Azure Front Door vs. SuperLumin

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Front Door
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Azure Front Door is a cloud content delivery network (CDN) service that helps users deliver high performance, scalability, and a secure user experiences for content and applications. It includes a customizable rules engine for advanced routing capabilities. It boasts instant scalability with global HTTP load balancing and failover.
$35
per month
SuperLumin
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
SuperLumin provides a solution to mitigate bandwidth restraints, improve user experience and streamline delivery of high volumes of rich media content. SuperLumin supports customized content delivery rules with defined policies at a granular level to achieve performance. From edge caching at PoP or on-premise servers, the vendor states SuperLumin’s module platform is flexible enough to accommodate any scenario for greatest user experience.N/A
Pricing
Azure Front DoorSuperLumin
Editions & Modules
Standard
$35
per month
Premium
$330
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure Front DoorSuperLumin
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsBase fees (Billed hourly and only for number of hours used)​
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Azure Front DoorSuperLumin
Small Businesses
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Score 8.7 out of 10
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 8.7 out of 10
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Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises
Amazon CloudFront
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Score 7.3 out of 10
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Score 7.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure Front DoorSuperLumin
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure Front DoorSuperLumin
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Azure Front Door is very easy and fast to set up and implement, if you are looking for an easy solution that is secure and reliable, Front Door does all that and can be configured in a few hours. AFD is a CDN with WAF, accordingly, it is well suited for any CDN Scenario, other providers such as Akamai or Verizon have a more expensive base price and are harder to manage/configure, Front Door is simple, easy, and provides what's needed when it comes to Web App Security. If you have multiple data centers, have apps in different regions, or targeting a global audience, AFD is an excellent option to get up to speed quickly. If you are looking for more features and capabilities, or planning a very complex setup, Front Door might be sufficient, but other specialized provides such as Imperva, Cloudflare or Akamai are generally a bit more advanced (but harder to set up and maintain). It always depends on the scenario, but for us, Front Door was an excellent option and served us very well with no issues.
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SuperLumin
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Content delivery across all continents
  • Web & media acceleration
  • Web application firewall
  • Backend geo-availability
  • Reporting & access metrics
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SuperLumin
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Better control over origin caching
  • Hierarchal Management UI instead of distributed management
  • TLS & Cipher Control
  • Faster publishing or change updates
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SuperLumin
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
It's generally hard to compare CDNs, each has its features, POP locations, latency, and availability. We have used many other CDNs, including Akamai, Verizon, and Cloudflare. They are all great, but each has its own advantages/disadvantages. From our perspective, all other providers were much harder to configure and maintain and their overall cost was higher than AFD. For example, Verizon was great, performance was excellent, but reporting/logging was not up to our expectations, and we had many issues with its Rules Engine. AFD is great for delivering your web apps globally quickly and easily, the cost is reasonable and comes with very little operational overhead, the logging and reporting capabilities are very good, additionally, its integration with Azure Cloud Services gives it an advantage over other competitors.
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SuperLumin
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • AFD implementation was approx. 80% cheaper than other providers, from initiation to operation.
  • It allowed us to minimize backend resources size/processing power, taking all the load from client requests, cutting tens of thousands of dollars monthly on compute, memory, and network bandwidth.
  • Overall, the ROI of AFD is very quick, it is not an expensive solution, therefore, its ROI goals are easy to calculate and achieve, our overall ROI exceeded 300%.
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SuperLumin
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