We performed a comparison between Akamai and Verizon EdgeCast 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."It's a scalable and reliable solution."
"The worldwide reach of the Akamai CDN is one of the key values of this CDN and the agreements worldwide that they keep running."
"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."
"The solution is very sustainable and flexible."
"Akamai's scalability is good."
"The solution's technical support is very prompt and good."
"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."
"The most valuable feature in managing web traffic has been the ability to handle vertical scaling effectively."
"The Rules Engine V4 is the most valuable feature."
"The product is easy to use and easy to implement."
"It's super easy to use and integrate with."
"One area for improvement with Akamai could be pricing."
"Sometimes a little hard to navigate around the user console."
"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."
"I would like to see improvements in the security aspect. The web application firewall needs to be enhanced and offers more customization options."
"Caching strategy is an area with certain shortcomings in the solution where improvements are required."
"Akamai's configuration part is an area of concern where improvements are required to make the process easy."
"I'd like to see improvements in log files and data visualizations within the interface."
"The fact that it is an expensive product is its only shortcoming."
"The web interface of the Verizon Edgecast portal is very old. It's not user-friendly, slow, and it is missing some valuable features like the ability to make bulk changes."
"In the next release, I would like to see more global endpoints for their CDN and a lower price."
"We could not create more than 15 custom rules."
Akamai is ranked 3rd in CDN with 18 reviews while Verizon EdgeCast is ranked 12th in CDN with 3 reviews. Akamai is rated 9.0, while Verizon EdgeCast is rated 7.6. 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 Verizon EdgeCast writes "The product is easy to use and easy to implement, but we have to raise new feature requests frequently because the product is new". Akamai is most compared with Cloudflare, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, Amazon CloudFront and Windows Azure CDN, whereas Verizon EdgeCast is most compared with Edgio, Windows Azure CDN, Cloudflare, Azure Front Door and Amazon CloudFront. See our Akamai vs. Verizon EdgeCast report.
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