🆚 Akamai Cloud vs. Rackspace

Statistics for Rackspace are still being collected and do not yet reflect its full market share.

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.

Rackspace Technology is a US-based cloud platform provider that operates multitenant, OpenStack-based, and managed Kubernetes services across private, hybrid, and public clouds.

Its platforms include Rackspace Cloud on VMware Cloud Foundation, OpenStack Flex, Rackspace Spot managed Kubernetes with auction-based pricing, Enterprise AI Cloud built on AMD GPUs for regulated workloads, and managed services for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Website

akamai.com/cloud #18,159

rackspace.com #21,074

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 version ❌

Compute $0.01+/hour

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Total websites

Market share

Cloud Services

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

United States

United Kingdom

Japan

Germany

Australia

Canada

Italy

Indonesia

India

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.

🔥 19th most popular in the United States in the Cloud Services category.
⬆️ 21st most popular in the United Kingdom in the Cloud Services category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Entertainment

Travel

Finance/Banking

General News

Internet Services

Fashion/Beauty

Blogs/Wiki

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#14

#15

#18

Name

Rank

#139

#162

#430

#957

#2,156