Akamai vs Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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Akamai
Based on 117 reviews.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Based on 1525 reviews.
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Overview
Akamai Technologies, Inc. is a content delivery network or CDN and cloud services provider headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. Akamai's content delivery network is one of the world's largest distributed computing platforms, responsible for serving between 15 and 30 percent of all web traffic. The company operates a network of servers around the world and rents capacity on these servers to customers who want their websites to work faster by distributing content from locations close to the user. Over the years their customers have included Apple, Facebook, Bing, Twitter and healthcare.gov. When a user navigates to the URL of an Akamai customer, their browser is redirected to one of Akamai's copies of this website, almost entirely invisible to the vast majority of its users.
Amazon Web Services, a collection of remote computing services, also called web services, make up a cloud-computing platform offered by Amazon.com. These services operate from 11 geographical regions across the world. The most central and well-known of these services arguably include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon S3. Amazon markets these products as a service to provide large computing-capacity more quickly and more cheaply than a client company building an actual physical server farm.
Sample Customers
Akamai
* **Amazon** * **Apple** * **AT&T** * **Bank of America** * **Capital One** * **Cisco** * **Coca-Cola** * **Delta Air Lines** * **Disney** * **Ebay** * **Facebook** * **Google** * **Home Depot** * **HP** * **IBM** * **Intel** * **JPMorgan Chase** * **LinkedIn** * **McDonald's** * **Microsoft** * **Netflix** * **Nike** * **Oracle** * **PayPal** * **Pinterest** * **Qualcomm** * **Rakuten** * **SAP** * **Spotify** * **Tesla** * **Toyota** * **Visa** * **Walmart** * **WeWork**
Prolexic
Fidor Bank
Akamai App and API Protector
Douglas Omaha Technology Commission, ZALORA, PrintPlanet
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation
Santander, Frontier Airlines, OpenLink, Intermountain Healthcare, Cellcom, BancoBASE
Akamai Enterprise Application Access
Bugcrowd, InPowered, Spirent Communications
Akamai mPulse
Nordstrom, Gatwick, DirecTV, MSN, SquareSpace, SAP, Lenovo, Hallmark, myspace, Intuit, Kentucky Derby, Toys "R" Us, Netflix, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Lowe's, Nike, REI, Apple, Sears, Verizon, Wendy's, Huawei
Akamai Ion
Eurail, Boston Scientific
Akamai Edge DNS
Otto Group
Akamai Identity Cloud
Best Buy, Audi, Fox, IBM, Fiat, Honda
Linode
Best Buy, Panasonic, Giphy, Marco Polo, World Health Organization, Font Squirrel
Amazon AWS
Pinterest, General Electric, Pfizer, Netflix, and Nasdaq.
SAP Hybris on AWS
Travis Perkins, GE Oil & Gas, Rent-A-Center (RAC)
SAP S4HANA on AWS
Brigade Group, DoHome, Royal FloraHolland
Amazon CloudFront
Unilever, Spotify, Pinterest, MLB Advanced Media, Foursquare, PBS, Airbnb, Netflix, WIX, Comcast, Automobili Lamborghini, Rovio, Discovery Communications
AWS Global Accelerator
Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
Amazon Route 53
Hess, Expedia, Kelloggs, Philips, HyperTrack
AWS WAF
eVitamins, 9Splay, Senao International
AWS Outposts
Philips, Morningstar
AWS X-Ray
COMCAST, ConnectWise, skyscanner, AirAsia, cookpad, cimpress, VTEX, zowdow
AWS Auto Scaling
Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing
Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
Amazon Cognito
Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
AWS GuardDuty
autodesk, mapbox, fico, webroot
AWS Shield
netflix, dow jones, mapbox, pearson, rovio, youview, moviestar planet, asurion, payplug, hour of code
AWS IAM Identity Center
Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
Popular Solutions
Top Industries
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
14%
Educational Organization
10%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
14%
Educational Organization
11%
Comms Service Provider
9%
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