Akamai App & API Protector vs. Azure DDoS Protection

Akamai App & API Protector

14 Reviews and Ratings

Azure DDoS Protection

1 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Akamai App & API Protector	Score8 out of 10	N/A	Akamai Akamai App & API Protector offers protection for websites, web applications and APIs. An evolution of Kona Site Defender, a web application security platform designed to protect web and mobile assets from targeted web application attacks and DDoS attacks while improving performance.	N/A
Azure DDoS Protection	Score9 out of 10	N/A	Backed by the Microsoft global network, Azure DDoS Protection brings DDoS mitigation capacity to every Azure region. Combined with application design best practices, it provides enhanced DDoS mitigation features to defend against DDoS attacks.	$2,944 per month

Pricing

Akamai App & API Protector

Azure DDoS Protection

No answers on this topic

Overage charges (more than 100 public IP resources): $29.50
per month per resource
Monthly charge per public IP resource protected: $199
per month
Monthly charge (includes protection for 100 public IP resources): 2,944
per month

Pricing Offerings
Akamai App & API Protector	Azure DDoS Protection
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Best Alternatives
	Akamai App & API Protector	Azure DDoS Protection
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	Cloudflare Score8.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF Score9.3 out of 10	Cloudflare Score8.8 out of 10
Enterprises	F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF Score9.3 out of 10	No answers on this topic
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Akamai App & API Protector	Azure DDoS Protection
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Akamai App & API Protector	Azure DDoS Protection
Likelihood to Recommend	Akamai Akamai Kona Site Defender KSD, works fine for any website or mobile application (Native/JDK), it can be used as a WAF, a rate limiting tool, or a bot management tool all in one, plus you will get all the benefits of the Akamai CDN (Content distribution network) as well Incentivized Randy Varela Offensive Security Engineer Lead Read full review	Microsoft We have mostly used this for the migrations of applications to the cloud. It also includes strategic hybrid cloud arrangements. The kind of support and security it provides along with a very well and strategically placed process, it makes the first choice for not only us but any other competitors of ours as well Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Pros	Akamai Web Security Bot managment Rate Control Incentivized Randy Varela Offensive Security Engineer Lead Read full review	Microsoft No answers on this topic
Cons	Akamai Custom rules might be hard to configure For some cases you will need to contact the Akamai team to adjust the backend Interface might feel laggy if used in a non-powerful PC Incentivized Randy Varela Offensive Security Engineer Lead Read full review	Microsoft No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Akamai Fair Security investment An attack impact would be higher Support contract is not cheap Incentivized Randy Varela Offensive Security Engineer Lead Read full review	Microsoft No answers on this topic
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