Fastly migration services are truly a cut above the rest and set the industry standard for making migrating easy. Our team of technical experts is equipped to handle any migration scenario, even the most complex custom configurations from your current CDN vendor. Here’s a table to help you determine what Fastly products or features are equivalent to your products and features.
Delivery
Cloudflare | Description | Fastly |
Cloudflare dashboard | The web interface where you create services and configurations. | |
CDN | Cache stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster. | |
Live Stream | Deliver live video over common HTTP streaming formats, including Apple’s HLS and MPEG-DASH. And with built-in elasticity, it can scale to accommodate the largest audiences. | |
Purge cache | An HTTP Purge method that is sent to the CDN Service whenever an application changes or deletes data in its database. | |
Cache Key Rewrite | Fastly's CDN Service delivers dynamic HTTP-based file content. | |
Basic CDN | You can designate a Fastly point of presence (POP) to serve as a shield for your origin servers, thus enabling increased cache hit rates for your Fastly services and potentially protecting your origin servers from unexpected spikes in requests for content. | |
Origin Cache Control | Fastly's request collapsing feature groups those requests and fulfills them together when it receives the refreshed content from your origin. | |
Load Balancing | Define content-aware routing decisions while ensuring instant convergence and failover. | |
Argo Smart Routing | Fastly can automatically detect and, in real time, route around transient connection problems that occur when fetching content from your origin servers or when delivering content to end users from Fastly's Edge Cloud. | |
Images | Enhance image-heavy sites' page load speeds with optimized images, transformed at the edge. | |
Network Interconnect | Fastly allows you to connect on your terms, from your origin via the internet or directly with your cloud provider, private network, or internet exchange point. | |
Analytics | Granular origin to edge visibility | |
Analytics | Monitor domain level metrics | |
Logs | Real-time logging that can be connected to 30+ logging endpoints. |
Security
Cloudflare | Description | Fastly |
WAF | Web application firewall | |
Rate | Rate counters allow you to count requests by individual client and penalty boxes allow you to penalize clients for exceeding rate limits you set. | |
Layer 7 DDoS Protection | Visibility and mitigation of multi-layer DDoS attacks | |
SSL/TLS | Manage certificates and keys for TLS |
Compute
Cloudflare | Description | Fastly |
Workers | Serverless execution environment - | |
Wrangler CLI | An open-source command line tool for | |
Workers KV | Durable storage of key/value data that is readable | |
Durable Objects | Durable, globally consistent key-value stores for environment variables | |
Workers Secrets | Provide a state-of-art solution for encryption | |
Pub/Sub | A Pub/Sub real-time message broker at the edge |
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