🆚 Akamai vs. Amazon CloudFront

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Amazon CloudFront is five times more popular than Akamai.
🌎 Amazon CloudFront is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Akamai is more popular in China, the Cayman Islands, and Seychelles.

Akamai

Amazon CloudFront

Type

Content delivery network

About

Akamai is a global content delivery network provider that serves web content, streaming media, and applications through edge infrastructure in more than 130 countries.

It operates over 4,400 edge points of presence and supports a network capacity exceeding 1 petabit per second.

Amazon CloudFront is a highly scalable content delivery network service operated by Amazon Web Services.

It uses over 700 points of presence and 13 regional edge caches, integrates with services like S3, EC2, and Lambda@Edge, offers built-in DDoS protection via AWS Shield, and provides detailed real-time metrics through CloudWatch.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Website

akamai.com #18,159

aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/

Pricing

Data Transfer Tier 1$0.049/GB

Data Transfer Tier 2$0.045/GB

Free tier ✔️1 TB of data transfer out per month

Data transfer out (per month)Next 9TB$0.085+/GB
Next 40TB$0.080+/GB
Next 100TB$0.060+/GB
Next 350TB$0.040+/GB

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Amazon CloudFront CDN is 5 times more popular than Akamai.

Total websites

Market share

CDN

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Amazon CloudFront is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom, while Akamai is more popular in China, the Cayman Islands, and Seychelles.

United States

Japan

United Kingdom

Brazil

Germany

Australia

France

Canada

India

Netherlands

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in the Cayman Islands in the CDN category.
🥈 Second most popular in Seychelles in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in China in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in Taiwan in the CDN category.

🥇 Most popular in Japan in the CDN category.
🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the CDN category.
🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the CDN category.
🥈 Second most popular in Brazil in the CDN category.
🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the CDN category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Amazon CloudFront is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Akamai is more commonly used on motor vehicles and games sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Internet Services

Entertainment

Education/Reference

Sports

Fashion/Beauty

Travel

General News