Akamai CDN vs. Google Cloud CDN

Akamai CDN

Akamai CDN

79 Reviews and Ratings

Google Cloud CDN

Google Cloud CDN

48 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Akamai CDN	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	Akamai 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
Google Cloud CDN	Score 6.4 out of 10	N/A	The Google Cloud CDN is touted as a low cost option with tight integration with Google Cloud apps and services.	N/A

Pricing

Akamai CDN

Google Cloud CDN

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Pricing Offerings
Akamai CDN	Google Cloud CDN
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Akamai CDN	Google Cloud CDN
Considered Both Products	Akamai CDN Verified User Anonymous Chose Akamai CDN pioneer in the CDN with stellar reputation Enterprise-grade solutions Incentivized Helpful? PRABHAT MISHRA Senior Devops Engineer 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? Vaibhav Choksi Senior Product Manger, Digital Commerce 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 Helpful? Phillip Holder Consultant - Senior Business System Analyst Chose Akamai CDN I am just getting into AWS at work and it will be difficult to supplant the incumbent Akamai solution as there is simply nothing wrong with it - from my point of view. I suspect we will be looking at integrating Akamai/AWS solutions in the future as the effort and or business … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Akamai CDN Akamai offers sophisticated security and defense layers in addition to its content delivery network. Its focus on security is well known and beats offerings from AWS and Azure to punches. It redefined the cloud security market by extending its core offering. Incentivized Helpful? Joshua Dickson Director of Engineering 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Akamai CDN I have not evaluated or used any direct competitors for Akamai, so it's hard to say how it compares. All I know is that Akamai is very powerful and has now become an integral part of our existing set-up. Incentivized Helpful? Adam Rooney Developer Chose Akamai CDN I haven't had much experience with other CDNs and to be honest I haven't heard of many more other than Akamai which just goes to show which one is the most trusted and proves to be the best. There are others out there, such as Cloudflare, that claim to provide a similar service … Incentivized Helpful? Schyler Manning Staff Software Engineer Chose Akamai CDN CloudFlare and CloudFront are good for small sites where budgetary costs are the primary concern but Akamai Ion provides a new level of quality and performance. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Akamai CDN CloudFlare is much easier to use. It is much cheaper and from our experience, it works so much better. The support staff at CloudFlare has always been helpful and will get on the phone when we need help. Also, CloudFlare helped us get set up on their platform in about an hour … Incentivized Helpful?	Google Cloud CDN Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Cloud CDN Akamai and CloudFlare are leaders in the CDN and Security sectors. Akamai has a very strong capability and execution in terms of enterprise services. Their offerings are are somewhat similar in some aspects but there is no products in the respective markets that compares to … Incentivized Helpful? CH Cynthia Hinderliter Dept Chair of IT Chose Google Cloud CDN We have limited software developers and don't have the need for a big cloud service provider along with their costs. Google Cloud CDN brings to usr, reliability and brand familiarity. Google Cloud CDN also doesn't bother us with pitches or 1000 emails about the products. We … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Cloud CDN AWS is definitely cheaper than the Google Cloud platform for VM instances. In terms of progression, it is clear that Google Cloud is making significant improvements to the platform. Google Cloud offers the option of a free tier on a wide range of their products. It gives you a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Cloud CDN Did not use other CDNs other than Google Cloud CDN Incentivized Helpful? Ali Kazempour Information Technology Adviser Chose Google Cloud CDN It has More transparency in pricing as well as more services at a lower cost. The ability to stream video and other specialized features, and the ability to manage all projects can be accessed through a separate creative dashboard. The initial setup is very simple and you can … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Cloud CDN We are already using Google Cloud for our infrastructure needs, so it felt like a natural extension to use. We were earlier using AWS CloudFront and some workloads were using Cloudflare. Though to centralise everything, we moved them to Google Cloud CDN. This helps in easier … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Cloud CDN Google CDN was easier to set up and use. Very flexible and exceptionally affordable for my testing. Incentivized Helpful? LM Lokesh Meena Project Manager Chose Google Cloud CDN Fastly was having minimum spend system, when we started using it, and the pricing structure didn't fit our budget, so we decided to change the provider. Also, compared to Google Cloud CDN it was a little bit difficult to set up and use for beginners. Incentivized Helpful? Bruce Emmerling Digital Media Specialist Chose Google Cloud CDN Google Cloud CDN works really well for a reliable CDN service, especially when used with other Google Services. It is highly reliable, efficient, and speedy. That said it can also be difficult to implement and lacks some support services found with other CDN services. It … Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	Akamai CDN	Google Cloud CDN
Small Businesses	Cloudflare Score 8.9 out of 10	Cloudflare Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Cloudflare Score 8.9 out of 10	Cloudflare Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises	Amazon CloudFront Score 7.8 out of 10	Amazon CloudFront Score 7.8 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Akamai CDN	Google Cloud CDN
Likelihood to Recommend	7.3 (0 ratings)	4.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	4.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.5 (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Akamai CDN	Google Cloud CDN
Likelihood to Recommend	Akamai is a superior premium services offering if that's what you need from a CDN. For more typical use cases, we're often more often than not implementing MaxCDN, or integrated CDNs from cloud providers (e.g. CloudFront, Azure CDN, etc). If you find that Akamai's offerings are really what you need, and you are okay paying the premium, the services themselves are great. There's a reason they're used by major enterprises of all sizes, and used for hosting video content from the NFL, etc. Incentivized Joshua Dickson Director of Engineering Read full review	Google Cloud CDN is available globally and supports various load balancers available in different regions around the globe, so I find Google Cloud CDN as one of the best choices for CDN as it serves globally and it is really fast, safe, and secure. It might be not suitable for you if you do not have any technical background. Incentivized KS Kashish Sharma Jr. Marketing Executive Read full review
Pros	Caching is one of the greatest benefits that Akamai allows for, saving time, money and experiencing the user experience. Knowing they provide DDOS and other attack protection gives you peace of mind. How finely you can tune all of the different settings available to you, from blocking IPs, cache settings, headers, redirects and even handling error statuses . Incentivized Adam Rooney Developer Read full review	Google Cloud CDN works really well with other Google cloud platform produces like Google Cloud Storage. Users of Google services will have an easier learning curve. The service can really enhance the overall speed of websites and platforms online. Incentivized Bruce Emmerling Digital Media Specialist Read full review
Cons	Akamai platforms does not come with an intuitive UI to configure and it requires training for set up. Akami is mostly costly and will be proven very expensive for small organization that are not scaled. Akami activation takes a longer time for a lot of testing with multiple scenarios especially with edge servers scenarios. Incentivized Vaibhav Choksi Senior Product Manger, Digital Commerce Read full review	Unable to use any kind of code to show different content. Absence of cloud workers as provided by Cloudfront, Cloudflare and Akamai. No support for dynamic routing. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	There is not really an interface for managing rules directly, compared to market leaders, Google's implementation is probably strong on the technical side but for the average user it might be lacking. There are no advanced features which can be compared to what other leaders in the CDN sector are providing or they can be achieved but with high implementation cost and usage of other products in the Google Cloud suite Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Their support documents are excellent and provide a lot of useful information for all their services. The only reason I didn't give them a 10 is that the time it takes for them to respond to an issue could be slightly faster. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I didn't have the need to use support from Google when I was either testing or setting up my website. Information was easily found by searching online if I needed to, and the options that I needed to install or enable were there on the setup page. Honestly, I was a former systems administrator so most of this stuff is not challenging for me. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Akamai offers sophisticated security and defense layers in addition to its content delivery network. Its focus on security is well known and beats offerings from AWS and Azure to punches. It redefined the cloud security market by extending its core offering. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	We have limited software developers and don't have the need for a big cloud service provider along with their costs. Google Cloud CDN brings to usr, reliability and brand familiarity. Google Cloud CDN also doesn't bother us with pitches or 1000 emails about the products. We went and signed up for it, without dealing with a pushy salesperson. Incentivized CH Cynthia Hinderliter Dept Chair of IT Read full review
Return on Investment	Positive - Akamai vastly reduced the number of content delivery servers needed here, saving money, hardware and management overheads. Negative - I don't think it's a "cheap" option, but also, you get what you pay for and for such a powerful product you don't expect it to be free. Positive - some of the support we have had has been really good. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It has certainly reduced costs and significantly reduced the loading of servers. It has always helped in times of high traffic. Full integration with Google Cloud data storage also saves time and enhances change power. Great for Streaming Video which increases the speed of playing live videos. Incentivized Ali Kazempour Information Technology Adviser Read full review
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