Akamai API Gateway vs. Amazon CloudFront

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Akamai API Gateway
Score 9.4 out of 10
N/A
Akamai offers their API Gateway, touting easy control and access to enterprise applications via their services.N/A
Amazon CloudFront
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
CloudFront is the content delivery network (CDN) from Amazon Web Services.
$0.02
Pricing
Akamai API GatewayAmazon 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 API GatewayAmazon CloudFront
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
Akamai API GatewayAmazon CloudFront
API Management
Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
Akamai API Gateway
7.7
1 Ratings
9% below category average
Amazon CloudFront
-
Ratings
API access control8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
API usage data8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
API user onboarding8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
API versioning7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Usage billing and payments7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
API monitoring and logging9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Akamai API GatewayAmazon CloudFront
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(17 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Akamai API GatewayAmazon CloudFront
Likelihood to Recommend
Akamai
It is really helpful for managing [the] scaling of systems with need and utilizing resources when needed. Also, DevOps support for deployment plans is quite useful when deploying applications. Monitoring systems with graphQL and utilizing them in APIs is quite helpful when used in Microservices systems to identify system capabilities and user utilization of applications.
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Amazon AWS
Amazon CloudFront is the perfect solution for any type of company. If a company is small or medium size, CloudFront offers 1 TB monthly free bandwidth which is more than for any small and medium size companies. If we compare the speed of CloudFront with other CDN, CloudFront is way ahead of their competitors and with 1 TB free bandwidth. If someone is ready to invest time in CloudFront documentation then he/she definitely go for it.
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Pros
Akamai
  • Graphically representation in GraphQL
  • Scaling system
  • DevOps management
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Amazon AWS
  • if a website’s static data are based in New York City, people in Boston will get the content faster than people in San Francisco or Tokyo. The farther away customers are from a company’s data center, the slower the website or application loads. This problem can be fixed with a content delivery network like Amazon CloudFront
  • When a visitor requests a file from your website, Amazon CloudFront automatically sends the request to a copy of the file at the nearest edge location. This results in faster download times.
  • You may have great hosting but it doesn’t have the capacity or scalability offered by Google, Microsoft or Yahoo. The better CDNs like Amazon CloudFront offer higher availability, lower network latency and lower packet loss.
  • Amazon CloudFront provides 24/7 email and phone support
  • Amazon CloudFront Free Tier allows you to free up to 50 GB of data transfer and 2,000,000 HTTP and HTTPS requests / month for one year.
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Cons
Akamai
  • Quota enforcement can be simplified
  • Caching mechanism for API with akamai can be improved
  • Gateway configuration can be simplified as details are not much elaborate
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Amazon AWS
  • Kinda of costlier when compared to rivals providing the same service
  • The setup of Distribution is kinda little complicated, need good exposure before setting up the service
  • Sometimes we can go with S3 Delivery service rather than Cloudfront if the website is providing static content and its way cheaper
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Usability
Akamai
No answers on this topic
Amazon AWS
Easy way to integrate a CDN within the AWS infrastructure. It allows further customization based on company needs.
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Support Rating
Akamai
No answers on this topic
Amazon AWS
CloudFront is a good CDN solution. It can be a bit complicated to implement depending on your needs, but AWS tech support is great. You get to avoid a ton of upfront costs by going with CloudFront. It works best in conjunction with other AWS services in your infrastructure. Once you set it up, you won't need to do much to maintain it. It just works.
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Alternatives Considered
Akamai
Akamai [API Gateway] helps better in terms of representation of graphQL and its consumption in monitoring system making a package for deployment speed with monitoring and scaling application with all services and utilizing most of a system without much knowledge of other aspects. Also, [a] user-friendly system helps people to handle [the] system with necessary options
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Amazon AWS
Amazon has always been creative and leading, and I have been using its services for years. They are very reassuring and have fast and responsive support--you can call them from any time zone to respond quickly. High security on servers, open hands on changes, and increasing and decreasing server resources and features.
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Return on Investment
Akamai
  • Decrease in time required for deployment and monitoring by significant amount causing less support resources needed
  • Scaling applications on month-end at high usage time has reduced TAT time for issues and no of issues occurring
  • Quota enforcement has allowed [managing] multiple systems and their needs in respective stakeholders hands and reduced infra teams involvement in [the] management of reoccurring problems
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Amazon AWS
  • RoI for using CloudFront is immense. You can use it for all your certificate management and static asset management of your websites using CloudFront.
  • It is as good or better than any other CDN provider with multi-region support across the world using AWS regions.
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