🆚 Akamai vs. Azure Front Door

Type

Content delivery network
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.

Azure Front Door is is a cloud content delivery network service that offers Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Redmond, Washington, United States

Website

Pricing

Data Transfer Tier 1$0.049/GB
Data Transfer Tier 2$0.045/GB
Free version ❌
Standard$35/month
Premium$330/month
Outbound data transfers (first 10TB)$0.083/GB
10–50 TB$0.066/GB
50–150 TB$0.057/GB

Categories

CDN › Rank #4
CDN › Rank #11
Load Balancers › Rank #8

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Akamai CDN is 5 times more popular than Azure Front Door.
Total websites

Market share

CDN

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Akamai is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, while Azure Front Door is more popular in Malta, Brunei Darussalam, and Papua New Guinea.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Australia
Germany
Canada
Netherlands
India
France
Brazil

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Akamai is more popular than Azure Front Door in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Finance/Banking
Travel
Entertainment
General News
Health
Software/Hardware
Motor Vehicles

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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