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 solution is very sustainable and flexible."
"Akamai has a very established network of PoPs globally."
"Akamai is leveraged by many top-level businesses, ensuring reliability and support in case of outages or issues."
"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 technical support is very prompt and good."
"The solution's technical support is very good...The installation phase of Akamai was easy."
"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."
"With 300 servers deployed worldwide, it's highly scalable and is the best web application firewall on the market."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the speed of delivery."
"We can personalize a lot of things inside CDN."
"The AWS environment was very helpful in terms of integration."
"Amazon CloudFront is a stable solution."
"The speed and usability of the solution are valuable."
"The solution has many features that are comprehensive."
"The product is very well interconnected with other Amazon services."
"Feature-wise, I like the solution's signed URL because it provides security for me."
"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'd like to see more Web 3.0 and IoT solutions."
"Akamai's configuration part is an area of concern where improvements are required to make the process easy."
"I'd like to see improvements in log files and data visualizations within the interface."
"The solution could offer more integrations."
"The product's scalability can be improved since certain shortcomings regarding the security part of the solution currently exist."
"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."
"Their support is very slow. If you file a support ticket, it takes a long time before it gets resolved."
"The product could support any network load balancer. At present, we can use only Amazon’s load balancer application."
"During the setup phase, there were some hiccups in terms of security, the user role, and the permissions."
"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."
"With a mixed stack, things become a problem. With GCP and Azure, the DNS setup gets tricky when using CloudFront."
"A lot of caching features must be added to the solution."
"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 product should be more intuitive."
"The user interface could be improved."
Akamai is ranked 3rd in CDN with 13 reviews while Amazon CloudFront is ranked 4th in CDN with 13 reviews. Akamai is rated 9.0, while Amazon CloudFront is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Akamai writes "An out-of-the-box solution for live video streaming". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon CloudFront writes "A CDN solution that has rich documentation and resources ". Akamai is most compared with Cloudflare, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, AWS Global Accelerator and Fastly, 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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