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Akamai Ion Reviews

Vendor: Akamai
3.8 out of 5
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What is Akamai Ion?

Ion, Akamai’s flagship performance solution, is a suite of intelligent performance optimizations and controls that helps deliver superior web, iOS, and Android app experiences. Built on the SLA-backed availability of the globally distributed Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform, Ion continuously monitors real user behavior — applying best-practice performance optimizations automatically — and adapting in real time to content, user behavior, and connectivity changes.

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Akamai Ion is the #14 ranked solution in top Application Delivery Controllers. PeerSpot users give Akamai Ion an average rating of 7.6 out of 10. Akamai Ion is most commonly compared to Microsoft Azure Application Gateway: Akamai Ion vs Microsoft Azure Application Gateway.
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Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
March 2025
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Akamai Ion mindshare

As of March 2025, the mindshare of Akamai Ion in the Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) category stands at 0.6%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

  • "The most valuable feature is bot management."
  • "Akamai is easy to use and very effective."

Room for Improvement

  • "Log management should display data for more than two months."
  • "The product must provide more flexibility."

Pricing

  • "The tool is expensive."
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HarshBhardiya - PeerSpot user
SOC Engineer at Just Dial Limited
Verified user of Akamai Ion
Oct 15, 2024
Reliable bot management with valuable traffic analytics and good delivery configuration

Pros

"The most valuable feature is bot management. "

Cons

"Log management should display data for more than two months."

What is our primary use case?

We are using Akamai Ion primarily for CDN services. It is more about delivery configuration, and for security, we use Akamai WAF security controls and Botman.

How has it helped my organization?

Akamai Ion helps protect us from DOS, SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and scraping tools. Real-time analytics are very helpful for analyzing traffic or fetching logs for certain IPs. It has a single interface where I can do everything, control everything, and see everything, reducing hassle.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Neha Shakyawar - PeerSpot user
Head of Information at a leisure / travel company with 51-200 employees
Verified user of Akamai Ion
Feb 24, 2024
Helps optimize the content delivery network, but doesn’t provide much flexibility

Pros

"Akamai is easy to use and very effective."

Cons

"The product must provide more flexibility."

What is our primary use case?

The solution helps us optimize the content delivery network. It's one of the oldest companies. It improves the overall user experience. It has the biggest CDN.

How has it helped my organization?

We ensure that all our production domains are rooted in Akamai to improve the customer experience by shortening the lag time. We ensure that all our static content is also available for faster delivery and stored at Akamai. We also use NetStorage.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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