Akamai Reviews

My company uses Akamai as a CDN tool and for cloud security.

The most valuable features of the solution are the platform, deployment or infrastructure, and overall features it provides.

I can't point out any downsides of Akamai since it is presently one of the best solutions in the market.

In our company, we are good with how the solution works for us since we continuously use it to improve our processes.

New features will keep getting added to the product as the needs of businesses or organizations grow, making it a never-ending process.

The fact that it is an expensive product is its only shortcoming. The pricing of the product can be made better.

I have been using Akamai for five years. My company is a customer of Akamai.

It is a stable solution.

It is an easily scalable solution.

Akamai is a customer-facing product for my company, and we are a large-sized company.

The solution's technical support is very good. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten.

Positive

The installation phase of Akamai was easy.

Akamai is a SaaS cloud-based solution.

It takes around ten to fifteen minutes to deploy the solution.

The number of people required for the deployment phase of the product varies since it depends on the size of an organization. Smaller organizations would need one or two people for the deployment, while the bigger ones would need more people.

It is an expensive product. The licensing costs for the solution are based on the usage. If we need premium support, we need to buy it from Akamai.

My company does not have to get involved in the maintenance of the product since it is a cloud-based solution.

Akamai is a highly reliable platform.

It is a very good solution offering unique features to users. The scaling capabilities of Akamai platform are its best feature that nobody in the market can match or offer.

I rate the overall solution a ten out of ten.

We're a media site, so we use Akamai for content delivery and streaming. 
It's spread across multiple departments. We're using several Akamai tools, including Property Manager, Cloud Identity, Bot Manager Premium, the CDN, and AMD for video streaming. 

Akamai provides low-latency throughput.

I'd like to see more Web 3.0 and IoT solutions. 

Our organization has been using Akamai for three or four years. I took over the head engineering position a year and a half ago.

Akamai is quite stable. 

Akamai is scalable. Definitely, yeah.

Akamai support is excellent. I rate them nine out of 10 because they have great debugging tools, and they're highly competent. We have their premium partnership, so their engineers are proactive and responsive whenever we have issues. It's pretty smooth.

Positive

The company switched to Akamai before I joined, but there were two or three solutions before that. Standardization was important for them because it's a media organization. They wanted one solution, so they put everything into Akamai.

Akamai was deployed before I joined, but we work with the Akamai product team closely. When they release a new product, we try to see if it fits. You only need a lean staff to deploy and maintain Akamai. We use three staff members to manage Akamai.

We handle everything with our in-house team, but we work closely with Akamai engineers.

There are two things: value for the money and return on investment. We haven't calculated the return on investment, but the value for the price we are paying is definitely there.

We've been using Akamai for the last two or three years, so we think we are getting value for the money. 

I rate Akamai eight out of 10. At end of the day there, I defer to Gartner's Magic Quadrant. They're one of the premium leaders on the OTT side, and we are a media organization. They're right on top of the Gartner report, so that's a good product. 

Our primary use cases are for content delivery for all kinds of scenarios, video streaming, load balancing, caching, image managing, web application firewall, bot management and micro-segmentation. 

We can offload a lot of traffic to Akamai and it's one of the best web application firewalls out there in the market.

The user console is quite overloaded, sometimes it's hard to find your way around.

With regards to additional features, Akamai continues to buy other companies and integrate their services into their product. It's kind of like a big bouquet of solutions and it would be good to see this continue in the future. From experience, sometimes you have different user consoles from the same supplier and that makes it hard to keep an overview and have reporting of everything in one place. 

I have been working with Akamai for approximately 20 years.

Akamai has been providing this service for 20 years and they have never had a substantial outage, they even have some products that have an uptime of over 20 years, the stability is very good. 

The Akamai content delivery service is available worldwide with over 300,000 servers globally, it's a very scalable solution. 

The Akamai technical support is pretty fast and support is knowledgeable. 

With regards to the setup of the product, depending on which use case it can be easy or a little more complex. Setting up caching and DNS is very straightforward, but Bot manager is more complicated. 

As this is a high end product, it's quite high in price, but it's at a similar level to competitors, Amazon and Google. 

The main competitor at this moment in time is CloudFlare. CloudFlare is focusing on small businesses and has an aggressive pricing structure. But for larger enterprises, Akamai is our preference and we have been very successful in reselling the product. 

For companies who wish to implement Akamai I would advise doing this through a partner like us, we have the expertise and knowledge of different solutions and setup's, and have compared other similar solutions. Some solutions could use different products like CloudFlare, so a client should look for an independent integrator instead of going direct with a vendor. 

Our website is very high in content, and for faster delivery to the end user, we are using their Akamai. The largest network is owned by them. Akamai runs on any company's cloud infrastructure.

The most valuable feature of Akamai is its ease of use and simple integration. Additionally, the solution has new aspects added to it regularly.

Akamai could improve by providing its own cloud services. We have to use third-party cloud services at this time, such as Amazon AWS. The offering becomes a lot easier for an SMB if everything was in one single platform to be used for the services.

I have been using Akamai for approximately three years.

Akamai is stable.

The scalability of Akamai is good.

The solution is suitable for any sized organization.

The support from Akamai is fantastic. They have one of the best supports available. You have assigned engineers targeting specific issues. The use of the support services is very easy.

Positive

Akamai was simple to implement and set up.

The solution is not user-based. It's content-based. The number of GBs of transaction.

I rate the initial setup of Akamai a four out of five.

The price of Akamai could be less expensive.

I rate the price of Akamai a two out of five.

When comparing Akamai to other solutions they have a lot of bundled solutions. If you go to their competition, such as Amazon AWS, it would have a WAF, but it will not have a bot manager. If you use Cloudflare, the ease of integration is not as good as Akamai's. I have found most features are better in Akamai.

Akamai is the market leader in its field of consultation and productivity.

I rate Akamai a nine out of ten.

We monitor all the traffic which is coming from the Internet to our environment through the Akamai CDN.

It provides good security.

I cannot disclose specific features, but overall, it's a good product.

Costing-wise and integration with other tools need improvement, especially API security.

We have used the solution for a long time.

I rate the stability at seven out of ten. There are occasional downtimes, but not very frequent.

I rate the scalability at eight out of ten. It's very good.

The initial setup is simple, especially for SaaS solutions. We use a hybrid model with both on-premises and SaaS.

There are many CDN providers in the market, but I do not want to compare Akamai with them.

I recommend the product to other users.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

Akamai is useful for web content delivery in business because it helps improve speed, reliability, and security. Caching content closer to users reduces latency and improves load times. This is especially important for businesses like Azure, as it enhances the user experience and ensures content is delivered efficiently. Additionally, Akamai's security solutions help protect against cyber threats like DDoS attacks.

The most valuable feature in managing web traffic has been the ability to handle vertical scaling effectively. I appreciate the integration with Oracle business, but what stands out are the new capabilities and possibilities within Akamai's products. These enhancements are what I like the most.

One area for improvement with Akamai could be pricing.

Smaller companies may find Akamai less sustainable and scalable compared to larger enterprises.

Deploying Akamai can vary in ease depending on the technical requirements. While it is generally straightforward, some cases may encounter technical difficulties, particularly in complex security setups. The difficulty lies in integrating Akamai's solutions with the specific security needs of the organization.

Companies need to pay for an Akamai license, which can be yearly or monthly. It is not overly expensive but not the cheapest option available.

My experience with Akamai in improving website security has been good. They are well-regarded for their technology, especially in their main area of expertise. However, expanding into other areas is a bit tough because people mainly know them for what they are already famous for. We're working on showing that they are effective in other technologies too.

Akamai's cloud security solutions have positively impacted our organization. While the market perception might not fully reflect their effectiveness, their products are highly regarded. This perception challenge may stem from Akamai's historical approach and the market's existing knowledge about the company. 

Akamai is stable, reliable, and user-friendly, typically delivering optimal performance. However, smaller companies might struggle to grasp the full value, particularly in complex security aspects like micro-segmentation.

For those considering using Akamai, my advice is to engage with others who have experience with the platform. While Akamai is a well-known brand, it is important to recognize that its expertise lies in complex security areas more suited for enterprise-level companies. For smaller businesses entering this market, it is essential to establish Akamai as a trusted name through effective communication and understanding of their specific needs.

The value and benefits of working with Akamai lie in their ability to provide real solutions to the problems they address. They are a strong company with robust products, capable of resolving the specific needs their customers face.

Overall, I would rate Akamai as an eight out of ten.

We use Akamai services to handle the overflow of our own CDN on international deliveries of our own content.

It is complementary used because the reach of our company is solely accountable for the Southern Cone, and a node in the US.

The worldwide reach of the Akamai CDN is one of the key values of this CDN and the agreements worldwide that they keep running.

Local connectivity would be great linked to our own telecom/Cablevision CDN, as we are a key player for Internet access in Argentina for final users of mobile, DSL, cable, and FTTH users. 

Akamai should improve its integrations. 

I have been working with the solution for a couple of months. 

I rate the stability of the solution a ten out of ten. 

Akamai's scalability is good. 

The solution's installation is straightforward and takes less than 30 minutes. 

I did the deployment myself because it was simple. Any first-level engineer can do it. 

I rate the product a ten out of ten.