caching - Akamai vs CloudFront -

What are the benefits of using Akamai vs CloudFront ? What I have read, Akamai is more expensive, but there is a big network for their CDN. CloudFront is new at the other end and Amazon also used Akamai for its e-commerce site when CloudFootton was launched in 2008. Was there. It can change since then, so I can not be surprised.

I like CloudFront because my app will be hosted on AWS so that using CloudFront instead of Akamai can have significant benefits. CloudFont also appears to be a better document and their APIs are easily accessible, whereas Akamai is not. I am hoping for pros and cons between choosing Akamai versus CloudFront. thank you in advanced!

Each service is performing differently in different areas. Amazon cloudfruit can be better in the APAC region, while Akamai may be better in south and south of Europe.

Since it is a physical service that relies on the actual position of your POP (Point of Presence) servers, you need to figure out which ones are most of your users, and for that area Select a better service.

Here you can see such comparisons about the CDN performance in different areas:

The main difference between cloudfire and akmai is the number of POP servers. CloudFront is using Super POP approach, which means that very few (edge) locations (See full list by January 2016 - compared to thousands) that Akamai is around the world, this is the reason why CloudFront costs less than Akamai Comes.

It was important to have more POP in the early days of the internet. But as the Internet is evolving around the world, the difference in performance is shrinking.

There is also a benefit for "Super POP" in terms of cache, because there is a better chance of finding an element in the cache, if you have less cache server

If you are hosting the server in EC2, then you will probably get better performance and certainly will be better pricing than Cloudfront. If not, you should check performance and pricing between different providers.

Note that you should not be exclusive, because many large content providers are using many CDNs and not one.