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    Akamai API Gateway

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/AAkamai offers their API Gateway, touting easy control and access to enterprise applications via their services.N/A

    Amazon CloudFront

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ACloudFront is the content delivery network (CDN) from Amazon Web Services.

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    Features
    Akamai API GatewayAmazon CloudFront
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of Akamai API Gateway and Amazon CloudFront
    Feature
    Akamai API Gateway
    7.7
    1 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Amazon CloudFront
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    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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    Akamai API GatewayAmazon CloudFront
    Small Businesses
    Amazon API Gateway
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Google Cloud CDN
    Score6.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure API Management
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Google Cloud CDN
    Score6.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    OCI API Management
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Azure CDN
    Score7.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Akamai API GatewayAmazon CloudFront
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
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    9.0
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    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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