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Reliable, robust and helpful
What do you like best about the product?
First, a disclaimer: I am a product/project manager, not an expert in CDNs and cloud hosting, so I cannot comment on deeply technical aspects of the Akamai ecosystem. But having used Akamai as a CDN on several highly-trafficked global websites, I have always had a good experience of Akamai as a robust, highly sophisticated system to ensure resilient global delivery.
I particularly appreciate the customer service provided from onboarding to operations, and the commitment to customer success. There is a structured process to take clients through the service, to ensure that configuration is managed correctly, and that all possible optimisations are adopted.
I have also found the Akamai online portal easy to use to execute simple configurations and purge the Akamai cache - simple enough for non-technical users such as myself to feel they have control over content appearing around the world.
I particularly appreciate the customer service provided from onboarding to operations, and the commitment to customer success. There is a structured process to take clients through the service, to ensure that configuration is managed correctly, and that all possible optimisations are adopted.
I have also found the Akamai online portal easy to use to execute simple configurations and purge the Akamai cache - simple enough for non-technical users such as myself to feel they have control over content appearing around the world.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have had no specific problems with Akamai.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Akamai to deliver web content to large global audiences, taking the load off our origin servers and ensuring efficient, controlled content distribution.
Akamai is the Leader in caching and serving websites
What do you like best about the product?
Caching our web properties to make them available to the public en mass.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes hard to learn the new Property Manager over the Config Manager.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are serving our websites without have the load on the origin servers.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Still the leader in providing caching for web properties.
CDN with a Reputation
What do you like best about the product?
Akamai is a trusted name in content delivery, and well known for their other products. Using their CDN services just feels good. Of course, it does not disappoint. Their UI is intuitive, and easy to use in general.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI seems a little outdated in terms of styling. Even with a solid product, they can't hang in terms of UI design with Cloudflare and the like.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CDN services! It's nice to use Akamai if you also want performance monitoring and the like..
Recommendations to others considering the product:
USE THEIR OTHER PRODUCTS. They integrate seamlessly, so why not?
The most recognizable CDN
What do you like best about the product?
Akamai has a large network of edge servers (they claim to be within 1 hop of 85% of users), and they do provide very fast load times to end users. They also provide some useful analytics about traffic and site visitors.
What do you dislike about the product?
Their console isn't very intuitive, and they are a little slow to provision resources behind the scenes - certificates can take days, etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As a good CDN, they reduce load on our servers and speed up delivery to the end user.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Akamai is a good CDN, but they are not very agile. You definitely have to plan out changes to your properties in advance.
The leader in the CDN business
What do you like best about the product?
Akamai is the global leader in Content Delivery Network (CDN) services, making the Internet fast, reliable and secure for its customers. It's one of the most reliable CDN's in the market and they consistently perform at or near the top in every region of the world
What do you dislike about the product?
Users don't have granular control over the security policies like on other, newer CDN services, however this can be a good thing if you dont want to manage it on your own or dont have the expertise to do so
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use the caching technology in one of our websites and it is really good, so if the server ever goes down, users get to experience a cached version of it
Recommendations to others considering the product:
On a large scale Akamai is really great for larger quantities of data, but if you are not there yet you can use other CDNs like CloudFlare
I have used Akamai for Video Delivery as a CDN
What do you like best about the product?
The performance of Akamai is great and so is the coverage.
What do you dislike about the product?
They have aggressive sales people and try to auto renew you without telling you when your contract is up.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Video delivery performance is the problem I am solving, using Akamai speeds this up considerably.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you review the contracts in great detail, and you establish a good relationship with your account manager. They tend to change a lot so you may want to have regular meetings with your account manager. Also be careful they auto renew contracts without giving much notice.
Super enterprise, lots of features, frustrating UX
What do you like best about the product?
Does literally everything we might need it to do
What do you dislike about the product?
Convoluted APIs and automation interface
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Serves our pages over a CDN, works fine
Great CDN with lots of performance improvement tools
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use and other tools that Akamai provide, such as Ion and Image Converter. They really leverage the concept of faster content delivery by providing great tools to optimize delivery and performance for end user.
What do you dislike about the product?
Control panel is very ugly and sometimes hard to use. It really needs a better interface and become lightweight,
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Caching content to provide a always available static website and usage of Akamai WAF to protect our endpoints.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Akamai has a great support and features. It is easy to configure and provide a lot of features to optimize not only content caching but also end user performance (view Akamai Ion). It is worth the price payed,
Our choice for document and image storage for our customers
What do you like best about the product?
Akamai is our prefered choice for content delivery, we have a number of customer that we have written bespoke software for and every occasion Akamai has provided us with exactly what we want, it is easy to use and fast.
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial configuration of Akamai is difficult to understand and the API a bit difficult to configure. We also had initial problems with large images and videos failing to load, which required some additional development work.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With writing bespoke software for a number of clients we wanted a solution that gave us all the requirements that could be used for every client requiring a CDN. Akamai provides this and so far it is the only one we use, making our development much easier.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Akamai is a great solution for providing delivery of content to your web applications, it is the product of choice and has fulfilled all our requirements. It makes storing and serving large amount of content much simpler than storing on your own servers
Akamai Review(current customer0
What do you like best about the product?
Global server presence. Reduces latency.
Used for downloads so downloads are expected to be from the closes local server.
Used for downloads so downloads are expected to be from the closes local server.
What do you dislike about the product?
Kind of expensive to use. The variable pricing model is not conducive to our business. Would prefer to have fixed costs for unlimited use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. Distributing apps globally in the fasted and most relevant way possible.
2. We have benefited from Akamai's uptime promise and download speeds, even under the most demanding conditions,
2. We have benefited from Akamai's uptime promise and download speeds, even under the most demanding conditions,
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