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Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN) Reviews & Product Details

Akamai's Content Delivery Network (CDN) solutions are designed to enhance the speed, reliability, and security of digital content delivery across the globe. By leveraging Akamai's extensive network of servers, businesses can ensure that their websites, applications, and media content are delivered swiftly and efficiently to users, regardless of their location. Key Features and Functionality: - App & API Performance: Akamai offers solutions like API Acceleration to improve the performance and reliability of APIs at scale, and Ion to deliver enhanced user experiences for websites dynamically and efficiently. - Media Delivery: Services such as Adaptive Media Delivery ensure consistent, high-quality online video streaming at massive scale, while Download Delivery provides flawless distribution of large files globally. - Edge Applications: Tools like EdgeWorkers enable developers to deploy custom code at the edge, closer to users, enhancing performance and reducing latency. - Security: Akamai integrates robust security measures, including web application firewalls and DDoS mitigation, to protect content and applications from evolving threats. Primary Value and User Solutions: Akamai's CDN solutions address critical challenges faced by businesses in delivering digital content. By distributing content across a vast network of edge servers, Akamai reduces latency, minimizes the risk of downtime, and ensures a seamless user experience. This is particularly vital for industries like media and entertainment, gaming, and e-commerce, where user engagement and satisfaction are directly tied to content delivery performance. Additionally, Akamai's integrated security features safeguard against cyber threats, providing businesses with a comprehensive solution for content delivery and protection.

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Akamai Technologies

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Dawn Wellhausen

Value at a Glance

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Time to Implement

2 months

Perceived Cost

$$$$$

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venkat k.

Full-stack Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/24/2025

"Its very good"

3/5

What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)?

Its very easy to use and good pricing. Cheap prices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)?

May be more cheaper prices would be good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/9/2025

"Amazing for clearing cache"

5/5

What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)?

The ease of the Akamai intergration is amazing. I use it frequently throughout the day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)?

I have not found anything that i dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alan Y.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/13/2023

"Good option to extend existing global webservice to China"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)?

Integrated with existing Akamai solution. For any company that is already invested and utilizing Akamai CDN network, this is the easiest solution to extend your reach to China. The team is professional in dealing with specific regulations requirements in China. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)?

Slightly higher cost compared to some local providers from China. However, we still found a single global service provider is much easier to manage than having to deal with a specific service provider for a specific region. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/10/2023

"Akamai All in One Solution"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)?

In terms of security solutions, Akamai provides many different security solutions depending on the requirement. The highlights here are that all their solutions can work as one meaning all data are consolidated and correlated afterward, giving you the best data for visibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)?

Akamai is known for acquiring other vendor to add it to their current solutions. The drawback here is that so many added solutions within a short time make it harder to learn and gain expertise on it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Akamai helps protect to secure web traffic within a given environment. It can be through HTTP/HTTPS layer, DNS layer protection and any other protocol residing on Layer 7 of OSI Layer. As a distributor, it helps us to position this product easily because of its offerings. As a user, I can easily manage all these solutions because of a central management system or single pane of glass management available out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lan Y.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/2/2023

"Extending global web presnese to China"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)?

Integrate with existing Akamai services well, and extend your existing global presence to China. Great security features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)?

Cost higher compared to local service provider such as Alibaba Cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Justine (Stein) E.

Leading Brand Marketing

Consumer Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/22/2023

"REAL GAME CHANGER FOR WEB PERFORMANCE AND SECURITY"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)?

Akamai software has a vast content delivery network which has drastically improved our website load times. Their Web Application Firewall (WAF) and DDoS mitigation services are also outstanding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)?

More budget-friendly options tailored to startups and smaller enterprises would be a great deal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sahil G.

QA Cybersecurity Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/13/2022

"Akamai for business"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)?

Akamia is an industry leader in WAF solutions and their DDOS protection is one of the best services in terms of configuration, very low latency issue, high availability, and cost

their WAF is also integrated with various AST solutions to protect assets and apply patches temporary by integration with AST

Their account takeover protection is also provide advance protection with spoofing attacks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)?

Akamia App and API security is a little bit complex to configure and needs some changes in an existing production environment plus minor changes in code and there are some latency issues in production during high traffic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Akamia provides multiple solutions in a single basket (App and API security, DDOS protection, and account takeover protection), the best thing about Akamia is we can easily integrate it with various application security tools to create rules as soon as a vulnerability is reported so it will act as a temporary patch Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Richie Y.

Financial advisor

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/6/2022

"Great Cloud System"

5/5

What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)?

Akamai offers great cloud services with high security measures. It is quick and safe. the uploads run in the background and it is seemless. Their Ddos protection is alsot unparrael with what we use. the security they offer allows us to work without any worries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)?

there are times that the cloud system is down and makes for a lag. this does cause a problem once and awhile but it is quite rare it happens. when the issues arise the problems are usually solved within the 1st hour. Overall, it is still 1 of the most reliable services out there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kristy K.

Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/15/2022

"promiscuous mode"

5/5

What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)?

The best part is the caching process. The way it caches in the nearby areas is really worth appreciating. I have been using Akamai CDN since quite a long time i.e. around 5 years till now and its doing great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)?

As of now there is nothing much that I can think of as dislike in Akamai COntent delivery Network i.e. CDN. I believe they can improvise the plans though. But again, its not that necessary. Guys are doing great job Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dhruval J.

Founder

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/23/2022

"It's way costly but definitely worths the price"

4/5

What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)?

Our best alternative for content delivery network is Akamai after Cloudflare. We have a lot of customers for those we have developed custom software, and on each case, Akamai has given us precisely what we need. Also it is quick and simple to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)?

Akamai's preliminary configuration is hard to understand, and the API is difficult to implement. We also encountered initial issues with large pictures and videos struggling to load, which demanded extra development work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.