Google Cloud CDN Compared
August 14, 2025

Google Cloud CDN Compared

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 4 out of 10
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Reseller

Overall Satisfaction with Google Cloud CDN

We use Google Cloud CDN for live ecommerce and experience websites for our customers, the Google Cloud CDN is being used to distribute static assets and serve the final users with a lower latency. It is being used together with other services like Cloud Armor and Load Balancing since it's pretty easy to integrate together with those

Pros

  • Network Latency
  • Content Delivery
  • Static Assets

Cons

  • Advanced Image Management
  • Enhanced Protection
  • Ease of use
  • Lower Costs for egress traffic
  • Higher ratings in website analysis tools due to improved networking
There is not really an interface for managing rules directly, compared to market leaders, Google's implementation is probably strong on the technical side but for the average user it might be lacking. There are no advanced features which can be compared to what other leaders in the CDN sector are providing or they can be achieved but with high implementation cost and usage of other products in the Google Cloud suite
Akamai and Cloudflare are leaders in the CDN and Security sectors. Akamai has a very strong capability and execution in terms of enterprise services. Their offerings are are somewhat similar in some aspects but there is no products in the respective markets that compares to their offering. Google Cloud CDN can cover all of the essential tools that an infrastructure would need but for any advanced requirement on the CDN side that goes beyond simple Content Delivery and Network Throughput, i might reccomend other products just like Akamai or Cloudflare. Especially nowadays, an automated or semi-automated bot management solution would be key as a standard offering in a CDN for any live web service. Cloud Armor and other classic WAF solutions are not entirely suitable

Do you think Google Cloud CDN delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Google Cloud CDN's feature set?

No

Did Google Cloud CDN live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Google Cloud CDN go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Google Cloud CDN again?

Yes

There are mainly two reasons i would proceed with reccomending Google Cloud CDN for implementation on a project and they are both linked to the ease of implementation in the suite of Google Cloud tools
If you have a live website distributing a large amount of cacheable assets, you might want to explore Google Cloud CDN due to the lower cost of network egress for these assets compared to straight egress coming out of a load balancer or dedicated IP
Google Cloud CDN is also reccomended due to the lower latency if your users are spread apart geographically, since it improves network latency

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