We performed a comparison between Akamai and Amazon CloudFront based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two CDN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is very sustainable and flexible."
"The most valuable feature of Akamai is its ease of use and simple integration. Additionally, the solution has new aspects added to it regularly."
"The solution's most valuable feature is that it has been quite helpful in our company, especially when it comes to applications needing updates frequently."
"With 300 servers deployed worldwide, it's highly scalable and is the best web application firewall on the market."
"Akamai has a very established network of PoPs globally."
"The solution's technical support is very prompt and good."
"If an attacker conducts an attack, we can check what query he is running and whether he wants to see our password or any other files."
"As of now, the best thing about Akamai is WAF, and though CDN is a good feature, it comes in second place when compared to WAF. I am very impressed with the WAF offered by Akamai."
"It has built-in DDoS protection, which protects against DDoS attacks."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the availability of the websites."
"The product provides reduced latency and quicker site refreshes."
"If you're using AWS entirely, it's smooth sailing."
"The product is very well interconnected with other Amazon services."
"The beneficial feature for the entire AWS community is the presence of edge location servers. These servers are strategically located in multiple locations, allowing efficient content delivery from the nearest server."
"The speed and usability of the solution are valuable."
"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to deliver content to users nearby."
"The solution could offer more integrations."
"It would be better if we could be notified about specific attacks."
"The product's scalability can be improved since certain shortcomings regarding the security part of the solution currently exist."
"Sometimes a little hard to navigate around the user console."
"One area for improvement with Akamai could be pricing."
"While it's great for solutions with high scalability, like global e-commerce, it's not really built for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). It has too many options and can be complex for SMBs to utilize."
"Akamai could improve by providing its own cloud services. We have to use third-party cloud services at this time, such as Amazon AWS. The offering becomes a lot easier for an SMB if everything was in one single platform to be used for the services."
"Caching strategy is an area with certain shortcomings in the solution where improvements are required."
"They could be expanding the number of locations available. It will help users easily access content."
"Amazon CloudFront can improve by accurately determining the latency of a non-defined URL that the solution encounters."
"I have utilized certain characteristics and invested effort in reading the documentation, which proved to be challenging."
"A lot of caching features must be added to the solution."
"The user interface could be improved."
"The product could support any network load balancer. At present, we can use only Amazon’s load balancer application."
"The UI could be more user-friendly."
"The tool must provide regional control."
Akamai is ranked 3rd in CDN with 18 reviews while Amazon CloudFront is ranked 4th in CDN with 21 reviews. Akamai is rated 9.0, while Amazon CloudFront is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Akamai writes "An easy to setup product offering multiple useful functionalities under a single package". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon CloudFront writes "Top-notch in terms of customer service and offers pay-as-you-go model with a free tier". Akamai is most compared with Cloudflare, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, Fastly and AWS Global Accelerator, whereas Amazon CloudFront is most compared with Azure Front Door, Cloudflare, Windows Azure CDN, Fastly and AWS Global Accelerator. See our Akamai vs. Amazon CloudFront report.
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