CDN Overview is a curated index of content delivery network providers. Browse the A-Z list, filter by name, and jump into detailed profiles for scope, features, and references.

#

5 Cents CDN

5 Cents CDN offers affordable content delivery with global PoPs, video streaming, and web acceleration for enterprises.

A

AdvancedHosting

AdvancedHosting offers Anycast CDN for static assets up to 50 MB and a separate Video CDN, with global per-TB traffic billing, origin shielding and delivery controls.

Akamai

Akamai provides a global CDN with robust security, edge computing, and media delivery for high-traffic websites and applications.

Alibaba Cloud CDN

Alibaba Cloud CDN provides global content delivery with over 1,200 POPs, optimized for low-latency and high-performance in APAC and China.

Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront is a global CDN offering content delivery, security, and edge computing for web and streaming applications.

Arelion

Arelion provides global IP backbone and connectivity services, including CDN solutions for hosting and content delivery.

AT&T

AT&T's CDN delivers content via a global network, optimized for telecom infrastructure, serving enterprise and media customers.

Azion Technologies

Azion Technologies provides edge computing and CDN services for secure, scalable digital applications.

B

Baidu AI Cloud CDN

Baidu AI Cloud CDN serves static websites, downloads and media, with separate regional tariffs and optional request charges for HTTP/3 or dynamic acceleration.

BaishanCloud

BaishanCloud provides global CDN, edge security, and cloud data services for efficient content delivery and data management.

BelugaCDN

BelugaCDN offers a low-cost CDN with global content delivery, focusing on fast load times and affordability.

BlazingCDN

BlazingCDN provides global CDN services for fast, secure content delivery, focusing on video, gaming, and large file distribution.

BT (British Telecom)

BT (British Telecom) provides CDN services with a focus on telecom infrastructure, offering edge caching for video and AR/VR content delivery.

BunnyCDN

BunnyCDN offers content delivery, edge storage, and video streaming with global reach and cost-effective pricing.

BytePlus

BytePlus CDN offers global content delivery with over 1,300 PoPs, focusing on low-latency video, web, and app distribution.

C

CacheFly

CacheFly, a Chicago-based CDN, delivers static and dynamic content globally with a focus on speed and reliability for video, gaming, and software distribution.

CDN77

CDN77 provides global content delivery with 200 Tbps capacity, focusing on video, gaming, and secure content distribution.

CDNetworks

CDNetworks provides global CDN services with extensive PoPs, focusing on performance, security, and media delivery for e-commerce, gaming, and more.

CDNLion

CDNLion was a global CDN provider offering website and media acceleration from over 110 data centers, now part of LaunchCDN.

CDNSun

CDNSun provides affordable CDN services with global coverage for website acceleration, video streaming, and software delivery.

CDNVideo

CDNVideo provides CDN services for video streaming and content delivery, with a focus on Russia and global markets.

Cedexis

Cedexis was a traffic-steering and performance-monitoring company acquired by Citrix in February 2018. Later service outcomes remain unverified.

China Telecom

China Telecom CDN provides content delivery services with extensive infrastructure in China and global reach for optimized distribution.

ChinaCache

ChinaCache was a Beijing-based CDN operator. EdgeNext acquired its overseas business in 2023; this did not establish a whole-company acquisition.

ChinaNetCenter

ChinaNetCenter provides CDN and IDC services, focusing on content delivery, cloud computing, and security solutions for businesses in China and globally.

Citrix

Citrix NetScaler provides CDN and traffic steering solutions, focusing on secure application delivery and load balancing.

Cloudflare

Cloudflare provides CDN, DDoS protection, and web security services with a global network for fast, secure content delivery.

Cloudimage

Cloudimage optimizes images and other media with URL transformations, responsive libraries and multi-CDN delivery. Plans combine traffic, storage and operation allowances.

Cloudinary

Cloudinary combines image/video transformations, managed storage and multi-CDN delivery. Shared credits cover processing, storage and bandwidth.

Comcast

Comcast CDN provides content delivery services with a focus on video streaming and low-latency performance for ISPs and content providers.

D

DDoS-Guard

DDoS-Guard combines reverse-proxy website protection with CDN caching. Fixed monthly plans vary by domains, support and security options.

Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom offers telecom-based CDN services focused on reliable content delivery for European markets.

E

EdgeCast

EdgeCast provides CDN and video streaming services, now operated by Parler Cloud Technologies after Edgio's 2024 bankruptcy.

EdgeMesh

Edgemesh provides edge delivery and caching for ecommerce stores, with tools for bot filtering, analytics, and measuring performance from real visitors.

EdgeNext

EdgeNext provides global CDN services with a focus on APAC, China, and MENA, offering content delivery, cloud security, and edge computing.

Edgio

Edgio provided CDN and edge compute services with global reach, now defunct due to bankruptcy and asset sale.

F

Fastly

Fastly provides a global CDN and edge cloud platform for fast, secure content delivery and edge computing.

G

G-Core

G-Core CDN provides global content delivery with over 150 PoPs, offering low-latency video, gaming, and web content distribution.

Google Cloud CDN

Google Cloud CDN delivers cacheable web and API content through Google's edge network and integrates with external Application Load Balancers.

Gumlet

Gumlet Image CDN transforms and delivers images from your existing storage. Image bandwidth billing is separate from Gumlet’s video-hosting plans.

H

Hetzner

Hetzner is a cloud and hosting provider, not a native CDN. Its Object Storage documentation recommends using a third-party CDN for global delivery.

Hibernia

Hibernia Networks operated connectivity and media-delivery infrastructure before GTT completed its acquisition in January 2017.

Highwinds

Highwinds was a CDN provider offering global content delivery, video streaming, and cloud storage until its services were discontinued in 2023.

HolaCDN

HolaCDN, a video-focused CDN, offered global content delivery for streaming but is now defunct, with users needing to migrate.

Huawei Cloud CDN

Huawei Cloud CDN accelerates static websites, downloads and on-demand video. Whole-site acceleration adds dynamic routing and different billing.

I

IBM NS1 Connect

IBM NS1 Connect is a managed DNS and traffic-steering service. It can steer across CDNs, but it does not cache or deliver content itself.

ImageKit

ImageKit optimizes and delivers images and video from existing origins or managed storage. Plans separate bandwidth, storage, processing units and custom domains.

imgix

imgix connects to existing media sources and transforms assets through URLs. Credit bundles cover cached media, delivery and feature-dependent transformations.

Imperva

Imperva CDN delivers secure content delivery with global PoPs, DDoS protection, and WAF for optimized web performance.

Incapsula

Incapsula, now part of Imperva, offers CDN services with web security, DDoS protection, and load balancing for enhanced performance.

Instart Logic

Instart provided web-performance services. Akamai acquired selected customer contracts and intellectual property in 2020, not the whole company.

Internap

Internap, now HorizonIQ, provides cloud and data center services with a focus on bare metal and colocation, previously offering a global CDN.

IORiver

IORiver provides a MultiCDN platform for managing multiple CDNs, optimizing performance, reliability, and cost with unified traffic steering and edge services.

K

KeyCDN

KeyCDN is a content delivery network (CDN) focused on fast, global content delivery with features like real-time analytics and DDoS protection.

Kingsoft Cloud (kscloud)

Kingsoft Cloud provides CDN, cloud storage, and computing services with a focus on AI, gaming, and enterprise solutions in China and global markets.

L

Leaseweb

Leaseweb operates a managed Multi-CDN service that routes traffic across several underlying CDN providers.

Level 3 Communications CDN

Level 3 became part of CenturyLink in 2017. Lumen sold selected CDN customer contracts to Akamai in 2023 and announced a CDN wind-down.

Limelight

Limelight Networks combined with Edgecast and changed its name to Edgio in 2022. Edgio later ceased its CDN operations.

Lumen Technologies

Lumen Technologies, formerly a global CDN provider, offered content delivery services until its CDN operations were sold to Akamai in 2023.

M

MaxCDN

MaxCDN was a content delivery network incorporated into StackPath in 2016. Its independent brand is historical.

MediaNova

MediaNova provides CDN and cloud security solutions, focusing on web acceleration, video streaming, and DDoS protection for EMEA businesses.

Microsoft Azure CDN and Front Door

Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) retires on 30 September 2027. Microsoft directs new deployments to Azure Front Door Standard or Premium.

Microsoft eCDN

Microsoft eCDN reduces repeated video downloads within enterprise networks. Teams Town Hall entitlements and attendee packs determine licensing, rather than public-CDN GB rates.

Mirror Image

Mirror Image provided CDN services with dynamic content acceleration and real-time analytics, now defunct.

Mlytics

Mlytics provides a MultiCDN platform with AI-driven traffic steering for optimized web performance and video streaming.

N

NAVER Cloud Platform CDN

NAVER Cloud Platform Global CDN delivers files and media with token controls, purge, logs and APIs. Korean traffic uses the separate Global Edge service.

Ngenix

Ngenix provides CDN and cloud services for web acceleration, DDoS protection, and video streaming, primarily in Russia and CIS regions.

NTT Communications

NTT Communications retired its CDN Platform Powered by Edgecast in January 2025 and directs customers to its Akamai-based CDN service.

O

OnApp CDN

OnApp CDN provides a federated content delivery network for hosting providers, leveraging spare cloud capacity for global content delivery.

Orange (France)

Orange (France) provides telecom-based CDN services with a focus on EMEA, offering content delivery and security for enterprises.

P

PageCDN

PageCDN, now SimpleCDN, is a CDN offering public and private content delivery with a focus on performance optimization.

Parler

Parler Cloud Technologies provides CDN services via EdgeCast, focusing on censorship-resistant cloud hosting for social media and streaming.

Peer5

Peer5 provided a WebRTC-based P2P CDN for live video streaming, acquired by Microsoft in 2021 to enhance Teams.

Pipe Network

Pipe Network is a decentralized CDN on Solana blockchain, enabling low-latency content delivery via community-run nodes.

Q

Qiniu QCDN

Qiniu QCDN combines delivery and origin caching with APIs for domains, cache operations and logs. HTTP/HTTPS tariffs differ by account market and region.

Quantil

Quantil provides global CDN services with over 800 PoPs, specializing in content acceleration, video streaming, and edge computing for diverse industries.

Qwilt

Qwilt’s federated Open Edge Cloud delivers websites and live or on-demand video through ISP-embedded nodes, with publisher APIs, cache controls and logs.

R

Rackspace

Rackspace CDN provides content delivery with global reach, focusing on performance and integration with cloud services.

S

Section IO

Section.io operated a distributed computing platform before Webscale announced its acquisition in October 2023 to create CloudFlow.

SimpleCDN

SimpleCDN offers content delivery services with a global network to optimize website and media delivery.

Singtel

Singtel offers telecom and digital infrastructure services, including CDN, with a focus on APAC connectivity and data centers.

Sirv

Sirv combines responsive images, product zoom and 360-spin with hosted storage and CDN delivery. Plan choice depends on storage and monthly transfer allowances.

SkyparkCDN

SkyparkCDN, a Russian CDN, offered content delivery and DDoS protection before its acquisition by G-Core Labs in 2017.

StackPath

StackPath exited the CDN business in 2023. Akamai acquired about 100 enterprise customer contracts, without StackPath personnel or technology.

StackServices

StackServices was a CDN provider focused on edge computing and content delivery, now defunct as of November 2023.

Streamroot

Streamroot provided peer-to-peer CDN solutions for video streaming, acquired by CenturyLink in 2019, now defunct.

SwiftServe

SwiftServe CDN provides content delivery with a focus on Asia, offering caching, streaming, and analytics for media and web applications.

Synedge

Synedge offered a Multi-CDN platform for optimized content delivery, acquired by Ocom in 2018, now defunct.

System73

System73 provides AI-powered MultiCDN solutions for video streaming, optimizing QoE and reducing costs with real-time traffic steering.

T

Tata Communications

Tata Communications CDN offers global content delivery, security, and media services for enterprises, with a focus on digital transformation.

Telefónica

Telefónica, a telecom CDN, provided content delivery services with a focus on Europe and Latin America, now defunct.

Telia Carrier

Telia Carrier, now Arelion, provides global CDN and connectivity services with a tier-1 network for operators and enterprises.

Telstra Internet Delivery Network

Telstra Internet Delivery Network carries professional live-video signals between broadcast endpoints over the public internet, with managed routing and endpoint options.

Tencent Cloud CDN

Tencent Cloud CDN delivers websites, downloads and on-demand media across mainland China and international markets, with region-specific traffic billing.

Transparent CDN

Transparent CDN provides web optimization and content delivery services for e-businesses, focusing on performance and analytics.

TurboBytes

TurboBytes was a MultiCDN platform optimizing content delivery via real-time performance-based traffic steering.

U

UCloud UCDN

UCloud UCDN delivers web assets, downloads and on-demand video with origin failover, cache controls and usage APIs. Whole-site add-ons have separate charges.

UniEdge

UniEdge provides a MultiCDN platform for managing multiple CDNs with unified configuration, deployment, and observability.

Universal CDN

Universal CDN provides global content delivery with real-time analytics and API-first design for optimized web performance.

Uploadcare CDN

Uploadcare CDN provides file management and content delivery for web and mobile apps, focusing on media optimization and developer tools.

V

Velocix

Velocix supplies CDN software and managed deployments for live and on-demand video. Operators can deploy across dedicated hardware, private clouds and public clouds.

Vercara

Vercara provides cloud-based CDN, DNS, and security solutions for reliable online experiences.

Verizon Media (VMDS)

Verizon's historical media-delivery service became Edgecast, combined with Limelight as Edgio, and later ceased CDN operations.

Viblast

Viblast provided peer-to-peer video streaming CDN solutions for broadcasters and publishers, now defunct.

Vodafone

Vodafone provides telecom-based CDN services, leveraging its global network for streaming and content delivery in Europe and Africa.

W

Warpcache

Warpcache launched as a Netherlands-based multi-CDN service in 2015. System73 acquired all shares in Warpcache B.V. in October 2019.

WebMobi Networks

WebMobi Networks offered CDN solutions for video and audio streaming, focusing on low-latency content delivery for web and mobile platforms.

Z

Zenlayer

Zenlayer CDN serves downloads, websites and media, with origin routing, access controls and APIs. Global Accelerator and other Zenlayer products have separate scope.

CDN Overview: quick FAQ

What is this page?
A human-curated index of CDN providers with links to deeper profiles.

How do I choose a CDN?
Start with audience regions, performance goals such as p95 latency, and security requirements such as WAF or WAAP. Shortlist two or three providers, then test.

Do I need MultiCDN?
Use it when outages or regional gaps matter. See the MultiCDN page for tradeoffs.