Alibaba Cloud CDN vs. Azure CDN

Alibaba Cloud CDN is well suited for the below scenarios -

• if you want to get started quickly and don't want to go through a lot of settings ups then go for it.
• The documentation is really good.
• The speed and delivery network and billing price ratio is quite good and in some cases better than competitors.

Incentivized

Azure CDN has at hand an infinity of applications and tools to implement in your system and have better control of your data in a clean and secure platform on the web, we recommend this program since the percentage of solutions provided by this program is very high and find a way to make each user's job easier.

Incentivized

• It provides a great documentation to get started with, which makes the life of Devs easy
• The UI and the metrics graphs are beautify crafted, so all the insights can be easily seen when logged into the system
• The product is really really fast, it makes your app fly. It gives the extra boost that you need in scaling up.

Incentivized

• I found the CDN very easy to setup and configure within the Azure Portal.
• Being Azure, there are plenty of free tools that allow you to manage the CDN from a UI that is not the portal. This was especially handy when I trained end users how to manage content within their specific realm.

Incentivized

• Alibaba Cloud CDN doesn't have the automatic SSL attachment to web apps, which can be great if provided.
• A economical and startup friendly billing plan can be added.
• CDN locations needs to be increased.

Incentivized

• Tough learning curve--you have to be comfortable with the Azure Cloud logic and UI to use it easily
• Special or uncommon use cases' pricing can be hard to forecast/follow
• Can be expensive for simple use cases

Incentivized

I give it 9/10 rating because it solved my problem by Caching my website content on global servers to load faster.

Great support from the team whenever we're stuck. Very proactive in resolving issues and also making changes as per the requirements of the organization.

Incentivized

Alibaba Cloud CDN is very cost-efficient and faster in some cases than the competitors. It also provides the latest documentation, so you don't have to go through hundred of pages of decade-old documentation like some of the competitors. Along with that they provides state of the art analytics and insights platform which makes the decision making process smooth.

Incentivized

More user friendly and it’s so easy to learn, the prices may be close to each other, but the service is excellent.

Incentivized

• Alibaba Cloud CDN has boosted our web performance by 300X which ensured more user to come to our platform
• Addition of their CDN also guaranteed Zero downtime in our app.
• Their faster issue resolving and great support engineers are always helping us whenever there's a issue.

Incentivized

• Azure CDN reduced origin instance load by removing the need to constantly serve large numbers of static files, meaning applications can be deployed with smaller/fewer instances.
• Azure CDN reduces apparent load times to customers by serving cached files out of POPs in the local region of those clients, instead of requiring those clients to make multiple, lengthy requests through to the origin servers.

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