Azure CDN vs. IPFS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure CDN
Score 7.1 out of 10
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Microsoft offers a content delivery network, Azure CDN.N/A
IPFS
Score 8.8 out of 10
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IPFS, an open source project backed by Protocol Labs, powers the creation of diversely resilient networks that enable persistent availability — with or without internet backbone connectivity. According to supports, this means better connectivity for the developing world, during natural disasters, or when on flaky coffee shop wi-fi.N/A
Pricing
Azure CDNIPFS
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure CDNIPFS
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Azure CDNIPFS
User Ratings
Azure CDNIPFS
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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Support Rating
8.0
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User Testimonials
Azure CDNIPFS
Likelihood to Recommend
Azure CDN has at hand an infinity of applications and tools to implement in your system and have better control of your data in a clean and secure platform on the web, we recommend this program since the percentage of solutions provided by this program is very high and find a way to make each user's job easier.
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Pros
  • New websites can be boosted up quickly
  • Easily scalable according to our performance requirements
  • Easy integration with other Azure services
  • You only pay for what you need
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Cons
  • For the longest time they didn't have a robust SDK. They have one now, but it could be better.
  • The different flavors of Azure CDN (Akamai, Verizon, etc) have different costs, but not well differentiated features. Might be confusing to new users.
  • I'm not overly familiar with it, but AWS does have a programmability in their CDN offering (Lambda @ Edge) and Azure doesn't seem to have an equivalent (Azure Functions is region-specific).
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Usability
I give it 9/10 rating because it solved my problem by Caching my website content on global servers to load faster.
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Support Rating
Great support from the team whenever we're stuck. Very proactive in resolving issues and also making changes as per the requirements of the organization.
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Alternatives Considered
We did not evaluate any other CDN's before we selected Azure. We heavily use Azure for our development and infrastructure efforts so choosing the Azure CDN was easy. The only thing we compared it to was standing up a Windows Server VM and pointing a CDN URL to it allowing it to serve as a file server, which was much more cumbersome.
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Return on Investment
  • Azure CDN reduced origin instance load by removing the need to constantly serve large numbers of static files, meaning applications can be deployed with smaller/fewer instances.
  • Azure CDN reduces apparent load times to customers by serving cached files out of POPs in the local region of those clients, instead of requiring those clients to make multiple, lengthy requests through to the origin servers.
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