Windows Azure CDN Reviews

Name: Windows Azure CDN
Brand: Microsoft
Rating: 4.2 (12 reviews)

4.2 out of 5

12 reviews
92% willing to recommend

259 followers

What is Windows Azure CDN?

Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) caches static web content at strategically placed locations to provide maximum throughput for delivering content to users. The CDN offers developers a global solution for delivering high-bandwidth content by caching the content at physical nodes across the world.

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Windows Azure CDN is the #5 ranked solution in top CDN solutions. PeerSpot users give Windows Azure CDN an average rating of 8.4 out of 10. Windows Azure CDN is most commonly compared to Cloudflare: Windows Azure CDN vs Cloudflare. Windows Azure CDN is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 44% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a educational organization, accounting for 39% of all views.

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January 2025

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Featured reviews

Muhammad ZaheerNazir

Team Lead and Solutions Architect at Systems Arabia

One of the tool's best features is its ability to handle edge cases. For instance, we encountered a situation where we needed to remove certain files from public access. The solution offered a purge feature that allowed us to remove these files. This feature ensured that the files were deleted from all edge servers. Subsequently, we were able to upload new versions of the files.

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Nikola Svabic

Support lead at P3 Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH

Windows Azure CDN's deployment is very easy. However, if you are setting everything up at a company level, you need to adapt to many things, so it would take considerable time to make everything functional again. Similarly, transferring from on-premise to the cloud will take some time. It depends on the case, but you cannot set it up in just a few days.

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Fernando Coy

DevOps Engineer at Globant

Azure facilitates timely delivery through a platform tailored for multi-region retailing. It ensures efficient product delivery, facilitates product checking, and provides a seamless login experience on web pages. These integrations are essential for any retail company looking to optimize its solution. Azure CDN integrates directly with actual resources. It's really easy to integrate or add resources, whether through our API management or other methods. I recommend integrating the value service by switching from Azure to another CDN provider to deliver content to the final user. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

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Windows Azure CDN mindshare

As of February 2025, the mindshare of Windows Azure CDN in the CDN category stands at 3.1%, up from 2.3% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"I like that CDN offers a routing feature."
"The geolocation feature is very important because many colleagues travel worldwide and need to access information from anywhere. The product has improved security."
"One of the tool's best features is its ability to handle edge cases. For instance, we encountered a situation where we needed to remove certain files from public access. The solution offered a purge feature that allowed us to remove these files. This feature ensured that the files were deleted from all edge servers. Subsequently, we were able to upload new versions of the files."

Room for Improvement

"Azure is continuously improving its CDN but the documentation should be up-to-date."
"Windows Azure CDN should lower its prices."
"I believe Windows Azure CDN can improve monitoring and measuring overall end-user performance. Providing monitoring tools or agents that can be integrated into our pages would be highly beneficial. Setting up a custom domain with Windows Azure CDN involves proving domain ownership, which can take some time. The process is relatively straightforward if your DNS or domain registrar is already integrated with Microsoft. However, the verification process may be more time-consuming if you use a different service provider."

Pricing

"The pricing of the solution depends on usage and varies based on the company's needs. If you want additional features like advanced logging, it will be pricier. However, it could be cheaper if you don't need those features. It all depends on the resources and requirements."
"The tool's pricing is cheap."
"The pricing is extremely high, almost 9 out of 10."

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