Please make sure you sign up for our weekly newsletter. In this newsletter, we continue with Part 2, and discuss how CDNs can counter the threat posed by an Amazon DDoS Mitigation offering that spans 24 scrubbing centers, 12Tbps of
Here she comes, Amazon is going to bring fury to the DDoS Mitigation market, and turn it upside down. By default, since Akamai is one of the largest providers in the world of DDoS protection, they will feel first impact.
Although there are 40+ CDNs in a very competitive industry, no two CDNs are identical. When we look deep inside each CDN, their DNA is vastly different. Akamai, Verizon, Level 3, Netflix, Comcast, Telefonica, Limelight, Yottaa, ChinaCache, Instart Logic, MaxCDN,
Netflix and Amazon have a very complicated relationship. It’s a marriage of economic convenience, with lots of love and hate thrown in there. Jeff Bezos and Reed Hasting are the stuff of legends, but how long will this friendship last?
Is Amazon really gunning for Akamai? According to an Oppenheimer analyst, possibly. Akamai’s stock price has been trending upward for the last week, and its stock price closed at $71/share on Friday, valuing them at $12.7B. At the other end,
Google is in the wireless business, Amazon in the semiconductor business, and Akamai in the Cyber Security business. What is the difference between the three? Google and Amazon have ventured outside of their comfort zone, investing into new sectors of
When Amazon came out with CloudFront, many in CDN industry were nervous, including Akamai. It was the unknown that we feared, because CloudFront brought a whole new low-cost structure into the picture. The impact was immediate, and pricing for CDN
Amazon is what may be referred to as “co-opetition”, in that they cooperate with their vendors and customers at first, then they build competing business models. Akamai was their primary CDN at one time, and then they started CloudFront. Netflix
Azure CDN, Akamai, EdgeCast, CloudFlare, Sitelock, Zenedge, Level 3, Distil Networks, Fireblade, F5 Networks, Radware, and dozens more offer DDoS Mitigation Services. The DDoS services include everything from the basic Layer 3/4 protection, to advanced protection against multi-vector attacks across
Level 3 has done a decent job offering network based security for the last several years. At one time, they resold Prolexic DDoS Mitigation Services to its large customer base. However, with Akamai acquiring Prolexic, that relationship is certain to
The Department of Homeland Security National Cyber Security Division (NIST) gives the Shellshock bug a score of 10 based on the “Common Vulnerability Scoring System Version 2 Calculator”. The score basically measures the severity of a security vulnerability. The score
Recently, I had conversation with the Mirror Image executive team, and we discussed the CDN state of the union, starting from the feature set, to the vision, value proposition and key differentiators. To be honest, I dismissed Mirror Image as
It’s been fairly quiet in the land of Cloudfront and Internap. While AWS continues to push the envelope in the cloud computing game, it’s in cruise control when it comes to its CDN, along with Internap. As an outsider to
Amazon Cloudfront and Level 3 are the only two Non Pure-play CDNs in the market today, with Verizon DMS following closely behind. Both are very successful catering to a specific clientele, offering some services that other CDNs don’t, including Akamai.
