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 most valuable feature in managing web traffic has been the ability to handle vertical scaling effectively."
"Akamai is leveraged by many top-level businesses, ensuring reliability and support in case of outages or issues."
"Akamai's scalability is good."
"The solution's technical support is very prompt and good."
"It's a scalable and reliable solution."
"This solution can be used for web , video and media caching and streaming."
"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."
"Akamai provides low-latency throughput."
"It is an expensive product with valuable features."
"The support team is knowledgeable."
"If you're using AWS entirely, it's smooth sailing."
"The solution has many features that are comprehensive."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the speed of delivery."
"It is stable."
"The image loading process is easy and cost-effective too."
"The most valuable feature is the number of servers they can put your content in while being reliable."
"When we open tickets, we have a delay in response times."
"The product's scalability can be improved since certain shortcomings regarding the security part of the solution currently exist."
"Caching strategy is an area with certain shortcomings in the solution where improvements are required."
"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."
"I would like to see improvements in the security aspect. The web application firewall needs to be enhanced and offers more customization options."
"Local connectivity would be great linked to our own telecom/Cablevision CDN."
"I'd like to see more Web 3.0 and IoT solutions."
"One area for improvement with Akamai could be pricing."
"Support needs to be enhanced."
"Improvements are needed as per customer requirements."
"There is room for improvement in customer service and support."
"They should have more Edge locations so that CloudFront can be used much more. If they can make it a little bit cheaper and better than other networks, we will be able to use it more."
"The user interface could be improved."
"A lot of caching features must be added to the solution."
"The solution can benefit from expanding its data center and server locations to multiple places for smoother content delivery with even lower latency. The latency we experience is sufficient for our needs, and we are doing well. However, if they expand their locations in the future, it could be a positive factor. Its competitors have multiple data and server locations."
"They could be expanding the number of locations available. It will help users easily access content."
Akamai is ranked 2nd in CDN with 18 reviews while Amazon CloudFront is ranked 4th in CDN with 22 reviews. Akamai is rated 9.0, while Amazon CloudFront is rated 8.2. 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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