Akamai Reviews

For Akamai, it is definitely one of the best tools out there. However, there are challenges with how their approach is designed for large enterprises.

While it's great for solutions with high scalability, like global e-commerce, it's not really built for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). It has too many options and can be complex for SMBs to utilize.

That's the biggest challenge we faced when migrating to Akamai from other solutions, like Cloudflare. It can be difficult to migrate between platforms.

Due to its great features but high activation thresholds. So, while it's a powerful tool, it has limitations for some implementations.

It was difficult to migrate from and to Akamai. It is challenging when we are building a website.

My company uses Akamai to get applications, especially static ones.

The solution's most valuable feature is that it has been quite helpful in our company, especially when it comes to applications needing updates frequently. The CDN part of the solution helps us improve the agent's download and installation.

My company uses Akamai for all our web applications since it minimizes attacks, monitors traffic, and filters and blocks malicious emails.

Akamai is a good threat intelligence platform. Akamai uses the latest technologies like machine learning, AI, and rule-based protection. The solution also blocks all malicious emails.

The product can be used for content distribution and performance improvements.

Akamai has a very established network of PoPs globally. The product is very strong when it comes to distribution and security. Akamai is a well-established and trusted partner in security and bad bot management.

The purpose is to use Akamai as a CDN solution to distribute all the static content we have on our website and all the static pages worldwide. We have about 50 branches around the world, and this enhances the accessibility of our website.

All the policies of the CDNs are very beneficial. You can block all geolocations or any access attacks. It depends on what you need to configure because there are a lot of definitions, options, and features that you can configure on the Akamai CDN platform. It's beneficial since it's one of the best solutions in the world for CDN. It fits our needs.

Our contract supports a very low SLA. We have not encountered challenges from downtime since we have a contract that supports our SLA. We have scalability in the contract as well. When we surpass traffic limits, we can scale and be flexible with the resources we need.

We use Akamai to monitor all incoming and outgoing traffic. If we see malicious traffic or other activities from an IP, we block that IP.

We can use Akamai to see each segment and data packet from the firewall, whether it is going on or what they are trying to search in our environment. We can also use the solution to block the IPs. If an attacker conducts an attack, we can check what query he is running and whether he wants to see our password or any other files.

So one of our main use cases is website hosting. It can be the website primarily targeted at a specific demographic or global. That's one use case. 

Another use case is providing an out-of-the-box solution for video streaming. If your business is primarily focused on live video streaming, Akamai might be the right solution for you. Other content delivery network (CDN) solutions, like Virtual Sand, do not support video streaming. That's the main reason for choosing Akamai. 

Additionally, Akamai is leveraged by many Fortune 500 companies. If there's an outage or any issues, you don't need to worry about the service level agreement (SLA) because most of your competitors and top-level business companies also rely on Akamai.