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    Akamai Ion

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AAkamai offers the Ion application delivery controller suite to automatically supply performance optimization to websites and mobile or web applications.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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    Akamai IonAmazon CloudFront
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    Next 524TB
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    $0.03
    Next 350TB
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    Next 100TB
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    Next 40TB
    $0.08
    First 10TB
    $0.09
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    Akamai IonAmazon CloudFront
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    Best Alternatives
    Akamai IonAmazon CloudFront
    Small Businesses
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    Google Cloud CDN
    Score6.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure Application Gateway
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Google Cloud CDN
    Score6.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    NetScaler
    Score8 out of 10
    Azure CDN
    Score7.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Akamai IonAmazon CloudFront
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
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    (17 ratings)
    Usability
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    User Testimonials
    Akamai IonAmazon CloudFront
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Akamai
    • Akamai Ion is excellent if you have the staff to manage the configurations and understand how best to leverage its benefits amidst ongoing Dev work without getting in their way. You'll have to communicate consistently on what the CDN does and does not do as well as drive knowledge sharing sessions on expected behavior or unexpected behavior to help reduce unnecessary troubleshooting from your IT and Dev teams when tickets/issues arise.
    • Akamai Ion is best suited for well equipped and well informed IT or Marketing teams that can leverage the delivery benefits of caching and offload. Doing so will increase customer satisfaction, reduce bounce rates, improve conversion rates as well as drive more time on site.
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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
    • Ease of management with good UI for making rules and behaviors.
    • There is also an API and Code integration for the advanced Dev-Ops team to use as well.
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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
    • The learning curve on using a CDN is steep and requires class time. The initial onboarding and integration with the business' DevOps teams should be a bit closer relationship.
    • Global vs. Regional management can be a bit challenging if your account is centralized overseas, and you want a local time-zone account manager on your time.
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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
    • Support for tickets has gotten better/quicker over the years.
    • Also, there is a wealth of information on the knowledge base, documentation, and there is also a message board too now.
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    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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    Akamai
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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
    • Improved conversion rates.
    • Reduced page load times.
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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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