Cloudimage vs. Azure Front Door

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cloudimage
Score 6.0 out of 10
N/A
Cloudimage offers a way to optimize and accelerate images for the web. Cloudimage automates the transformation and optimization of images on the fly and accelerates their distribution via the Content Delivery Network (CDN). Cloudimage helps web pages to become faster and lighter, to improve both SEO and the user experience of the web or mobile application. Built by Scaleflex, the Cloudimage plugin helps users to: Optimize images on the fly; image URLs will be…
$59
per month
Azure Front Door
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Azure 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
Pricing
CloudimageAzure Front Door
Editions & Modules
Essential
$59
per month
Grow
$119
per month
Scale
$329
per month
Enterprise
Custom Quote
Standard
$35
per month
Premium
$330
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CloudimageAzure Front Door
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsEssential: 100 GB of CDN traffic, 25 GB of cloud storage, 10K Visual operations credits, 99.90% SLA, 1 Custom CNAME with SSL certificate Grow: 250 GB of CDN traffic, 100 GB of cloud storage, 50K Visual operations credits, 99.90% SLA, 2 Custom CNAMEs with SSL certificate Scale: 1000 GB of CDN traffic, 250 GB of cloud storage, 100K Visual operations credits, 99.95% SLA, 4 Custom CNAMEs with SSL certificate Enterprise: Custom volumes for CDN traffic, CloudStorage and Visual operations (credits system), Tailored support, Dedicated Account Manager, Multi-CDN, SAML SSOBase fees (Billed hourly and only for number of hours used)​
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User Ratings
CloudimageAzure Front Door
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(4 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CloudimageAzure Front Door
Likelihood to Recommend
Scaleflex
This software is well-suited when images are hosted on your own server, but it is less well suited when requiring the "full package" such as manipulations, hosting, uploader, etc.
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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
Scaleflex
  • Great world-wide CDN
  • Excellent image quality with extensive processing options
  • Competitive pricing with progressive tiers
  • Good defaults but well organized interface to configure everything precisely
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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
Scaleflex
  • Pricing.
  • Intermittent Dashboard Issues.
  • Image resize traunches. So 100px windows of resizing rather than pixel-perfect rescaling to save on cache size/delivery volume.
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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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Support Rating
Scaleflex
We have a single contact point, but CI has been immaculate with their support offering. Instantaneous and comprehensive.
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Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Scaleflex
We chose Cloudimage for the value for money, and the ability to link with our own hosting.
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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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Return on Investment
Scaleflex
  • Same or lower cost as before and more possibilities than before
  • Using a GDPR respecting, European (French) based company
  • Using more features like watermarking, fallback image, precise 404 handling
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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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