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What is Akamai?

Akamai Technologies, headquartered in Boston, offers a Akamai: a content delivery network (CDN).

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Market Leading CDN

8 out of 10
April 21, 2017
Incentivized
Akamai is our content delivery network of choice and helps us to serve assets to users as quickly and efficiently as possible. Their CDN …
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Akamai Technologies, headquartered in Boston, offers a Akamai: a content delivery network (CDN).

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Product Demos

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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Akamai's use cases span various areas, providing solutions for businesses looking to optimize their online presence. With its premium-tier CDN offering, Akamai helps offload server load and improve customer experiences through closer edge locations. Users have consistently praised the stability and dependability of Akamai, enabling them to handle high traffic volumes and remain operational during peak times. The platform's granularity in rules, settings, tweaks, and adjustments has proven highly valuable for optimizing content loading, allowing users to fine-tune their websites and deliver content with speed and efficiency.

As a cloud platform, Akamai is widely utilized for delivering secure and high-performing user experiences globally on B2B and B2C websites. By leveraging Akamai's edge servers, organizations can reach customers across different regions effectively. Additionally, Akamai's security features, including WAF Site Shield, provide protection against threats, ensuring website safety. Moreover, Akamai serves as a content delivery caching layer for infrastructure acceleration while also offering load balancing capabilities for faster and more efficient content delivery, enhancing the overall customer experience. Whether it is reducing overhead and improving page loading speed for eCommerce applications or serving as a failover tool for global websites, Akamai proves to be a reliable solution that meets diverse needs in today's digital landscape.

Edge caching with CDN tools: Several users have found Akamai's edge caching with CDN tools to be highly beneficial as it has offloaded repetitive work from more expensive application servers, resulting in significant time and cost savings.

Robust DDoS protection services: Many users appreciate that Akamai's DDoS protection services are considered robust. This feature provides a sense of peace of mind, knowing that their online security is well-taken care of.

Fine-tuning capabilities: Users value the ability to finely tune different settings available in Akamai, such as blocking IPs, cache settings, headers, redirects, and error status handling. This level of control allows for a tailored and optimized experience to meet specific needs.

Daunting and confusing user interface: Several users have found the user interface of Akamai to be overwhelming and perplexing, particularly for new users. This has made it challenging for them to navigate through the platform and understand its functionalities.

Non-competitive pricing tiers: Many reviewers have expressed dissatisfaction with the pricing structure of Akamai, stating that it is often not competitive compared to other companies offering CDN services. This has deterred some potential customers from choosing Akamai as their preferred provider.

Lack of intuitive configuration: Some users have mentioned that configuring Akamai platforms is not intuitive and requires specialized training. This has created a barrier for basic use, leading to frustration among users who expected a more user-friendly setup process.

Based on user reviews, users suggest the following recommendations for Akamai: Consider alternative CDN options such as Azure or Amazon CDN instead of Akamai. Take advantage of Akamai's seamless integration with other products offered by the company. Carefully review contracts and foster a strong relationship with the account manager to ensure a smooth implementation of Akamai's services. Please keep in mind that these recommendations are based on the experiences and opinions shared by users in their reviews.

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Reviews

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October 11, 2022

Global growth assured

JB
Javier Bueso
CSO (Chief Security Officer)
Enagás (Utilities, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Good for international companies, in scenarios where big files are downloaded it could be very expensive.We use the CDN service to avoid network congestion problems especially when it comes to distribution of heavy content such as graphics and videos. Distributing content to users from our datacenter was not feasible. CDNs facilitate this task and allow sharing of text, graphics, scripts and multimedia files and software downloads, video streaming on demand ...
February 25, 2022

Akamai- World's leading CDN provider

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Marketing & Advertising Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
The robust CDN solution packs a lot of heat – limitless scalability, optimized content delivery, and last-mile acceleration. You will find Akamai CDN solution extra useful if you are looking to deliver video and other types of multimedia content.

If you have a small number of viewers of your web content and/or your geographic scale is limited and/or your have limited budget, you probably don’t need Akamai CDN.
August 09, 2021

All my CDN requirements in one company: Akamai

Verified User
Engineer in Professional Services
Telecommunications Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Store documents that need to be accessed by multiples users at the same time, saving in Internet cost. Also helps to keep the storage cost low and increase customer satisfaction as the downloads are fast, reliable, and geographical close to the customer. We use Akamai to store and share documents with several hundred users concurrently.
February 21, 2020

If you need a scalable, customizable, and powerful CDN checkout Akamai!

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Airlines/Aviation Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I think Akamai is an excellent tool for an organization that deals with high volumes of traffic and wants to provide a solution for improving content delivery. For a small organization, Akamai may not be the best and most affordable solution.
July 06, 2019

Akamai helps you scale with its capabilities in CDN

Vaibhav Choksi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Vaibhav Choksi
Senior Product Manger, Digital Commerce
Dell Technologies (Computer Hardware, 51-200 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
The Akamai Property Manager is the latest version in the configuration management portal for managing edge caching configurations that have improved from its previous version. On the other side, the UI is not very user-friendly and needs to be improved.
June 06, 2019

Akamai is the go-to product for web-based security and performance - no contest!!!!

Phillip Holder | TrustRadius Reviewer
Phillip Holder
Consultant - Senior Business System Analyst
Rogers Communications (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited for large complex organizations that require detailed web-based solution and a flexible vendor who can handle any and all issues.

It is not that well suited for smaller organizations simply to do to costs and resource constraints within the same, i.e. many small organizations would not have Akamai skilled developers on hand and or would not need to take advantage or even understand the multitude of web-based solutions Akamai offers.
November 30, 2018

Powerful tool to improve web delivery

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited:
- If your organization is serving customers globally, and you have a website catering to customers from different regions globally, a CDN can speed up your content delivery as traffic can route to nearest edge server instead of the origin.
- Your organization has a lot of micro-sites, subdomains aside from the main site.
- If your site requires an additional layer of protection ie. DDoS protection

Less appropriate:
Your organization is localized in a specific region/country. CDN may not have as much benefit in this case.
September 10, 2018

Legendary security at the edge redefining classic content delivery network for web applications

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Retail Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
June 27, 2018

Review of Akamai!

Joshua Dickson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Joshua Dickson
Director of Engineering
NorthOut (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
February 09, 2018

Akamai - couldn't live without it!

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Airlines/Aviation Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Akamai is (as far as I'm aware) class leading in it's offering, although I haven't used anything else - but it is a really excellent CDN where you don't need to update your file references or anything like that, since you pass through Akamai's edge servers IT development teams don't need to change the way in which they would work in order to get the benefits. In terms of less well-suited scenarios - it's hard to say since you couldn't really use it for purposes other than what it's designed for, although the rules do allow for some pretty impacting changes to be possible, you could potentially take the site down if you were working uninformed.
April 21, 2017

Market Leading CDN

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Retail Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Akamai are the leaders in content delivery networks and their service reflects that. If you want a fast experience for your users then a reliable CDN is essential and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Akamai.
April 20, 2017

Akamai Recommendation Is To Use It!

Adam Rooney | TrustRadius Reviewer
Adam Rooney
Developer
M and M Direct (Retail, 501-1000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
At times when we need a piece of content on the site to display at an EXACT time and we have to be 100% sure that all assets are loaded and changed to the minute Akamai still allowed us to have caching for the bits we need and the flexibility to refresh the pieces of content that we needed.
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