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Great Cloud System
What do you like best about the product?
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
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Akamai has helped reduce our yearly costs significantly. by using one company that offers cloud services and system protection, it has helped us keep our IT fees low and without any worries.
Intuitive, yet easy to onboard and work with
What do you like best about the product?
Akamai is simple to onboard into your environment. The Dashboard is easy to navigate, and reports and overviews into security issues can be accessed quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Web Security was only able to protect ports 80 and 443 sites, so there were sites like Citrix Gateways that I was not able to monitor with Akamai due to the port restrictions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Secures perimeter sites, plus easy access to Edge DNS plus SIEM Collector integration. Increased productivity.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
We switched from Imperva WAF to Akamai and were impressed with how easy it was to integrate.
The best CDN - ever used
What do you like best about the product?
The speed, earlier days - I remember those days where I grab a cup of coffee when a link is clicked and after I come back, I get to see what I wanted. Akamai changed everything into Milliseconds and I've stopped taking coffee during work
What do you dislike about the product?
Akamai's cdn is a wonderful and thoughtful product. There is nothing to dislike unless if somebody wants to be too lazy
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's the speed and security associated with it.
Best tool for cache clear process
What do you like best about the product?
It helps to cache clear for CDN and is able to generate the traffic reports and block the unwanted IP. it helps to do the load test, performance testing, and optimize for the mobile and web user
What do you dislike about the product?
A little bit lagging for support as well as alert.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
cleared the akamai cache to reflect the content in the website immediately
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Good load balancing tool
GTM is awesome!
What do you like best about the product?
Their GTM product is very flexible (rich apis) and stable. This was not the case with my previous DNS provider.
What do you dislike about the product?
Their support is not always the fastest. A couple of times, I had to nudge my account manager to push tickets forward.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have a globally distributed application. We use Akamai's GTM to balance traffic across all the POPs. This will route end-users to the closest healthy POP to them.
CDN Experience
What do you like best about the product?
Self-configuration options and support is great
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost is a bit high and every component are separate charges
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Edge level Caching, Routing based on cookies, origin & host headers, SSL Offloading, Application Security at EDGE, etc
Akamai - Trustworthy for avoiding attacks and caching
What do you like best about the product?
For high traffic sites you want your pages to be cached. Akamai does a good job at that. Also they do great at protecting your site against any attack like DDoS or phishing attack.
Recently launched feature of fast purge is nice as it purges lage under 5 seconds
Recently launched feature of fast purge is nice as it purges lage under 5 seconds
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes purging pages don’t go through. It very rarely happens but that’s the only thing I noticed.
The UI of the site can use some clean up as well.
The UI of the site can use some clean up as well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Here are few -
1. Site is protected against various attacks
2. Pages pull up fast and we have great uptime as they are cached
3. Lot of data monitoring is possible
1. Site is protected against various attacks
2. Pages pull up fast and we have great uptime as they are cached
3. Lot of data monitoring is possible
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It’s a good service. In a way money well spent
Great solution, but highly complex and cumbersome to manage
What do you like best about the product?
They have an amazing number of nodes all over the world, speeding up access to resources needed to load our sites dramatically
What do you dislike about the product?
Managing permissions is almost a dark art, requiring numerous tickets and teams from Akami to be involved, at least that's my experience with them
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Slow site load speeds on the West Coast (Our datacenter is in Toronto)
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Look at Azure/Amazon CDN options instead
Very bad experience
What do you like best about the product?
Akamai is good at Global delivery.
API support is excellent.
API support is excellent.
What do you dislike about the product?
Hidden costs is a big minus.
- They charge extra for their internal traffic(mid gress) if they enable tier distribution serivce which we came to know after they billed us!
- Burst charges
- Overage charges
- They charge extra for their internal traffic(mid gress) if they enable tier distribution serivce which we came to know after they billed us!
- Burst charges
- Overage charges
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CDN delivery
Akamai Audience Analytics (Video Analytics)
What do you like best about the product?
Can be configured, but takes a lot of time to figure out how - not as easy as they try to make it seem.
What do you dislike about the product?
Way more complicated to set up analytics then it should be. Still seems not very advanced; especially when asking specific questions about the product in trying to configure as needed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Video views. Can get video views IF set up as needed
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Akamai can be useful; but the implementation can be tricky so need to be very hands on with requirements and making sure everything is implemented as needed. At times, need to really be pushy as the vendor may try to convince you everything is ok. That said, it feels all video analytics tools are still in the early stages - so take your pick depending on needs.
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