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Akamai CDN vs. Amazon CloudFront

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Akamai CDN

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AAkamai Technologies, headquartered in Boston, offers Akamai Connected Cloud, a content delivery network (CDN) with a variety of services used to guarantee application, API, and media delivery.N/A

    Amazon CloudFront

    Score6.9 out of 10
    N/ACloudFront is the content delivery network (CDN) from Amazon Web Services.

    $0.02

    Pricing
    Akamai CDNAmazon CloudFront
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Over 5PB
    $0.02
    Next 524TB
    $0.03
    Next 4PB
    $0.03
    Next 350TB
    $0.04
    Next 100TB
    $0.06
    Next 40TB
    $0.08
    First 10TB
    $0.09
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Akamai CDNAmazon CloudFront
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Akamai CDNAmazon CloudFront
    Considered Both Products
    Akamai
    Chose Akamai CDN
    Akami CDN was far better than Amazon CDN, I don't see much security aspect on Amazon CloudFront Due to which we moved to Akami.
    Incentivized
    Chose Akamai CDN
    I don't have any direct experience with any of the other CDNs, so it's hard to say. Like any solution out there, each service will have its pros and cons. Some will fit your business needs more than others. Akamai is amongst the best and meets our business needs.
    Incentivized
    Chose Akamai CDN
    Akamai is a leader in CDN domain with adaptive media delivery and download delivery and it helps work by reducing the distance between your website and your target audience. It also provides 24X7 support services.
    Incentivized
    Chose Akamai CDN
    We've used -- and considered -- a whole number of CDN offerings. The good news is that almost all of the CDN products on the market are terrific, and will pay for themselves via increased customer satisfaction and lower monthly hosting bills. For some cases, we're still more …
    Incentivized
    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon CloudFront
    If you are using other AWS services, then no other CDN can compete with AWS CloudFront. Its integration with WAF, Route53, ACM allow it to provide a whole ecosystem for building websites and using a CDN. It gives developers access to inexpensive, pay-as-you-go pricing. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon CloudFront
    We ended up selecting CloudFront because we were already using an Amazon stack. To be honest, since we were already in the ecosystem there was little reason to deviate once we saw pricing was comparable.
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon CloudFront
    CloudFront is well-suited for a particular use case with its native tie-ins to other Amazon/AWS services, like S3. If choosing from a platform-specific CDN, we tend to go with whichever CDN is available for use on that platform (e.g. Google or Azure). In rare cases we might …
    Incentivized
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Akamai CDNAmazon CloudFront
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.3
    (16 ratings)
    9.0
    (17 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (4 ratings)