AWS Global Accelerator vs Verizon EdgeCast comparison

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We performed a comparison between AWS Global Accelerator and Verizon EdgeCast based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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  • "When I modeled it out, we are spending somewhere between $600 to $800 a month with Verizon EdgeCast."
  • "Be careful about the options because to have all the features can be very expensive."
  • "The product is cheaper compared to other solutions."
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    Top Answer:Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether Amazon’s Web Service Global Accelerator or Amazon CloudFront global content delivery network was the better fit for us. We decided to go with… more »
    Top Answer:Below, you'll find more information on how CloudFront compares against Global Accelerator. Still, if you need to deliver static and dynamic content to users worldwide, CloudFront may be a good choice… more »
    Top Answer:The product is easy to use and easy to implement.
    Top Answer:There were a few limitations in the product. While evaluating it, we found a couple of gaps. Rate Limiting features were not completely developed. The new feature requests used to take a little… more »
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    12th
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    EdgeCast
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    Overview

    AWS Global Accelerator is a service that improves the availability and performance of your applications with local or global users. It provides static IP addresses that act as a fixed entry point to your application endpoints in a single or multiple AWS Regions, such as your Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers or Amazon EC2 instances.

    AWS Global Accelerator uses the AWS global network to optimize the path from your users to your applications, improving the performance of your TCP and UDP traffic. AWS Global Accelerator continually monitors the health of your application endpoints and redirects traffic to healthy endpoints in less than 30 seconds.

    EdgeCast is the world's fastest and most reliable content delivery network. EdgeCast helps companies dramatically accelerate delivery of static and dynamic web content, significantly improving the end user experience regardless of location.
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    Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company22%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company24%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Government7%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise66%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise59%
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    AWS Global Accelerator is ranked 8th in CDN while Verizon EdgeCast is ranked 12th in CDN with 3 reviews. AWS Global Accelerator is rated 0.0, while Verizon EdgeCast is rated 7.6. 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". AWS Global Accelerator is most compared with Azure Front Door, Cloudflare, Akamai, Amazon CloudFront and Imperva DDoS, whereas Verizon EdgeCast is most compared with Akamai, Edgio Global CDN, Windows Azure CDN, Cloudflare and Azure Front Door.

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