Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront

105 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon CloudFront	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	CloudFront is the content delivery network (CDN) from Amazon Web Services.	$0.02

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Amazon CloudFront

Editions & Modules

Over 5PB: $0.02
Next 524TB: $0.03
Next 4PB: $0.03
Next 350TB: $0.04
Next 100TB: $0.06
Next 40TB: $0.08
First 10TB: $0.09

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Pricing Offerings
Amazon CloudFront
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Amazon CloudFront
Considered Both Products	Amazon CloudFront Verified User Vice-President Chose Amazon CloudFront Cloudfront is one of the oldest CDN with presence in a lot of locations. This really helps in making the content load faster in all the locations globally. Other products have also caught up with this but still AWS has a lot of other services which can be connected with the CDN … Incentivized Helpful? Faisal Shaikh Leade Developer Chose Amazon CloudFront CloudFronts beats everyone with their free 1 TB monthly bandwidth usage. And if we compare speed and latency of CloudFront with the BunnyCDN and CloudFare, CloudFront is was faster than them. With CloudFront, we get options like signed URL and signed cookies which prevent our … Incentivized Helpful? Gnanasekar Mani Senior Software Engineer Chose Amazon CloudFront Have used the IBM Cloud Content Delivery Network for a very short time span like a couple of weeks. Both the setup as well as interactions with other services are a little complicated or not straightforward when compared to AWS. Also, IBM cloud has less number of edge locations … Incentivized Helpful? Ali Kazempour Information Technology Manager Chose Amazon CloudFront Amazon has always been creative and leading, and I have been using its services for years. They are very reassuring and have fast and responsive support--you can call them from any time zone to respond quickly. High security on servers, open hands on changes, and increasing and … Helpful? CB Carlos Becerra Senior Software Engineer & Project Manager Chose Amazon CloudFront We use a great set of AWS features and it was easy to implement Amazon CloudFront. It fulfills our needs, and the learning curve was not difficult given the AWS configuration we already have. Incentivized Helpful? Fortune Nwaiwu Business Analyst Chose Amazon CloudFront I find Amazon CloudFront to be better suited to my business needs in terms of robustness, agility and scalalbility of the solution. Incentivized Helpful? Bob Smith Co-Founder, President, CTO Chose Amazon CloudFront Because our products are built and utilize other AWS features, it was easiest to implement Amazon CloudFront based on initial environment configuration. Other CDNs were easier to get started with but required manual intervention to update overtime. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose Amazon CloudFront If you are using other AWS services, then no other CDN can compete with AWS CloudFront. Its integration with WAF, Route53, ACM allow it to provide a whole ecosystem for building websites and using a CDN. It gives developers access to inexpensive, pay-as-you-go pricing. … Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Gardner Co-Founder Chose Amazon CloudFront We ended up selecting CloudFront because we were already using an Amazon stack. To be honest, since we were already in the ecosystem there was little reason to deviate once we saw pricing was comparable. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Barretto CTO Chose Amazon CloudFront We went with CloudFront primarily because we have all of our other services with Amazon already. We are using EC2, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, and are very familiar with the interface. It did not disappoint. Incentivized Helpful? Joshua Dickson Director of Engineering Chose Amazon CloudFront CloudFront is well-suited for a particular use case with its native tie-ins to other Amazon/AWS services, like S3. If choosing from a platform-specific CDN, we tend to go with whichever CDN is available for use on that platform (e.g. Google or Azure). In rare cases we might … Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Raines Backend Software Engineer Chose Amazon CloudFront CloudFlare is another great CDN service. It comes with a lot of things set up of the box for you, and gives you a basic and reasonable set up straight away. It also has a free-tier for smaller sites. CloudFlare doesn't quite have the same level of configurability, however. … Incentivized Helpful? AA Ashish Agarwal Software Engineer Chose Amazon CloudFront Amazon CloudFront free Tier allows up to 50 GB of data transfer per month which is not there in any of the above. Amazon CloudFront provides detailed reporting around the most frequently used objects, monitoring and usage charts. Amazon CloudFront is suitable to help you … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Content delivery Pro Aws ecosystem Pro Aws services
Top Cons	Minus Not the cheapest Minus Not intuitive Minus New users

Best Alternatives
	Amazon CloudFront
Small Businesses	Cloudflare Score 8.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Cloudflare Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprises	Azure CDN Score 8.4 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Amazon CloudFront
Likelihood to Recommend	9.2 (17 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	7.0 (4 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon CloudFront
Likelihood to Recommend	Amazon AWS Amazon CloudFront is the perfect solution for any type of company. If a company is small or medium size, CloudFront offers 1 TB monthly free bandwidth which is more than for any small and medium size companies. If we compare the speed of CloudFront with other CDN, CloudFront is way ahead of their competitors and with 1 TB free bandwidth. If someone is ready to invest time in CloudFront documentation then he/she definitely go for it. Incentivized Faisal Shaikh Leade Developer Read full review
Pros	Amazon AWS if a website’s static data are based in New York City, people in Boston will get the content faster than people in San Francisco or Tokyo. The farther away customers are from a company’s data center, the slower the website or application loads. This problem can be fixed with a content delivery network like Amazon CloudFront When a visitor requests a file from your website, Amazon CloudFront automatically sends the request to a copy of the file at the nearest edge location. This results in faster download times. You may have great hosting but it doesn’t have the capacity or scalability offered by Google, Microsoft or Yahoo. The better CDNs like Amazon CloudFront offer higher availability, lower network latency and lower packet loss. Amazon CloudFront provides 24/7 email and phone support Amazon CloudFront Free Tier allows you to free up to 50 GB of data transfer and 2,000,000 HTTP and HTTPS requests / month for one year. Incentivized AA Ashish Agarwal Software Engineer Read full review
Cons	Amazon AWS Kinda of costlier when compared to rivals providing the same service The setup of Distribution is kinda little complicated, need good exposure before setting up the service Sometimes we can go with S3 Delivery service rather than Cloudfront if the website is providing static content and its way cheaper Incentivized Gnanasekar Mani Senior Software Engineer Read full review
Usability	Amazon AWS Easy way to integrate a CDN within the AWS infrastructure. It allows further customization based on company needs. Incentivized CB Carlos Becerra Senior Software Engineer & Project Manager Read full review
Support Rating	Amazon AWS CloudFront is a good CDN solution. It can be a bit complicated to implement depending on your needs, but AWS tech support is great. You get to avoid a ton of upfront costs by going with CloudFront. It works best in conjunction with other AWS services in your infrastructure. Once you set it up, you won't need to do much to maintain it. It just works. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Amazon AWS Amazon has always been creative and leading, and I have been using its services for years. They are very reassuring and have fast and responsive support--you can call them from any time zone to respond quickly. High security on servers, open hands on changes, and increasing and decreasing server resources and features. Ali Kazempour Information Technology Manager Read full review
Return on Investment	Amazon AWS RoI for using CloudFront is immense. You can use it for all your certificate management and static asset management of your websites using CloudFront. It is as good or better than any other CDN provider with multi-region support across the world using AWS regions. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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