🆚 Azure Front Door vs. Fastly

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Fastly is much more popular than Azure Front Door.
🌎 Fastly is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 Azure Front Door is more popular in Brunei Darussalam, Papua New Guinea, and San Marino.

Azure Front Door

Fastly

Type

Content delivery network

About

Azure Front Door is is a cloud content delivery network service that offers Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities.

Fastly is a global content delivery network provider that delivers cached and dynamic web content via edge servers deployed around the world.

It operates a network of over 120 points of presence with more than 460 Tbps of connected global capacity, and offers built-in DDoS and web application firewall protection, origin shielding to reduce backend load, instant purging of cached content, and fine-grained API control over HTTP headers and caching rules.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

azure.microsoft.com

fastly.com #94

Pricing

Free version ❌

Standard$35/month

Premium$330/month

Outbound data transfers (first 10TB)$0.083/GB

10–50 TB$0.066/GB

50–150 TB$0.057/GB

Free version ✔️

Usage$50/month + usage price

Basic$1,500/month

Starter$6,000/month

UltimateOn request

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Fastly CDN is 9 times more popular than Azure Front Door.

Total websites

Market share

CDN

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Fastly is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Azure Front Door is more popular in Brunei Darussalam, Papua New Guinea, and San Marino.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Germany

Canada

Japan

France

Brazil

Netherlands

Spain

Awards

🥉 Third most popular in Denmark in the Load Balancers category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Malta in the CDN category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Malta in the Load Balancers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Load Balancers category.
⭐ 6th most popular in the Netherlands in the Load Balancers category.

🥈 Second most popular in Malta in the CDN category.
🥈 Second most popular in Nepal in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in Canada in the CDN category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Fastly is more popular among sites focused on business, education and reference, and online shopping, while Azure Front Door is more commonly used on health sites.

Business

Education/Reference

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Software/Hardware

Internet Services

Blogs/Wiki

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Entertainment

Sports