Akamai Prolexic vs. Azure CDN Comparison


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About Akamai Prolexic is a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection platform designed to defend cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure against large-scale network attacks. It can be deployed as an always-on or on-demand cloud service, as an on-premises solution powered by Corero, or as a hybrid combination of both approaches. Prolexic routes incoming traffic through its protection infrastructure, inspects it for attacks, filters malicious traffic, and delivers legitimate traffic to protected systems. The service operates across 32 global anycast scrubbing centers with more than 20 Tbps of dedicated DDoS defense capacity, supported by Akamai's network with more than 1 Pbps of capacity. Prolexic provides a 100% platform availability SLA, a zero-second mitigation SLA, dynamic IPv4 and IPv6 mitigation controls, network-wide ACL and firewall rules, and 24/7/365 support.	About In online content delivery, user experience is everything. Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) lets you reduce load times, save bandwidth, and speed responsiveness, whether you’re developing or managing websites or mobile apps, or encoding and distributing streaming media, gaming software, firmware updates, or IoT endpoints. CDN works seamlessly with Azure services, including Web Apps, Media Services, Storage, and Cloud Services. Apply CDN to your scenarios in just a few clicks. Azure APIs and developer tools give you the performance, reliability, and security you need to build global applications fast. Our APIs also give customers the flexibility to optimize features for availability and performance. Mitigate security threats on the content distribution network, such as distributed denial-of-service attacks. Optimize security by enabling HTTPS for your domain names, without additional cost or certificate management.
Platforms Supported Windows Not Supported Mac Not Supported Linux Not Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported	Platforms Supported Windows Not Supported Mac Not Supported Linux Not Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported
Audience Enterprises, network service providers, cloud and hosting providers, SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS companies, and security and network operations teams that need high-capacity DDoS detection, mitigation, and network protection across cloud, on-premises, or hybrid infrastructure	Audience Enterprises requiring a content delivery network solution to ensure secure, reliable content delivery with global reach
Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Supported Online Supported	Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Supported Online Supported
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Pricing No information available. Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Supported	Pricing $0.023 per GB Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Supported
Reviews/Ratings Overall 0.0 / 5 ease 0.0 / 5 features 0.0 / 5 design 0.0 / 5 support 0.0 / 5 This software hasn't been reviewed yet. Be the first to provide a review: Review this Software	Reviews/Ratings Overall 5.0 / 5 ease 5.0 / 5 features 5.0 / 5 design 5.0 / 5 support 5.0 / 5 Read all reviews
	Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros Recommended for enterprises. Excellent response times, 230% faster serving of images on azure blob storage, 200% faster serving of videos on azure blob storage. Ability to use multiple CDN networks. Azure provides 3 CDNs : 1. Akamai CDN 2. Verizon CDN (edgecast CDN) : offers Standard and premium 3. Azure CDN Each CDN has its own special features which makes a multi-CDN infrastructure very fast. Azure has more datacenters and regions than Google Cloud and AWS. Hence, very fast response times. Here's what tests say: Test Image: 5MB image with 1M requests per second. Latency comparison: Azure CDN : 5ms consistent latency AWS CloudFront : 40ms consistent latency Google Cloud CDN : 270ms fluctuating latency Azure has more CDN nodes than any other cloud provider. Cons Azure CDN does not provide dynamic acceleration of web content, but the other 2 CDNs provide it luckily.
Training Documentation Supported Webinars Supported Live Online Not Supported In Person Not Supported	Training Documentation Supported Webinars Supported Live Online Supported In Person Supported
Company Information Akamai Founded: 1998 United States www.akamai.com	Company Information Microsoft Founded: 1975 United States azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cdn/
Alternatives Arbor Edge Defense NETSCOUT	Alternatives Amazon CloudFront Amazon
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Categories DDoS Protection Supported	Categories CDN Supported

Integrations Akamai Supported Azure Database for MariaDB Not Supported Azure Industrial IoT Not Supported Azure Marketplace Not Supported Browshot Not Supported FlexiEPM Not Supported Koolay Not Supported Microsoft 365 Not Supported Microsoft Azure Not Supported MultiTV Not Supported Stackreaction Not Supported TESSA DAM Not Supported Verizon Cloud Not Supported Show More Integrations View All 1 Integration	Integrations Akamai Supported Azure Database for MariaDB Supported Azure Industrial IoT Supported Azure Marketplace Supported Browshot Supported FlexiEPM Supported Koolay Supported Microsoft 365 Supported Microsoft Azure Supported MultiTV Supported Stackreaction Supported TESSA DAM Supported Verizon Cloud Supported Show More Integrations View All 13 Integrations
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