Azure CDN vs Google Cloud CDN

Overview

Google Cloud CDN

Stacks86

Followers234

Votes3

Azure CDN

Stacks60

Followers92

Votes2

Azure CDN vs Google Cloud CDN: What are the differences?

Developers describe Azure CDN as "A global CDN solution for delivering high-bandwidth content". It lets you reduce load times, save bandwidth, and speed responsiveness—whether you’re developing or managing websites or mobile apps, or encoding and distributing streaming media, gaming software, firmware updates, or IoT endpoints. On the other hand, Google Cloud CDN is detailed as "Low-latency, low-cost content delivery using Google's global network". Google Cloud CDN leverages Google's globally distributed edge caches to accelerate content delivery for websites and applications served out of Google Compute Engine. Cloud CDN lowers network latency, offloads origins, and reduces serving costs. Once you've set up HTTP(S) Load Balancing, simply enable Cloud CDN with a single checkbox.

Azure CDN and Google Cloud CDN can be categorized as "Content Delivery Network" tools.

Some of the features offered by Azure CDN are:

Acceleration Data Transfer
Deep integration
Multiple providers

On the other hand, Google Cloud CDN provides the following key features:

Anycast
Invalidation
HTTP/2

According to the StackShare community, Google Cloud CDN has a broader approval, being mentioned in 14 company stacks & 17 developers stacks; compared to Azure CDN, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

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Google Cloud CDN	Azure CDN
Google Cloud CDN leverages Google's globally distributed edge caches to accelerate content delivery for websites and applications served out of Google Compute Engine. Cloud CDN lowers network latency, offloads origins, and reduces serving costs. Once you've set up HTTP(S) Load Balancing, simply enable Cloud CDN with a single checkbox.	It lets you reduce load times, save bandwidth, and speed responsiveness—whether you’re developing or managing websites or mobile apps, or encoding and distributing streaming media, gaming software, firmware updates, or IoT endpoints.
Anycast;Invalidation;HTTP/2;HTTPS; Logging; Origins	Acceleration Data Transfer ; Deep integration; Multiple providers; Advanced analytics
Statistics
Stacks 86	Stacks 60
Followers 234	Followers 92
Votes 3	Votes 2
Pros & Cons
Pros 3 Extremely Fast Cons 2 Very expensive not for newbies	Pros 2 Low Latency
Integrations
Stackdriver Google App Engine Google Compute Engine	WordPress Drupal

What are some alternatives to Google Cloud CDN, Azure CDN?

CloudFlare

Cloudflare speeds up and protects millions of websites, APIs, SaaS services, and other properties connected to the Internet.

Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront can be used to deliver your entire website, including dynamic, static, streaming, and interactive content using a global network of edge locations. Requests for your content are automatically routed to the nearest edge location, so content is delivered with the best possible performance.

KeyCDN

KeyCDN offers super fast and secure content delivery for minimal loading time. In addition to the CDN, it also offers advanced image processing and many other features such as live logs and Let's Encrypt SSL.

Fastly

Fastly's real-time content delivery network gives you total control over your content, unprecedented access to performance analytics, and the ability to instantly update content in 150 milliseconds.

MaxCDN

The MaxCDN Content Delivery Network efficiently delivers your site’s static file through hundreds of servers instead of slogging through a single host. This "smart route" technology distributes your content to your visitors via the city closest to them.

jsDelivr

jsDelivr is a free CDN for open source developers, with advanced features for javascript projects with access to NPM and Github It uses multiple CDN providers, resulting in the best possible uptime and performance.

Moovweb XDN

All-in-one platform to develop, deploy, preview, experiment on, monitor, and run your frontend.

Limelight CDN

Whether it’s your website, mobile applications, videos, music, software, games, or APIs, your content needs to reach customers quickly, reliably, and securely. It provides the capacity, coverage, and performance to cost-effectively deliver a better experience for you and your customers.

cdnjs

Everyone loves the Google CDN? Even Microsoft runs their own CDN. The problem is, they only host the most popular libraries. We host it all - JavaScript, CSS, SWF, images, etc! Powered by CloudFlare.