Akamai vs AWS CloudFront

AWS CloudFront is used by more websites in our catalog: 3,577 use Akamai and 23,983 use AWS CloudFront.

Akamai sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Akamai: 68, AWS CloudFront: 54).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Akamai went from 0.56% to 0.41% of all tracked sites, while AWS CloudFront went from 3.5% to 2.7%. Akamai is gaining ground faster in our index.

121 websites in our catalog use both Akamai and AWS CloudFront.

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.