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1. Fastly CDN

By Fastly

4.8
(354 Ratings)

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.

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2. Akamai CDN

By Akamai

4.7
(342 Ratings)

Our experience with Akamai has been fairly traditional. It's clearly a robust, enterprise CDN with huge global reach, and that scale shows in its reliability and resilience during peak periods. From a stability and uptime perspective, it does what it's supposed to do. That said, it can feel quite legacy in places. Compared to some of the newer platforms in the edge and performance space, it doesn't always feel especially modern or agile, particularly from a usability and developer experience standpoint.

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3. Amazon CloudFront

By Amazon Web Services (AWS)

4.6
(324 Ratings)

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.

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4. Cloudflare CDN

By Cloudflare

4.4
(318 Ratings)

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.

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5. Azure Front Door

By Microsoft

4.5
(138 Ratings)

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

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  • Better at delivery and execution
  • More effective at planning and transition
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6. Tata Communications CDN

By Tata Communications

4.5
(57 Ratings)

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

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7. StackPath CDN (Legacy)

By StackPath

4.3
(44 Ratings)

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.

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  • Better at service and support
  • Easier to integrate and deploy
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8. Imperva Secure CDN

By Thales Group (Imperva)

4.5
(30 Ratings)

We are using Imperva as part of our application delivery and security layer, acting as a reverse proxy in front of multiple web services. In our environment it handles traffic for around 30 prod and 9 test applications . From a delivery perspective, it provides stable request handling, traffic inspection and consistent access to backend services. In day to day operations the load on the applications is not so much, but during campaigns and when there is an issue it could it rise a lot. The platform is also reliable during these peaks. Once familiar with the interface, it becomes intuitive to operate and manage.

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  • Amazon CloudFront
  • Cloudflare CDN
  • Azure Front Door
  • Tata Communications CDN
  • StackPath CDN (Legacy)
  • Imperva Secure CDN
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