Azure CDN vs. Netbox

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure CDN
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft offers a content delivery network, Azure CDN.N/A
Netbox
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
NetBox is a free and open source tool (Apache 2.0 license) used to model a network's entire presence through the use of purpose-built models, built to serve the needs of network engineers and operators.
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Azure CDNNetbox
Editions & Modules
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Azure CDNNetbox
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
Azure CDNNetbox
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(8 ratings)
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Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
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Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Azure CDNNetbox
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Azure CDN has at hand an infinity of applications and tools to implement in your system and have better control of your data in a clean and secure platform on the web, we recommend this program since the percentage of solutions provided by this program is very high and find a way to make each user's job easier.
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Open Source
Netbox is very well suited when you want to consolidate your inventory in one place. Netbox is also very well suited when you want to generate network configurations. You can request the REST API to get the date of a device and generate network configurations with a templating tool, and that is very easy.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • I found the CDN very easy to setup and configure within the Azure Portal.
  • Being Azure, there are plenty of free tools that allow you to manage the CDN from a UI that is not the portal. This was especially handy when I trained end users how to manage content within their specific realm.
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Open Source
  • Device modelling
  • Device inventory
  • IPAM
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Tough learning curve--you have to be comfortable with the Azure Cloud logic and UI to use it easily
  • Special or uncommon use cases' pricing can be hard to forecast/follow
  • Can be expensive for simple use cases
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Open Source
  • The GraphQL implementation could be better integrated
  • Netbox is usually very reactive except but performance start to drop when requesting 250 devices or more per page
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Usability
Microsoft
I give it 9/10 rating because it solved my problem by Caching my website content on global servers to load faster.
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Open Source
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Support Rating
Microsoft
Great support from the team whenever we're stuck. Very proactive in resolving issues and also making changes as per the requirements of the organization.
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Open Source
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
More user friendly and it’s so easy to learn, the prices may be close to each other, but the service is excellent.
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Open Source
The API is just very well designed. All tools say that what you can do with webUI, you can also do it via the REST API. That is usually not the case except for Netbox, where you can really do everything with the API. For instance with GLPI, you cannot get rack and rack units data with the API, while you can do it via the webUI
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Azure CDN reduced origin instance load by removing the need to constantly serve large numbers of static files, meaning applications can be deployed with smaller/fewer instances.
  • Azure CDN reduces apparent load times to customers by serving cached files out of POPs in the local region of those clients, instead of requiring those clients to make multiple, lengthy requests through to the origin servers.
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Open Source
  • It could integrate very easily in our ecosystem thanks to the API
  • It can be used as a tool for conformance purposes
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