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Akamai Segmentation [Private Offer Only] vs Upbound Crossplane comparison

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Akamai Segmentation [Privat...
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
515th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
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Upbound Crossplane
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Brice-Abrioux - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Cyber Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Micro-segmentation has delivered deep flow visibility and simplified firewall rule management
Although mapping is currently fine, Akamai Segmentation [Private Offer Only] can improve by providing a more useful and visually appealing graphical user interface for mapping. While we can automate rules through API calls, this is not entirely possible with the same API. Navigation between different sources and generations of APIs can make it time-consuming to achieve cartography. While labeling is beneficial, there is still room for user experience improvements. The improvements are not solely due to the Akamai project; they also stem from issues related to CMDB and the information systems of our company, where sometimes the information is inconsistent, causing Akamai to be unable to automate labeling if that information is not consistently provided.
Diego Paradeda - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Philips
Automated infrastructure deployment has reduced our backend release time from days to hours
I found an issue with features that was difficult for me when we needed to retrieve some tags or IDs of a resource that we deployed using Upbound Crossplane, for example, the RDS. We encountered a problem where we needed to use the ID of the RDS in another document that we have, making it difficult to return this information using Upbound Crossplane deployment. I believe Upbound Crossplane could be improved by possibly having a feature that can return tags, IDs, or resources that were deployed inside AWS, such as needing to return the ID of the VPC that we create when using Upbound Crossplane. I think the current state of Upbound Crossplane is already good enough.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Akamai Segmentation [Private Offer Only] has positively impacted our organization by giving us a better understanding of our flows, saving time implementing segregation and fixing production issues because we have a complete overview that allows us to determine whether the flow is functioning or if issues are due to flow problems."
"Akamai is globally available with globally distributed edge locations and presence across the globe, which ultimately benefits our customers."
"Upbound Crossplane has positively impacted our organization by reducing the pipeline time, saving time, and decreasing cost spending."
"Upbound Crossplane impacts my organization positively because, from our perspective, we need to rely on fewer resources."
"When I provisioned PostgreSQL and S3 buckets through Crossplane, I noticed improvements in deployment speed, reliability, and team collaboration."
"The time required to complete an environment setup was reduced from about one or two weeks to forty to fifty minutes."
"We went from having a 28-member troubleshooting team down to four to five members of the platform engineering team."
"This CD-type integration has facilitated my operations by unifying the way of working so that I can use the same guardrails for both deployments, which makes the way I deploy much simpler."
"Before choosing Upbound Crossplane, I evaluated various options, but I only found Upbound Crossplane to be the best choice."
"The best features Upbound Crossplane offers are infrastructure as Kubernetes APIs and self-service infrastructure, where developers can provision resources without cloud credentials, and its strong multi-cloud support that makes it useful in managing AWS, Azure, and GCP from a single control plane with valuable GitOps integration."
 

Cons

"It is quite expensive, to be honest, but it is really useful, as we see positive results."
"I would rate their customer service as four out of ten."
"Regarding Upbound Crossplane, I see room for enhancement in synchronizing the state file of Crossplane with Terraform, as 90% of organizations have generally implemented Terraform and have their own specific, environment-specific Terraform state files."
"This was the only thing that we took as a disadvantage at the time of implementing, since we did not have any way to see what the Upbound Crossplane composition or what the Upbound Crossplane resource will do to the actual infrastructure."
"Upbound Crossplane can be improved if they can add more AI agentic workflows."
"In terms of how Upbound Crossplane could improve, the generation of providers that are not already covered via Terraform is acceptable, but it could be more user-friendly for people who may not have knowledge of how those custom providers are structured."
"One area where Upbound Crossplane can be improved is with API rate limiting."
"Regarding Upbound Crossplane's capabilities, I feel the governance and security is something which is lacking."
"Upbound Crossplane was not stable in my experience."
"I found an issue with features that was difficult for me when we needed to retrieve some tags or IDs of a resource that we deployed using Upbound Crossplane, for example, the RDS."
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Akamai Segmentation [Private Offer Only]?
I have a separate account team who manages the cost and handles product procurement, licensing, and license renewal.
What needs improvement with Akamai Segmentation [Private Offer Only]?
Akamai could pass more headers directly to the application layer, such as user details or other user attributes, which would enable more granular personalization. These configurations require colla...
What is your primary use case for Akamai Segmentation [Private Offer Only]?
I have used Akamai Segmentation [Private Offer Only] for CDN purposes, specifically for Content Delivery Network and static content caching, delivering static assets and content globally near the e...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Upbound Crossplane?
I find the pricing, setup cost, and licensing of Upbound Crossplane very suitable for research and development.
What needs improvement with Upbound Crossplane?
One thing I have noticed about improving Upbound Crossplane is that, in Terraform, we can do a validation stage where people can say Terraform plan and see what changes it will do. It would be bett...
What is your primary use case for Upbound Crossplane?
Our main use case for Upbound Crossplane is that we are using Kubernetes as our main platform, and we have multiple clients who will be using this Kubernetes platform for deploying their container ...
 

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