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."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'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."
"The solution's technical support is very prompt and good."
"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."
"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."
"Akamai has a very established network of PoPs globally."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the speed of delivery."
"The distribution aspect of CloudFront and its ability to reduce latency are most beneficial."
"It is stable."
"The AWS environment was very helpful in terms of integration."
"The support team is knowledgeable."
"The solution has many features that are comprehensive."
"Amazon CloudFront is a stable solution."
"Feature-wise, I like the solution's signed URL because it provides security for me."
"The fact that it is an expensive product is its only shortcoming."
"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."
"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."
"Akamai's configuration part is an area of concern where improvements are required to make the process easy."
"Their support is very slow. If you file a support ticket, it takes a long time before it gets resolved."
"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."
"The solution could offer more integrations."
"The support must be improved."
"The product could support any network load balancer. At present, we can use only Amazon’s load balancer application."
"The lack of seamless integration made the setup process more complex and required additional research to manage all the services properly."
"The product should be more intuitive."
"Amazon CloudFront is harder to understand compared to Azure."
"Sometimes, the server goes down automatically."
"With a mixed stack, things become a problem. With GCP and Azure, the DNS setup gets tricky when using CloudFront."
"Amazon CloudFront's setup is a bit difficult, and we would love it if they made it easier."
Akamai is ranked 3rd in CDN with 18 reviews while Amazon CloudFront is ranked 4th in CDN with 21 reviews. Akamai is rated 9.0, while Amazon CloudFront is rated 8.0. 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 Amazon CloudFront writes "Top-notch in terms of customer service and offers pay-as-you-go model with a free tier". Akamai is most compared with Cloudflare, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, Fastly and AWS Global Accelerator, 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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