Amazon CloudFront vs. Azure Firewall

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon CloudFront
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
CloudFront is the content delivery network (CDN) from Amazon Web Services.
$0.02
Azure Firewall
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Azure Firewall is a cloud-native, intelligent network firewall security service that offers threat protection for Azure cloud workloads. It is a fully stateful firewall as a service, featuring built-in high availability and unlimited cloud scalability.
$0.40
per deployment hour $0.065 per GB processed
Pricing
Amazon CloudFrontAzure Firewall
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
Basic
$0.395
per deployment hour $0.065 per GB processed
Standard
$1.25
per deployment hour $0.016 per GB processed
Premium
$1.75
per deployment hour $0.016 per GB processed
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon CloudFrontAzure Firewall
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Amazon CloudFrontAzure Firewall
Features
Amazon CloudFrontAzure Firewall
Firewall
Comparison of Firewall features of Product A and Product B
Amazon CloudFront
-
Ratings
Azure Firewall
8.0
1 Ratings
7% below category average
Identification Technologies00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Visualization Tools00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Content Inspection00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Policy-based Controls00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Active Directory and LDAP00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Firewall Management Console00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Reporting and Logging00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
VPN00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
High Availability00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Stateful Inspection00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Amazon CloudFrontAzure Firewall
Small Businesses
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 8.9 out of 10
pfSense
pfSense
Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 8.9 out of 10
Quantum Firewalls and Security Gateways
Quantum Firewalls and Security Gateways
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Azure CDN
Azure CDN
Score 7.6 out of 10
Palo Alto Networks Virtualized Next-Generation Firewalls - VM Series
Palo Alto Networks Virtualized Next-Generation Firewalls - VM Series
Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon CloudFrontAzure Firewall
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(17 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon CloudFrontAzure Firewall
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.
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Microsoft
Azure Firewall is well suited for most mid sized and large sized companies that deal with thousands of users within multiple environments. Azure Firewall allows you to protect business assets by preventing malicious attacks from entering the network. Azure Firewall would be less suited for a small company that does not use a vpn or have users outside of the office as something smaller would be more appropriate.
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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.
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Microsoft
  • Azure Fire wall is easy to use
  • Azure fire wall is easy to set up
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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
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Microsoft
  • Azure Fire wall pricing may not always be competitive
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Usability
Amazon AWS
Easy way to integrate a CDN within the AWS infrastructure. It allows further customization based on company needs.
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Microsoft
No answers on this topic
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.
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Microsoft
No answers on this topic
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.
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Microsoft
Azure Firewall is a very competitive product that exceeds or meets the competitions offerings and is able to effectively manage a company network and securely lock down the domain environment with seamless integration and easy to use tools while offering great support assistance. We selected Azure Firewall because the customer service that comes with the product is second to none and allows us to keep maximum uptime to protect our assets.
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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.
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Microsoft
  • Azure Firewall decreased our overhead by over 7%
  • Azure fire wall has increased efficiency within the security department
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