Azure CDN

Azure CDN

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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.

About

Filestack revolutionizes content management with its powerful, easy-to-use API, offering developers a comprehensive solution for file and media handling. As the #1 developer service for uploads, it enables seamless content ingestion from any source, including web, mobile, and cloud storage. Filestack's intelligent processing capabilities transform, convert, and optimize files on-the-fly, while its high-performance CDN ensures lightning-fast, secure delivery of responsive content. With features like an embeddable viewer for in-app display and flexible storage options, Filestack streamlines the entire content workflow, from upload to delivery, empowering developers to create superior user experiences efficiently.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Enterprises requiring a content delivery network solution to ensure secure, reliable content delivery with global reach

Audience

Content Management software for everyone

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$0.023 per GB
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$69 monthly
Free - $0 forever
Start - $69 billed monthly
Grow - $199 billed monthly
Scale - $379 billed monthly
Enterprise - Custom tailored to your needs
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.7 / 5
ease 4.7 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 4.5 / 5
support 4.7 / 5

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.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • I appreciate that Filestack offers an easy integration via API, which really simplifies the process for me. I like how it abstracts away the file transformation bit, including functions like file resize, compress, and convert transformations. Filestack's built-in validation and security provide peace of mind, and I'm impressed by their cloud storage and CDN solutions. As someone constantly deciding between building things in-house or using third-party solutions, Filestack makes outsourcing file handling, storage, and CDN an attractive option.
  • Features a proprietary Content Ingestion Network (CIN) designed to make uploads, especially mobile uploads more reliable. Transformation tools via API. I can easily transform, resize, convert, optimize, and apply effects to images, videos, and documents before they are delivered. This includes format conversions like WEBP to JPG, In addition powerful AI features capabilities like object detection, explicit/unsafe content detection, image tagging, OCR.
  • Handles uploads, conversions, storage & delivery in one API — saves tons of time and reduces dev headaches.
  • Filestack makes uploading files so much easier. Its AI capabilities, like auto-tagging and OCR, save a lot of time, and the CDN support loads files quickly. Filestack is a great choice for smooth file handling!
  • I love that it has loads of source integrations, Built-in CDN, and AI features

Cons

  • Pricing is a very minor concern, for smaller usage it’s fine, but as file volume increases, the costs can mount up Onboarding is straightforward for basic use, but when trying to handle more specific requirements, I had to spend extra time understanding certain parts.
  • Complex workflows require to study closely the documentation to know everything that Filestack offer. in the early day it's important to monitor the billing to understand how much it cost. in particular when using CPU heavy features like AI and converting/resizing.
  • Limited free plan, some features are locked early.
  • Filestack gets expensive as your project grows. While the cost may be a concern for small teams or startups, the performance and reliability can justify it for bigger projects.
  • Filestack gets expensive as the project grows, and the cost can constrain the budget. Also, the docs are lacking

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Microsoft
Founded: 1975
United States
azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cdn/

Company Information

Filestack
Founded: 2012
United States
www.filestack.com

Alternatives

Alternatives

Cloudflare Tunnel

Cloudflare Tunnel

Cloudflare
VNCDN

VNCDN

VNETWORK Joint Stock Company
TinyPNG

TinyPNG

Tinify
imgix

imgix

Zebrafish Labs
Alibaba Cloud CDN

Alibaba Cloud CDN

Alibaba Cloud

Categories

CDN

Categories

Content Management Features

Audio Content
Customizable Templates
Document Indexing
E-forms
Full Text Search
Image Editor
SEO Management
Text Editor
Version Control
Video Content
Website Management

Document Management Features

Access Controls
Archiving & Retention
Collaboration Tools
Compliance Tracking
Document Archiving
Document Assembly
Document Capture
Document Conversion
Document Delivery
Document Indexing
Document Retention
Electronic Signature
Email Management
File Recovery
File Type Conversion
Forms Management
Full Text Search
Offline Access
Optical Character Recognition
Print Management
Version Control

File Sharing Features

Audit Trail
Chat / Messaging
Collaboration
Document Management
Drag & Drop
Electronic Signature
Encryption
File Synchronization
Search
User Management
Version Control
Workflow Management

Integrations

Stackreaction
Akamai
Angular
Azure Database for MariaDB
Azure Industrial IoT
Azure Marketplace
Browshot
Egnyte
Facebook
FlexiEPM
Google Drive
Koolay
Microsoft 365
Quickwork
React
Verizon Cloud
Workers by Delos
Wufoo
Zapier
Zight

Integrations

Stackreaction
Akamai
Angular
Azure Database for MariaDB
Azure Industrial IoT
Azure Marketplace
Browshot
Egnyte
Facebook
FlexiEPM
Google Drive
Koolay
Microsoft 365
Quickwork
React
Verizon Cloud
Workers by Delos
Wufoo
Zapier
Zight
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