We performed a comparison between Akamai and Imperva DDoS 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."
"Akamai has a very established network of PoPs globally."
"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 technical support is very good...The installation phase of Akamai was easy."
"The worldwide reach of the Akamai CDN is one of the key values of this CDN and the agreements worldwide that they keep running."
"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's scalability is good."
"The most valuable feature in managing web traffic has been the ability to handle vertical scaling effectively."
"Gives us the ability to trace each connection, and to have logs to be able to differentiate between a positive and a false-positive intruder action."
"Imperva DDoS is fairly stable, and its availability is quite high."
"On the site security, I can see which countries have incidents, whether it was a robot attack, a real human user, or non-human user."
"On the activity log, I can see the exact details, the visit, and the threat."
"It blocks all types of attacks."
"Integration with IBM AS/400 and Db2 is okay."
"Setup was straightforward, very simple. I only entered the domain and Incapsula returned the DNS data that I needed to change for the protection to be configured."
"Technical support was very helpful."
"I'd like to see more Web 3.0 and IoT solutions."
"Local connectivity would be great linked to our own telecom/Cablevision CDN."
"It would be better if we could be notified about specific attacks."
"I'd like to see improvements in log files and data visualizations within the interface."
"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."
"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."
"The solution could offer more integrations."
"Sometimes a little hard to navigate around the user console."
"Its price could be improved. It is quite expensive. It will be good if we could export the configuration. Currently, to control the configuration, we need to go to each website, which is not very convenient."
"Certificate management could be improved."
"The cost could be lower; our end clients need to have a high budget to purchase this solution."
"We had an issue when securing the web applications for DDoS protection."
"There’s nothing that’s missing in terms of features."
"It needs to be improved every time there are new attacks."
"Imperva now offers add-ons to add functionality, but I would like to see these included in the product, even if it would cost more."
"Incapsula services also provides load balancing services for their service IP address environment. So far, with monitoring their services, the IP address was only changed once."
Akamai is ranked 3rd in CDN with 18 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 5th in CDN with 74 reviews. Akamai is rated 9.0, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. 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 Imperva DDoS writes "I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions". Akamai is most compared with Cloudflare, Azure Front Door, Amazon CloudFront, Fastly and AWS Global Accelerator, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro, AWS WAF and Imperva Web Application Firewall. See our Akamai vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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