We performed a comparison between Akamai App and API Protector and Prolexic based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, NETSCOUT, Akamai and others in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection."Adaptive stream delivery and WAF protection are valuable."
"The solution can scale extremely well."
"The most valuable feature is the DDoS protection, which is the main reason we got it."
"It enables us to move faster with new products because we have this layer of protection set up in our infrastructure."
"The solution easily identifies, delays, or allows business traffic."
"Everything will be handled by Akamai's system before it reaches our infrastructure."
"The product has a good UI."
"The product is user-friendly."
"The solution does not have hardware or maintenance requirements and is very easy to scale."
"The product should provide a secure NTP."
"If we talk about application layer attacks, including WAF, CloudFlare is leading. Akamai can focus a bit more on the application layer attacks and how to protect them."
"Akamai App and API Protector is very new to me, so I do not have any insights on improvement areas for the product. However, when we ask for some help, it can take some time. We understand that the job is done by professionals, but if that time can be reduced, it would be great."
"Support and the pricing need to improve."
"The interface is a little bit clunky and can be improved."
"One area where Akamai can improve is the captcha part. Cloudflare provides a captcha if there are a certain number of threats. For example, I can assign that if there are 10 requests within a second from a single IP, it should send a captcha to the user. The user should fill in the captcha, and only after that, the user should be able to access our website. This captcha feature should be built into Bot Manager. I love this captcha feature of Cloudflare."
"There are some issues with pushing configurations across a network. It still takes about 20 minutes and that means to retract it's another 20 minutes."
"It would be better if there weren't any issues with latency. We had latency issues, but I think they are all solved now."
"The solution needs additional product options for small and medium enterprises."
Akamai App and API Protector is ranked 3rd in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 27 reviews while Prolexic is ranked 14th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 4 reviews. Akamai App and API Protector is rated 8.4, while Prolexic is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Akamai App and API Protector writes "Easy to learn and gives us a report of traffic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Prolexic writes "Scaling is very easy but more options are needed for enterprise environments". Akamai App and API Protector is most compared with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, AWS Shield and Arbor DDoS, whereas Prolexic is most compared with Cloudflare DDoS, Cloudflare, Arbor DDoS, AWS Shield and Lumen DDoS Mitigation.
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