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."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."
"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."
"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 a scalable and reliable solution."
"The solution is very sustainable and flexible."
"The solution's technical support is very good...The installation phase of Akamai was easy."
"The product is easy to use and easy to implement."
"The Rules Engine V4 is the most valuable feature."
"It's super easy to use and integrate with."
"The product's scalability can be improved since certain shortcomings regarding the security part of the solution currently exist."
"It would be better if we could be notified about specific attacks."
"Akamai should improve its integrations."
"Sometimes a little hard to navigate around the user console."
"I'd like to see improvements in log files and data visualizations within the interface."
"Caching strategy is an area with certain shortcomings in the solution where improvements are required."
"The fact that it is an expensive product is its only shortcoming."
"Akamai's configuration part is an area of concern where improvements are required to make the process easy."
"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."
"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 Global CDN, Windows Azure CDN, Cloudflare, Azure Front Door and Amazon CloudFront. See our Akamai vs. Verizon EdgeCast report.
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