🆚 Akamai Cloud vs. Microsoft Azure

📈 Microsoft Azure is slightly more popular than Akamai Cloud.
🌎 Microsoft Azure is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 Akamai Cloud is more popular in Japan, India, and Indonesia.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Akamai Cloud

Microsoft Azure

Type

Cloud service provider

About

Akamai Cloud is a distributed cloud and edge platform that delivers compute, security, and content delivery services using Akamai's globally distributed network.

It combines edge and core compute based on Akamai Cloud Compute, content delivery from over 4,000 edge locations across more than 130 countries, object and block storage, and integrated security services, including DDoS mitigation, a web application firewall, and bot management.

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform that provides a broad range of on-demand services for building, deploying, and managing applications, infrastructure, and data across global Microsoft data centers.

It offers more than 200 cloud products and services, including scalable virtual machines, managed databases, serverless computing, object storage, analytics, identity and access management, and AI and machine learning tools.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Redmond, Washington, United States

Website

akamai.com/cloud #18,159

azure.microsoft.com

Pricing

Free version ❌

Compute Shared CPU $5+/month
Dedicated CPU $36+/month

GPU plans RTX 4000 $350+/month
Quadro RTX 6000 $1,000+/month

Kubernetes
(3 nodes) Shared CPU $36+/month
Dedicated CPU $108+/month

MySQL/PostgreSQL Shared CPU $16+/month
Dedicated CPU $68+/month

Free tier ✔️ 180,000 vCPU seconds for container apps + 1M Function requests + 100 GB of outbound data transfer + 1,000 Cosmos DB request units per-second provisioned throughput with 25 GB storage + 100,000 vCore seconds of SQL database serverless usage with 32 GB of storage per month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Microsoft Azure cloud service is 1.1 times more popular than Akamai Cloud.

Total websites

Market share

Cloud Services

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Microsoft Azure is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Akamai Cloud is more popular in Japan, India, and Indonesia.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Germany

Netherlands

Japan

Canada

Brazil

Sweden

France

Awards

🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the Cloud Services category.
🥉 Third most popular in Indonesia in the Cloud Services category.
🥉 Third most popular in Taiwan in the Cloud Services category.
🥉 Third most popular in Korea in the Cloud Services category.
🥉 Third most popular in Vietnam in the Cloud Services category.

🥈 Second most popular in Denmark in the Cloud Services category.
🥈 Second most popular in Turkey in the Cloud Services category.
🥈 Second most popular in Slovenia in the Cloud Services category.
🥈 Second most popular in Qatar in the Cloud Services category.
🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Cloud Services category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Microsoft Azure is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Akamai Cloud is more commonly used on travel, entertainment, and Internet services sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Finance/Banking

Travel

Health

Software/Hardware

Entertainment

Fashion/Beauty

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#14

#15

#18