We performed a comparison between Akamai and Imperva DDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two CDN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is very sustainable and flexible."
"This solution can be used for web , video and media caching and streaming."
"The most valuable feature of Akamai is its ease of use and simple integration. Additionally, the solution has new aspects added to it regularly."
"The worldwide reach of the Akamai CDN is one of the key values of this CDN and the agreements worldwide that they keep running."
"The solution's technical support is very good...The installation phase of Akamai was easy."
"The solution's most valuable feature is that it has been quite helpful in our company, especially when it comes to applications needing updates frequently."
"If an attacker conducts an attack, we can check what query he is running and whether he wants to see our password or any other files."
"It's a scalable and reliable solution."
"They're quite easy to install and quite easy to set up. Clients really like that. Especially when you're dealing with the cloud, it's really easy."
"The most valuable features are DDoS protection."
"We use Imperva DDoS to stop DDoS attacks and reduce the amount of unwanted queries against web services or web scraping."
"Incapsula takes care of the CDN infrastructure and bandwidth volume, providing several enterprise "load balancing" features."
"On the real time, you can see live traffic, which is flowing into our website."
"Setup was straightforward, very simple. I only entered the domain and Incapsula returned the DNS data that I needed to change for the protection to be configured."
"An improvement has been to our website: It increases the speed of our response, the capacity of the site, and optimizes the bandwidth."
"It blocks all types of attacks."
"While it's great for solutions with high scalability, like global e-commerce, it's not really built for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). It has too many options and can be complex for SMBs to utilize."
"When we open tickets, we have a delay in response times."
"Caching strategy is an area with certain shortcomings in the solution where improvements are required."
"Their support is very slow. If you file a support ticket, it takes a long time before it gets resolved."
"Akamai could improve by providing its own cloud services. We have to use third-party cloud services at this time, such as Amazon AWS. The offering becomes a lot easier for an SMB if everything was in one single platform to be used for the services."
"I would like to see improvements in the security aspect. The web application firewall needs to be enhanced and offers more customization options."
"I'd like to see more Web 3.0 and IoT solutions."
"Akamai should improve its integrations."
"The solution needs to improve Integration with third parties for their on-prem deployment models. The integration is not that good yet."
"Imperva DDoS does not provide version control."
"The rules surrounding the making of web applications could be improved."
"The salespeople tend to exaggerate its capabilities, which can cost you money if you don't verify the information."
"We would like them to hire people in Sweden because it's quite hard when people are sitting in the UK or Belgium because some of the customers really want them to be local."
"I miss being able to integrate the dashboard with other BI tools we are using. We have to export and import data to be able to present it, and doing so is a lot of work."
"It's quite expensive."
"It would be better if we were able to manage and apply changes to multiple websites/web applications, and search WAF logs for multiple websites, via the Incapsula dashboard."
Akamai is ranked 3rd in CDN with 18 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 5th in CDN with 74 reviews. Akamai is rated 9.0, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Akamai writes "Available worldwide with over 300,000 servers globally for content delivery". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva DDoS writes "I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions". Akamai is most compared with Cloudflare, Azure Front Door, Amazon CloudFront, Fastly and AWS Global Accelerator, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro, AWS WAF and Fastly. See our Akamai vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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