We performed a comparison between Akamai and Imperva Bot Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, Microsoft, Akamai and others in CDN."The worldwide reach of the Akamai CDN is one of the key values of this CDN and the agreements worldwide that they keep running."
"It's a scalable and reliable solution."
"Akamai has a very established network of PoPs globally."
"Akamai's scalability is good."
"The solution is very sustainable and flexible."
"The solution's technical support is very good...The installation phase of Akamai was easy."
"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."
"I am impressed with the product's automatic bot mechanism. It also gives us the control to create our own custom bot rules."
"The stability of the product is good since I haven't had any problems with the solution."
"The fact that it is an expensive product is its only shortcoming."
"Akamai should improve its integrations."
"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."
"One area for improvement with Akamai could be pricing."
"Caching strategy is an area with certain shortcomings in the solution where improvements are required."
"Akamai's configuration part is an area of concern where improvements are required to make the process easy."
"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."
"The tool needs to include artificial intelligence and machine learning. It also needs to improve profiling."
"Sometimes, it takes a bit of time for the technical staff of the solution to get back to our company with a resolution for our problems."
Akamai is ranked 3rd in CDN with 18 reviews while Imperva Bot Management is ranked 4th in Bot Management with 2 reviews. Akamai is rated 9.0, while Imperva Bot Management 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 Imperva Bot Management writes "A product that offers advanced bot detection capabilities and reporting features". Akamai is most compared with Cloudflare, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, Amazon CloudFront and Lumen Content Delivery Network, whereas Imperva Bot Management is most compared with Cloudflare, Cequence Security, AWS WAF, Akamai Bot Manager and Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection.
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