We performed a comparison between Akamai and Verizon EdgeCast based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, Microsoft, Akamai and others in CDN."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 most valuable feature in managing web traffic has been the ability to handle vertical scaling effectively."
"The solution is very sustainable and flexible."
"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."
"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 most valuable feature of Akamai is its ease of use and simple integration. Additionally, the solution has new aspects added to it regularly."
"Akamai provides low-latency throughput."
"With 300 servers deployed worldwide, it's highly scalable and is the best web application firewall on the market."
"It's super easy to use and integrate with."
"The Rules Engine V4 is the most valuable feature."
"The product is easy to use and easy to implement."
"One area for improvement with Akamai could be pricing."
"The solution could offer more integrations."
"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."
"I would like to see improvements in the security aspect. The web application firewall needs to be enhanced and offers more customization options."
"Akamai should improve its integrations."
"Local connectivity would be great linked to our own telecom/Cablevision CDN."
"Caching strategy is an area with certain shortcomings in the solution where improvements are required."
"We could not create more than 15 custom rules."
"In the next release, I would like to see more global endpoints for their CDN and a lower price."
"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."
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 Global CDN, Windows Azure CDN, Cloudflare, Azure Front Door and Amazon CloudFront.
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