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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cloudflare

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ACloudflare’s connectivity cloud is a unified platform of cloud-native services designed to help enterprises regain control over their IT environments. Powered by an intelligent, programmable global cloud network, it is built to offer security, performance, visibility, and reliability.

    $20

    per month

    imgix

    Score10 out of 10
    N/Aimgix provides on-demand image processing for websites and mobile apps. imgix’s API lets developers perform image transformations at scale -- from simple crops and compression down to complex things like changing color profiles and adding watermarks -- in real time before an image is served. The vendor states this means images load faster and look better on every screen while saving bandwidth and storage space.N/A

    Azure Front Door

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/AAzure Front Door is a cloud content delivery network (CDN) service that helps users deliver high performance, scalability, and a secure user experiences for content and applications. It includes a customizable rules engine for advanced routing capabilities. It boasts instant scalability with global HTTP load balancing and failover.

    $35

    per month

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    CloudflareimgixAzure Front Door
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    Business
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    $35
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    $330
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    Considered Multiple Products
    Cloudflare
    Chose Cloudflare
    Azure Front Door simply doesn't have the reliability or feature set. We have strict data residency requirements that Microsoft cannot support. I have also not seen AFD offer a similarly robust configuration for WAF rules, observability, and troubleshooting capabilities to what …
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    Chose Cloudflare
    Cloudflare's product offering is more mature and has demonstrated success in preventing some of the largest DDoS attacks observed. Cloudflare also continues to reinvest in their core product offering to ensure they maintain a position as leader in the cybersecurity space.
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    Microsoft
    Chose Azure Front Door
    It's generally hard to compare CDNs, each has its features, POP locations, latency, and availability. We have used many other CDNs, including Akamai, Verizon, and Cloudflare. They are all great, but each has its own advantages/disadvantages. From our perspective, all other …
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
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    DDoS Protection
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    Cloudflare
    8.4
    6 Ratings
    4% below category average
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    Automatic Scalability9.47 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mitigation SLA8.87 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security policy management8.67 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    WAF capabilities8.67 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Request rate limiting7.87 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Traffic filtering7.67 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bot detection8.07 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Global threat intelligence8.87 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Real-time analytics and reporting7.87 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Amazon CloudFront
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Amazon CloudFront
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    Google Cloud CDN
    Score6.2 out of 10
    Google Cloud CDN
    Score6.2 out of 10
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    Azure CDN
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Azure CDN
    Score7.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CloudflareimgixAzure Front Door
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
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    8.2
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    Usability
    8.6
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    9.1
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    6.6
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    8.6
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    Configurability
    9.0
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    Ease of integration
    9.0
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    Product Scalability
    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    CloudflareimgixAzure Front Door
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cloudflare
    Cloudflare has features as a CDN/Gateway/Reverse Proxy that simply don't exist in other solutions. Having so many capabilities under a single platform, with solid support and high uptime, has been essential. I would recommend it for hobby projects all the way to enterprise scale. There's a lot of push around AI and workers. Some feel like Cloudflare is following the hype. But after reading a lot about the new features, a decent amount of them has real value.
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    imgix
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    Microsoft
    Azure Front Door is very easy and fast to set up and implement, if you are looking for an easy solution that is secure and reliable, Front Door does all that and can be configured in a few hours. AFD is a CDN with WAF, accordingly, it is well suited for any CDN Scenario, other providers such as Akamai or Verizon have a more expensive base price and are harder to manage/configure, Front Door is simple, easy, and provides what's needed when it comes to Web App Security. If you have multiple data centers, have apps in different regions, or targeting a global audience, AFD is an excellent option to get up to speed quickly. If you are looking for more features and capabilities, or planning a very complex setup, Front Door might be sufficient, but other specialized provides such as Imperva, Cloudflare or Akamai are generally a bit more advanced (but harder to set up and maintain). It always depends on the scenario, but for us, Front Door was an excellent option and served us very well with no issues.
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    Pros
    Cloudflare
    • The best part is the content delivery network. Cloudflare has a large network of data centres around the world that helps cache and delivers content quickly to our customers.
    • Cloudflare offers us with a fast and reliable DNS service and with the world class features such as Cloudflare workers, SSL verification, certificate management and web application firewall. When all of these are combined together, it provides very strict security for our organization.
    • One of the most important feature that we use is the analytics and threat detection. It provides us with the real time insights of all the threats originating from multiple locations and landing on our websites.
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    Microsoft
    • Content delivery across all continents
    • Web & media acceleration
    • Web application firewall
    • Backend geo-availability
    • Reporting & access metrics
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    Cons
    Cloudflare
    • In some cases, using Cloudflare can actually lead to slower website speeds if the network is congested or if the website's traffic is particularly heavy.
    • Some website owners may find that the level of customization offered by Cloudflare is limited, especially in comparison to other solutions.
    • While Cloudflare is easy to set up and manage, it may be too complex for users who are not familiar with web technologies.
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    Microsoft
    • Better control over origin caching
    • Hierarchal Management UI instead of distributed management
    • TLS & Cipher Control
    • Faster publishing or change updates
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cloudflare
    lower cost
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    Usability
    Cloudflare
    Everything is extremely concise and all settings apply immediately and take effect globally. There is no reason to explicitly plan/think in terms of individual regions as one would have to traditional cloud offerings (AWS, OCI, Azure). All Cloudflare products integrate seamless as part of a single pipeline that executes from request to response.
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    Microsoft
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cloudflare
    In 6+ years of relying on Cloudflare, I think we experienced one or two brief outages that were Cloudflare's fault.
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    Microsoft
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    Performance
    Cloudflare
    Their Argo for the global network is the core feature we love.
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    Support Rating
    Cloudflare
    While I have had good support in the past from Cloudflare's technical support team, I have had some terrible experiences with billing support. I have had multiple tickets sent to their billing support that I will never receive a reply to for over a month. When I finally do get a reply, it has been an automated email that never gives me an answer to my question.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cloudflare
    Very well executed implementation where our team was able to handle the implementation with guidance.
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    Microsoft
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cloudflare
    Nothing like it. Organizations can utilize these Cloudflare products to enhance their online presence by improving security, performance, reliability, and developer efficiency. Cloudflare is an American company that delivers services such as DNS, a content delivery network (CDN), and various other additional services to make websites faster and more secure. Cloudflare is used by over 26 million sites, resulting in the processing of more than 1 billion IP addresses each day.
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    imgix
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    Microsoft
    It's generally hard to compare CDNs, each has its features, POP locations, latency, and availability. We have used many other CDNs, including Akamai, Verizon, and Cloudflare. They are all great, but each has its own advantages/disadvantages. From our perspective, all other providers were much harder to configure and maintain and their overall cost was higher than AFD. For example, Verizon was great, performance was excellent, but reporting/logging was not up to our expectations, and we had many issues with its Rules Engine. AFD is great for delivering your web apps globally quickly and easily, the cost is reasonable and comes with very little operational overhead, the logging and reporting capabilities are very good, additionally, its integration with Azure Cloud Services gives it an advantage over other competitors.
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    Scalability
    Cloudflare
    They are built for scale and have the capacity to handle all the traffic we could ever expect to get.
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    Return on Investment
    Cloudflare
    • Immediate ROI on Registrar and DNS hosting while giving a single plane of glass to managing both with domain registrations at cost, and no cost DNS hosting
    • WAF helped us move at risk servers/applications into a protected state allowing us to perform remediations at a measured pace and get them done right instead of band aide solutions.
    • CDN proxying increase the speed of our website while simultaneously reducing server load.
    • DMARC management and report interpretation allow use to identify weak points in our email systems, remediate and move to stricter policies without significantly increasing staff time spent managing it.
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    Microsoft
    • AFD implementation was approx. 80% cheaper than other providers, from initiation to operation.
    • It allowed us to minimize backend resources size/processing power, taking all the load from client requests, cutting tens of thousands of dollars monthly on compute, memory, and network bandwidth.
    • Overall, the ROI of AFD is very quick, it is not an expensive solution, therefore, its ROI goals are easy to calculate and achieve, our overall ROI exceeded 300%.
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