9.3 |
| NPS | 75 | 90.361446 |
| Small Business | 14.3% | 30.2% |
| Mid-Market | 28.6% | 47.7% |
| Enterprise | 57.1% | 22.1% |
| Total page views | 111 | 607 |
| Total LLM citations | 328 | 1,112 |
Akamai Site Shield
Akamai Site Shield is a security solution designed to protect web applications by concealing origin servers from direct internet access. By routing all incoming traffic through Akamai's globally distributed network, Site Shield ensures that only legitimate requests reach the origin, effectively mitigating threats such as Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks and other malicious activities. Key Features and Functionality: - Origin Cloaking: Removes web applications from publicly accessible IP address space, preventing attackers from targeting the origin directly.
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Fastly Content Delivery
Fastly is an extension of your infrastructure - speeding up and optimizing the delivery of your web apps, mobile traffic, APIs, and AI workloads, allowing you to scale globally, improve performance, and save on costs. Fastly gives you the control to serve more dynamic, personalized content and to accelerate your content delivery. Deliver your website, apps, video, downloads and more from a single, secure, high performing, global network