🆚 Akamai Connected Cloud vs. Microsoft Azure

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

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

Akamai Connected Cloud

Microsoft Azure

Type

Cloud service

About

Akamai Connected 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, object and block storage, content delivery from over 4,000 edge locations across more than 130 countries, 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 #18,159

azure.microsoft.com

Pricing

Free version ❌

ComputeShared CPU$5+/month
Dedicated CPU$36+/month

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

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

MySQL/PostgreSQLShared 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.

Akamai Connected Cloud technology is 1.1 times more popular than Microsoft Azure.

Total websites

Market share

Cloud Services

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

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

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Germany

Netherlands

Canada

Japan

India

France

Brazil

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in Seychelles in the Cloud Services category.
🥉 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.

🥈 Second most popular in Denmark in the Cloud Services category.
🥈 Second most popular in Norway 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.
🥉 Third most popular in Australia in the Cloud Services category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Akamai Connected Cloud is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, travel, and fashion and beauty, while Microsoft Azure is more commonly used on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Finance/Banking

Health

Travel

Fashion/Beauty

Software/Hardware

Entertainment