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Azure Load Balancer vs. Fastly Content Delivery

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAzure Load Balancer

by Microsoft

Fastly Content Delivery

by Fastly

Overall rating4.44.7
Review count3086
Ease of use9.09.2
Ease of setup9.68.9
Quality of support8.49.5
Meets requirements9.09.3
NPS53.57142990.361446
Small Business36.7%30.2%
Mid-Market33.3%47.7%
Enterprise30.0%22.1%
Total page views134607
Total LLM citations1261,112

Azure Load Balancer

Azure Load Balancer is a cloud-based service designed to distribute incoming network traffic across multiple virtual machines (VMs) or virtual machine scale sets (VMSS), ensuring high availability and scalability for applications. Operating at Layer 4 of the OSI model, it efficiently manages both inbound and outbound traffic, providing low latency and high throughput for TCP and UDP applications. Key Features and Functionality: - High Availability: Distributes traffic across VMs within and across availability zones, enhancing application resilience.

Pros

  • Features
  • Scalability
  • Ease of Use
  • User Interface
  • Flexibility
  • Integrations

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

Pros