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Akamai CDN vs. F5 Distributed Cloud DNS Load Balancer

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Akamai CDN
Score 8.1 out of 10
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Akamai Technologies, headquartered in Boston, offers Akamai Connected Cloud, a content delivery network (CDN) with a variety of services used to guarantee application, API, and media delivery.N/A
F5 Distributed Cloud DNS Load Balancer
Score 8.9 out of 10
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F5’s cloud-based, intelligent DNS with global server load balancing (GSLB) directs application traffic across environments globally, performs health checks, and automates responses to activities and events to maintain high performance among apps.N/A
Pricing
Akamai CDNF5 Distributed Cloud DNS Load Balancer
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Akamai CDNF5 Distributed Cloud DNS Load Balancer
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Akamai CDNF5 Distributed Cloud DNS Load Balancer
Considered Both Products
Akamai CDN
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Anonymous
Chose Akamai CDN
pioneer in the CDN with stellar reputation
Enterprise-grade solutions
PRABHAT MISHRA | TrustRadius Reviewer
PRABHAT MISHRA
Senior Devops Engineer
Chose Akamai CDN
Akami CDN was far better than Amazon CDN, I don't see much security aspect on Amazon Cloudfront Due to which we moved to Akami.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Akamai CDN
I don't have any direct experience with any of the other CDNs, so it's hard to say. Like any solution out there, each service will have its pros and cons. Some will fit your business needs more than others. Akamai is amongst the best and meets our business needs.
Vaibhav Choksi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Vaibhav Choksi
Senior Product Manger, Digital Commerce
Chose Akamai CDN
Akamai is a leader in CDN domain with adaptive media delivery and download delivery and it helps work by reducing the distance between your website and your target audience. It also provides 24X7 support services.
Phillip Holder | TrustRadius Reviewer
Phillip Holder
Consultant - Senior Business System Analyst
Chose Akamai CDN
I am just getting into AWS at work and it will be difficult to supplant the incumbent Akamai solution as there is simply nothing wrong with it - from my point of view. I suspect we will be looking at integrating Akamai/AWS solutions in the future as the effort and or business …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Akamai CDN
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.
Joshua Dickson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Joshua Dickson
Director of Engineering
Chose Akamai CDN
We've used -- and considered -- a whole number of CDN offerings. The good news is that almost all of the CDN products on the market are terrific, and will pay for themselves via increased customer satisfaction and lower monthly hosting bills. For some cases, we're still more …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Akamai CDN
I have not evaluated or used any direct competitors for Akamai, so it's hard to say how it compares. All I know is that Akamai is very powerful and has now become an integral part of our existing set-up.
Adam Rooney | TrustRadius Reviewer
Adam Rooney
Developer
Chose Akamai CDN
I haven't had much experience with other CDNs and to be honest I haven't heard of many more other than Akamai which just goes to show which one is the most trusted and proves to be the best. There are others out there, such as Cloudflare, that claim to provide a similar service …
Schyler Manning | TrustRadius Reviewer
Schyler Manning
Staff Software Engineer
Chose Akamai CDN
CloudFlare and CloudFront are good for small sites where budgetary costs are the primary concern but Akamai Ion provides a new level of quality and performance.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Akamai CDN
CloudFlare is much easier to use. It is much cheaper and from our experience, it works so much better. The support staff at CloudFlare has always been helpful and will get on the phone when we need help. Also, CloudFlare helped us get set up on their platform in about an hour …
F5 Distributed Cloud DNS Load Balancer
User Ratings
Akamai CDNF5 Distributed Cloud DNS Load Balancer
Likelihood to Recommend
7.3
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8.2
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Usability
-
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8.3
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Support Rating
8.5
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User Testimonials
Akamai CDNF5 Distributed Cloud DNS Load Balancer
Likelihood to Recommend
Akamai is a superior premium services offering if that's what you need from a CDN. For more typical use cases, we're often more often than not implementing MaxCDN, or integrated CDNs from cloud providers (e.g. CloudFront, Azure CDN, etc). If you find that Akamai's offerings are really what you need, and you are okay paying the premium, the services themselves are great. There's a reason they're used by major enterprises of all sizes, and used for hosting video content from the NFL, etc.
Joshua Dickson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Joshua Dickson
Director of Engineering
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For small scall env and lower bandwidth apps. Require more on high workloads and additional bandwidth of sustainability. Virtual appliance are most flexible for environment who requires on-prem solutions. Look for flexible subscription and continuous support on various enhancements
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Senthil nathan R
Operations Manager
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Pros
  • Caching is one of the greatest benefits that Akamai allows for, saving time, money and experiencing the user experience.
  • Knowing they provide DDOS and other attack protection gives you peace of mind.
  • How finely you can tune all of the different settings available to you, from blocking IPs, cache settings, headers, redirects and even handling error statuses .
Adam Rooney | TrustRadius Reviewer
Adam Rooney
Developer
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  • Routing
  • Availability
  • Robust
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Senthil nathan R
Operations Manager
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Cons
  • Akamai platforms does not come with an intuitive UI to configure and it requires training for set up.
  • Akami is mostly costly and will be proven very expensive for small organization that are not scaled.
  • Akami activation takes a longer time for a lot of testing with multiple scenarios especially with edge servers scenarios.
Vaibhav Choksi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Vaibhav Choksi
Senior Product Manger, Digital Commerce
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  • Virtualization
  • Flexible subscriptions
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Senthil nathan R
Operations Manager
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Usability
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I gave F5 Distributed Cloud DNS Load Balancer this usability rating because I think F5 Distributed Cloud DNS Load Balancer Review is intuitively designed.
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Anonymous
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Support Rating
Their support documents are excellent and provide a lot of useful information for all their services. The only reason I didn't give them a 10 is that the time it takes for them to respond to an issue could be slightly faster.
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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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Anonymous
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Return on Investment
  • Positive - Akamai vastly reduced the number of content delivery servers needed here, saving money, hardware and management overheads.
  • Negative - I don't think it's a "cheap" option, but also, you get what you pay for and for such a powerful product you don't expect it to be free.
  • Positive - some of the support we have had has been really good.
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Anonymous
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  • The impact F5 Distributed Cloud DNS Load Balancer has on our organization's overall business objectives is that F5 Distributed Cloud DNS Load Balancer is an Instrumental part of our cloud architecture
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