We performed a comparison between Akamai Kona Site Defender and Akamai Prolexic Routed based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NETSCOUT, Cloudflare, Imperva and others in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection."The features are powerful and better than F5."
"The solution can scale extremely well."
"The most valuable feature is the custom rules feature. This is because many of our customers require a lot of custom rules. Because it's a very customized project for our customers, I think they have the best of everything already."
"I like that the charges are all based on usage and labor costs. For the time that we spend onboarding almost 252020 FQDN, Akamai charges us only for the traffic usage, but it's only charging us for the labor costs for onboarding."
"The solution does not have hardware or maintenance requirements and is very easy to scale."
"It would be better if there weren't any issues with latency. We had latency issues, but I think they are all solved now."
"Support and the pricing need to improve."
"The pricing could be reduced a bit."
"They are already very flexible, but room for improvement is there. Reports generation could be better and should be improved."
"The solution needs additional product options for small and medium enterprises."
Akamai Kona Site Defender is ranked 6th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 4 reviews while Akamai Prolexic Routed is ranked 17th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 1 review. Akamai Kona Site Defender is rated 8.0, while Akamai Prolexic Routed is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Akamai Kona Site Defender writes "Great technical support, scales extremely well, and is very stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Akamai Prolexic Routed writes "Scaling is very easy but more options are needed for enterprise environments". Akamai Kona Site Defender is most compared with AWS WAF, Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Cloudflare and Imperva Web Application Firewall, whereas Akamai Prolexic Routed is most compared with Cloudflare, Arbor DDoS, Lumen DDoS Mitigation, Azure DDoS Protection and AWS Shield.
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