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Azure CDN

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What is Azure CDN?

Microsoft offers a content delivery network, Azure CDN.

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Azure CDN - A Recommended Content Delivery Network

Bilal SB
Director of Social Media Marketing in Customer Service at RealBSG (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

One of our major problems was quickly delivering our website content to end users in different regions. After researching, we found Azure CDN, which helped us with solving this problem by caching our website content on various servers globally. Additionally, they have been helping us with handling more concurrent users.

Pros

  • Web Caching
  • Scalability
  • Website Security Related Functions

Cons

  • It should add more security features.

Return on Investment

  • Faster Website Loading
  • More Scalability

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Cloudflare, KeyCDN and Fastly Edge Cloud Platform

Other Software Used

Cloudflare

This is a platform that provides a better work balance to my entire work operation

Incentivized
Guillermo DeVitoView profile
Technical Support Engineer in Information Technology at Mphasis (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This is a platform that provides a better work balance to my entire work operation, Azure CDN is created to take advantage of digital benefits and implement them in the business environment to be a faster path to solutions and better manage the flow and loads of work, the advantages for each of the users increases considerably when this software reinforces each of the skills and mastery of the files and documents that are handled by this means.

Pros

  • This problem is a space that provides the administrative capacity to each of its users to have a quality and one hundred percent professional operational management.
  • Azure CDN allows you to have a better management of all your documents as well as preserve them in the best way in its cloud-based storage support.

Cons

  • The large number of options and shortcuts that this program shows and manifests requires prior training for new and interested users.
  • There are some small bugs in the interface to make clear the function of each tool, this aspect can be improved in a future update.

Most Important Features

  • All the services that this program provides are each a better way to approach my work and each of the projects in the cloud, this program will simplify every detail.
  • There are many activities that I can do on the web with this program, all with the aim of providing a better solution and developing my work within the company.
  • Azure CDN is an enormous support that I have for managing each of my documents, thanks to the help of this program I have control at all times due to the variety of reports that I execute with this platform.

Return on Investment

  • One of the main scenarios that I take advantage of this program is the wide and extensive storage space that allows me to archive multiple digital jobs and relevant company information for future activities.
  • The applications that I test in the cloud with the help of Azure CDN are a huge contribution to the development of my work and the interaction I have with my business relationships abroad.
  • Azure CDN has helped me for a long time to have a better infrastructure of myself and quality in my administrative and social department in the company.

Other Software Used

Google Ad Manager, Adobe Analytics, CDNetworks Cloud DNS

A reliable CDN from Microsoft that multiplies your speed and security!

Incentivized
Ali KazempourView profile
Senior Professional Services Consultant Manager in Information Technology at AZEREX LLC. (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Easy to use and customizable settings.
  • You pay according to your resources usage.
  • High speed and security CDN with great support team.

Cons

  • Tutorials,‌ guides in English should be more easy to understand.
  • Prices can be lower.

Return on Investment

  • Save costs.
  • Increase security.

Alternatives Considered

AWS Cloud9 and Google Cloud CDN

Other Software Used

Google Cloud CDN, Amazon CloudFront

Great Platform to Develop Apps and Websites

Incentivized
Maria CarverView profile
Production Specialist in Engineering at The Dow Chemical Company (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Developing apps and websites.
  • Advanced analytics.

Cons

  • Pricing.
  • New infrastructure cost could be minimized.

Return on Investment

  • Positive impact as it helps to generate value out of data.
  • Easy to develop apps and websites like never before.

Other Software Used

CGI Exploration2Revenue (X2R), Petrel E&P, MATLAB

Azure CDN: Global Delivery & Awesome Uptime

Incentivized
Erik RalstonView profile
Chief Architect in Information Technology at LiveTiles (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Global reach - we have customers around the world and they all get excellent performance.
  • Global availability - we've never had down time on Azure CDN.
  • Easy management - you can do everything easily from the portal connecting things to a storage container and from there it's zero management except purging on new content.

Cons

  • For the longest time they didn't have a robust SDK. They have one now, but it could be better.
  • The different flavors of Azure CDN (Akamai, Verizon, etc) have different costs, but not well differentiated features. Might be confusing to new users.
  • I'm not overly familiar with it, but AWS does have a programmability in their CDN offering (Lambda @ Edge) and Azure doesn't seem to have an equivalent (Azure Functions is region-specific).

Return on Investment

  • Performance improvements - On first change to Azure CDN, we had a great bump in page load times in our app.
  • Evergreen Deployment - Simplified updating code in our apps by putting it all in one place.

Alternatives Considered

Amazon CloudFront and CloudFlare

Other Software Used

Azure Search, Microsoft Azure