top | item 41782126 (no title) jkarneges | 1 year ago > Does Fastly support WebSockets yet?It does! Can be served at the edge or passed through to origin. discuss order hn newest KeychainPirate|1 year ago According to the docs WebSockets are still incompatible with WAF and Origin Shield...https://docs.fastly.com/products/websocketsIf I'm not using Origin Shield, and I can't use WAF, why would I bother with Fastly when AWS Cloudfront is a fraction of the cost (And has WebSockets): https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Develope...I just don't understand what Fastly has been doing for the past few years, it seems like they're just selling bandwidth these days. jkarneges|1 year ago I'm not sure there'd be much benefit to using shielding with WebSockets, since the traffic wouldn't be cached/collapsed. You can still shield HTTP traffic on the same domain being used for WebSockets.WAF could be nice though.
KeychainPirate|1 year ago According to the docs WebSockets are still incompatible with WAF and Origin Shield...https://docs.fastly.com/products/websocketsIf I'm not using Origin Shield, and I can't use WAF, why would I bother with Fastly when AWS Cloudfront is a fraction of the cost (And has WebSockets): https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Develope...I just don't understand what Fastly has been doing for the past few years, it seems like they're just selling bandwidth these days. jkarneges|1 year ago I'm not sure there'd be much benefit to using shielding with WebSockets, since the traffic wouldn't be cached/collapsed. You can still shield HTTP traffic on the same domain being used for WebSockets.WAF could be nice though.
jkarneges|1 year ago I'm not sure there'd be much benefit to using shielding with WebSockets, since the traffic wouldn't be cached/collapsed. You can still shield HTTP traffic on the same domain being used for WebSockets.WAF could be nice though.
KeychainPirate|1 year ago
https://docs.fastly.com/products/websockets
If I'm not using Origin Shield, and I can't use WAF, why would I bother with Fastly when AWS Cloudfront is a fraction of the cost (And has WebSockets): https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Develope...
I just don't understand what Fastly has been doing for the past few years, it seems like they're just selling bandwidth these days.
jkarneges|1 year ago
WAF could be nice though.