Amazon CloudFront vs. CacheFly CDN

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon CloudFront
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
CloudFront is the content delivery network (CDN) from Amazon Web Services.
$0.02
CacheFly CDN
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
CacheFly offers a content delivery network.
$0
per month
Pricing
Amazon CloudFrontCacheFly CDN
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
Free
$0
per month
Business
From $295.00
per month
Enterprise
From $2,495.00
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon CloudFrontCacheFly CDN
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsFree Plan $0/mo, 5TB, 1 Domain, Core Network - 19 PoPs North America and Europe, 24/7 Email Support Business Plans from $295/mo, 12TB, 50 Domains, Global Network – 64 PoPs, 24/7 Email & Phone Support Enterprise Plans from $2,495/mo, 64TB, 500 Domains, Global Network + Edge Acceleration Proxies – 109 PoPs, 24/7 Email, Phone, & Slack Support
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Community Pulse
Amazon CloudFrontCacheFly CDN
Considered Both Products
Amazon CloudFront
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.
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.
CacheFly CDN
Chose CacheFly CDN
Pricing was always competitive, but when it appeared someone else could do better Cachefly always matched.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Best Alternatives
Amazon CloudFrontCacheFly CDN
Small Businesses
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 8.8 out of 10
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 8.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 8.8 out of 10
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprises
Azure CDN
Azure CDN
Score 8.4 out of 10
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront
Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon CloudFrontCacheFly CDN
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(17 ratings)
8.3
(2 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon CloudFrontCacheFly CDN
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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CacheFly
CacheFly CDN will open new doors for you to make your place in the online business world. This tool will help you a lot in increasing your productivity on a larger scale worldwide. This is the most appropriately designed tool that will help you meet all the needs of your business. If I talk about my organization I would say it is very useful too for productivity in our organization.
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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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CacheFly
  • Support has always been a positive experience
  • When doing initial cdn shopping it was nice to talk to a person to understand how pricing and structure worked compared to others where you just had to use a calculator.
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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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CacheFly
  • This is quite expensive tool.
  • Since this is a technical tool, there is a steep learning curve.
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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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CacheFly
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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CacheFly
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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CacheFly
Pricing was always competitive, but when it appeared someone else could do better Cachefly always matched
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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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CacheFly
  • It is not expensive.
  • Through its APIs, I am in a position of building the custom analytics in real-time.
  • This tool helps us to enhance the productivity.
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