Akamai Edge DNS vs. AWS Certificate Manager

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Akamai Edge DNS
Score 9.3 out of 10
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Akamai Edge DNS is a managed DNS touting high availability and strong DDoS protection, deployable as a primary or secondary DNS solution.N/A
AWS Certificate Manager
Score 8.4 out of 10
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AWS Certificate Manager is a service that lets users provision, manage, and deploy public and private Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with AWS services and internal connected resources.N/A
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Akamai Edge DNSAWS Certificate Manager
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Akamai Edge DNSAWS Certificate Manager
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
Akamai Edge DNSAWS Certificate Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.1
(4 ratings)
Usability
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10.0
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Support Rating
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8.7
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Akamai Edge DNSAWS Certificate Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
Akamai
Well suited when you have a high-turnover staffing model or can't get everyone trained on security best practices. Also well suited as a starting place for getting a zero-trust network up and running. A tool like Fast DNS gives you a web based portal to see traffic analysis, too, which for us was very important.
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Amazon AWS
I would always recommend AWS Certificate Manager for anyone using AWS cloud services. The perfect scenario would be with your domain managed by AWS Route 53 as you can obtain auto renewal of certificates with really good security for all your public facing application that uses CloudFront, ALB or API Gateway.
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Pros
Akamai
  • DDoS protection
  • Starting place for a zero-trust network
  • Protection for dns spoofing
  • Better protection for our remote employees
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Amazon AWS
  • Issue, Renew and Validate SSL Certificates.
  • Allows us to integrate it with other AWS Services.
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Cons
Akamai
  • Many features and knowing which ones suit our business case
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Amazon AWS
  • Sometimes ACM certificates don't work with ELB.
  • No automatic alert on certificate expiration.
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Usability
Akamai
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Amazon AWS
AWS historically has had very confusing interfaces. But in recent times they have improved them. AWS Certificate Manager is a clear sample of this. The interface is clear and straightforward, with no useless or cryptic options. Really I can't think of a way the interface could be better with the actual options available.
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Akamai
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Amazon AWS
They do a great job.
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Alternatives Considered
Akamai
Akamai wins hands down because of their distributed model (their worldwide CDN which is top notch). We've trusted them for other hosting and media distribution and it was a natural to use them for DNS. Feature wise, they are better, for our use cases, then either Google Cloud or Azure
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Amazon AWS
Easy to implement within a few clicks, or even from command line, the alternatives doesn't integrate that easy with AWS Application Load Balancers or AWS CloudFront
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Return on Investment
Akamai
  • Fast DNS is core to our protection model, so while is an IT budget line item, is used to protect the entire org.
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Amazon AWS
  • We're saving our spent on SSL certificates As it dosen't costs at all.
  • Limited to AWS only, Certificates issued by ACM can be used with AWS managed services only.
  • It doesn't support automatic domain verification with other DNS management systems.
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