Akamai CDN Alternatives

My experience with Fastly has been five stars! This starts with their sales, services, and support teams, all of whom are extremely knowledgeable and always willing to train, support and collaborate with their customers. The platform itself is designed to handle everything from simple implementations to highly complex architectures in a fast, secure, and reliable way. This is especially valuable for our reseller and services teams, as we support a wide range of customer needs and use cases.

We use Amazon Cloudfront as the primary CDN in front of our Consumer Apps and APIs at our company. It has been reliable at our scale, with consistently low latency and good cache hit ratios. Native integrations with other AWS services (ALB, S3, WAF, Shield, Route 53) make it straight forward to manage and operate through infrastructure-as-code. Overall, it has helped us improve performance and resiliency without adding much operational overhead.

We selected Cloudflare because they are widely recognized as the market leader in the CDN and reverse proxy space. Initially, we started using Cloudflare because of their extremely fast DNS resolvers, which are among the fastest available globally. Over time we expanded our usage and now rely on Cloudflare as the CDN and reverse proxy for all of our publicly exposed services. The platform provides a combination of CDN capabilities, integrated DDoS protection, and reverse proxy functionality that makes it very easy to securely expose services to the internet. Overall, Cloudflare offers a very mature platform that abstracts a lot of operational complexity and allows us to focus more on our applications rather than on infrastructure management.

Our experience with Google Cloud CDN has been very positive, particularly regarding its performance and global reach. It integrates seamlessly with our existing GCP infrastructure, making the setup process much faster than third party alternatives. We have seen a significant reduction in latency for our global users. The only reason it is not 5 Star is that the pricing model can be a bit complex o forecast. Some advanced cache key customizations have a steeper learning curve than expected.

We chose Azure Front Door primarily because of its seamless integration into the Microsoft Azure ecosystem. Since a large part of our infrastructure is already running in Azure, using a native service for CDN and reverse proxy functionality made the overall architecture much simpler. Azure Front Door allows us to expose our services globally while staying within the Azure platform, which improves manageability and consistency. While it does not offer as many additional features as some competitors, it provides a solid and reliable foundation for delivering public services. Currently we are using Azure Front Door for all our relevant Azure Apllications and another CDN for the rest of our Applications or Applications where we need avanced CDN capabilities

I've had a good experience with Akamai cloud overall.It has been dependable for content delivery and website performance , and the global network helps ensure users get fast response times.Even the security features have also been useful in protecting applications from common web threats.Setting things up and managing daily operations has been in general smooth and support has been helpful whenever we needed assistance

Overall, my experience has been good. It helped me gain experience in content delivery, caching, and monitoring.

I think of StackPath as a "middle ground" between having no CDN at all and implementing a more industrial-strength solution like Fastly, Cloudflare, or Varnish. For that purpose, it has worked well for us in decreasing the response times of our WordPress website and static assets to end users across the globe.