G2 Vendor Directory

Akamai Prolexic Routed vs. AWS Shield

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAkamai Prolexic Routed

by Akamai Technologies

AWS Shield

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Overall rating4.74.0
Review count1115
Ease of use9.38.5
Ease of setup0.08.6
Quality of support7.98.5
Meets requirements8.68.9
NPS81.81818226.666667
Small Business36.4%40.0%
Mid-Market36.4%26.7%
Enterprise27.3%33.3%
Total page views114161
Total LLM citations309232

Akamai Prolexic Routed

Managed DDoS protection service for the entire data center

Pros

    AWS Shield

    AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards web applications running on AWS. AWS Shield provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency.

    Pros