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Akamai
Akamai is a well-established brand name with a great product. It meets and many time exceeds the needs for global content delivery and security management layer at the edge. Fine grain security tuning seems cumbersome as the definition of the app keeps changing. It also requires an investment of time for the setup which doesn't necessarily make sense for smaller scale scenarios. Some products offered by AWS, Azure or the Google Cloud can be more tightly integrated with cloud provider offerings thus easier to configure.

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Retail Company, 10,001+ employeesFastly
Fastly is well suited to be the CDN or the caching layer in your app
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HomebaseComputer Software, 51-200 employees
Pros
- Very advanced compression algorithms and a global content delivery network.
- Sophisticated security features.
- On-demand network scalability.
- Great dashboard and real-time reporting

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Engineer in Engineering
Retail Company, 10,001+ employees- You can put your site behind Fastly and then selectively cache only some of the endpoints. You can modify the responses returned by stripping cookies or other personalization headers.
- You can deliver images, and based on the user agent being Chrome, decide to serve, for example, a WEBP image format instead of PNG or JPG.
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HomebaseComputer Software, 51-200 employees
Cons
- Cost. Akamai is an enterprise level product and the cost can be pretty expensive for smaller organizations.
- Activations can take a while and therefore if you are doing a lot of testing on different scenarios you may spend hours waiting for activations to take effect. However this may not be an issue with Akamai itself but the fact that rules need to be propagated to all edge servers.

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Engineer in Information Technology
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 5001-10,000 employeesNo answers on this topic
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.

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Engineer in Engineering
Retail Company, 10,001+ employeesIt’s the fastest and most configurable.
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HomebaseComputer Software, 51-200 employees
Return on Investment
- Speed up delivery of content and improved user experience for users coming to our website
- Save cost as we do not need as many back end servers to run our web instance because majority of load is being handled by Akamai servers

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Engineer in Information Technology
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 5001-10,000 employees- While I was at Wanelo we were able to put Fastly in front of the growing web app, and selectively cache end points to improve stability and performance. In the meantime we rewrote the app completely in Ruby. We wouldn’t have been able to do that without Fastly.
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HomebaseComputer Software, 51-200 employees
Pricing Details
Akamai
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Additional Pricing Details
—Fastly
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No