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    Amazon CloudFront

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ACloudFront is the content delivery network (CDN) from Amazon Web Services.

    $0.02

    Cloudflare

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ACloudflare’s connectivity cloud is a unified platform of cloud-native services designed to help enterprises regain control over their IT environments. Powered by an intelligent, programmable global cloud network, it is built to offer security, performance, visibility, and reliability.

    $20

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    Google Cloud DNS

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Cloud DNS is a managed DNS service, featuring a global network of anycast servers and touting reliability, availability, and performance.N/A
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    Amazon CloudFrontCloudflareGoogle Cloud DNS
    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
    Pro
    $20
    per month
    Business
    $200
    per month
    Free
    Free
    Enterprise
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    Amazon CloudFrontCloudflareGoogle Cloud DNS
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Amazon CloudFrontCloudflareGoogle Cloud DNS
    DDoS Protection
    Comparison of DDoS Protection features of Amazon CloudFront and Cloudflare and Google Cloud DNS
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    Amazon CloudFront
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    Ratings
    Cloudflare
    8.4
    6 Ratings
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    Google Cloud DNS
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    Automatic Scalability00 Ratings9.47 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mitigation SLA00 Ratings8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security policy management00 Ratings8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    WAF capabilities00 Ratings8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Request rate limiting00 Ratings7.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Traffic filtering00 Ratings7.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bot detection00 Ratings8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Global threat intelligence00 Ratings8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Real-time analytics and reporting00 Ratings7.87 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Amazon CloudFrontCloudflareGoogle Cloud DNS
    Small Businesses
    Google Cloud CDN
    Score6.2 out of 10
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    Amazon Route 53
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Google Cloud CDN
    Score6.2 out of 10
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    Azure DNS
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Azure CDN
    Score7.6 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Amazon Route 53
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon CloudFrontCloudflareGoogle Cloud DNS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (17 ratings)
    9.1
    (192 ratings)
    9.0
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    8.2
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    Usability
    9.0
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    8.6
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    9.1
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    Performance
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    9.1
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    7.0
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    6.6
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    7.5
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    8.6
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    Configurability
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    Ease of integration
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    9.0
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    Product Scalability
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    9.1
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    7.0
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    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    Amazon CloudFrontCloudflareGoogle Cloud DNS
    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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    Cloudflare
    Cloudflare has features as a CDN/Gateway/Reverse Proxy that simply don't exist in other solutions. Having so many capabilities under a single platform, with solid support and high uptime, has been essential. I would recommend it for hobby projects all the way to enterprise scale. There's a lot of push around AI and workers. Some feel like Cloudflare is following the hype. But after reading a lot about the new features, a decent amount of them has real value.
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    Google
    Google cloud is well suited to access and collaborate on documents where more than 2 people are required to contribute and in instances where feedback from individuals is captured on the document itself. If a team is working on an end of year report for funders, a few key members may need to finalise a report by offering suggestions that can be viewed and resolved by other team members. Housing documents on Google Cloud is the most appropriate platform I have ever used for tasks like these. If minimal collaboration needs engagement from just 2 individuals, it may be easier to simply email the information between each other, rather than using time to create a folder, ensure access control and upload the information to Google Cloud for collaborative input
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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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    Cloudflare
    • The best part is the content delivery network. Cloudflare has a large network of data centres around the world that helps cache and delivers content quickly to our customers.
    • Cloudflare offers us with a fast and reliable DNS service and with the world class features such as Cloudflare workers, SSL verification, certificate management and web application firewall. When all of these are combined together, it provides very strict security for our organization.
    • One of the most important feature that we use is the analytics and threat detection. It provides us with the real time insights of all the threats originating from multiple locations and landing on our websites.
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    Google
    • Interface is user friendly
    • It is safe , Secure and reliable
    • It has lower pricing plans
    • They have good customer support
    • They do have good documentation to have fair ideas on their offerings
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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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    Cloudflare
    • In some cases, using Cloudflare can actually lead to slower website speeds if the network is congested or if the website's traffic is particularly heavy.
    • Some website owners may find that the level of customization offered by Cloudflare is limited, especially in comparison to other solutions.
    • While Cloudflare is easy to set up and manage, it may be too complex for users who are not familiar with web technologies.
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    Google
    • It is hard for first time user to get used to it.
    • Support is restricted for 3rd party services who uses it
    • Sometimes the support people take more than 24hrs to reply to our queries, But it is not for all issues.
    • Search function could have been made easy to search records
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
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    Cloudflare
    lower cost
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    Google
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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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    Cloudflare
    Everything is extremely concise and all settings apply immediately and take effect globally. There is no reason to explicitly plan/think in terms of individual regions as one would have to traditional cloud offerings (AWS, OCI, Azure). All Cloudflare products integrate seamless as part of a single pipeline that executes from request to response.
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    Google
    This is exceptionally simple to utilize in the event that you are as of now utilizing Google Cloud Services or you are important for the Google Ecosystem as of now. I accept this is likely the primary goal of Google Cloud DNS, to give a more complete set-up of devices to Google Cloud clients. Consequently, I would rate convenience a 9.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Amazon AWS
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    Cloudflare
    In 6+ years of relying on Cloudflare, I think we experienced one or two brief outages that were Cloudflare's fault.
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    Google
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    Performance
    Amazon AWS
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    Cloudflare
    Their Argo for the global network is the core feature we love.
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    Google
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    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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    Cloudflare
    While I have had good support in the past from Cloudflare's technical support team, I have had some terrible experiences with billing support. I have had multiple tickets sent to their billing support that I will never receive a reply to for over a month. When I finally do get a reply, it has been an automated email that never gives me an answer to my question.
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    Google
    In the event that you are utilizing Google Cloud Platform as your cloud supplier, Google Cloud DNS is unquestionably the DNS supplier to utilize.
    I haven't required help for it yet, notwithstanding, in my experience, Google Support is incredible.
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    Implementation Rating
    Amazon AWS
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    Cloudflare
    Very well executed implementation where our team was able to handle the implementation with guidance.
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    Google
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    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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    Cloudflare
    Nothing like it. Organizations can utilize these Cloudflare products to enhance their online presence by improving security, performance, reliability, and developer efficiency. Cloudflare is an American company that delivers services such as DNS, a content delivery network (CDN), and various other additional services to make websites faster and more secure. Cloudflare is used by over 26 million sites, resulting in the processing of more than 1 billion IP addresses each day.
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    Google
    Amazon Route 53 offers almost equal or slightly more features than Google Cloud DNS; we selected Google Cloud DNS because the rest of our projects use Google Cloud Platform.
    Also, since AWS is a bigger service provider, their pricing is also higher; since Google Cloud DNS pricing is better, we went for it.
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    Scalability
    Amazon AWS
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    Cloudflare
    They are built for scale and have the capacity to handle all the traffic we could ever expect to get.
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Cloudflare
    • Immediate ROI on Registrar and DNS hosting while giving a single plane of glass to managing both with domain registrations at cost, and no cost DNS hosting
    • WAF helped us move at risk servers/applications into a protected state allowing us to perform remediations at a measured pace and get them done right instead of band aide solutions.
    • CDN proxying increase the speed of our website while simultaneously reducing server load.
    • DMARC management and report interpretation allow use to identify weak points in our email systems, remediate and move to stricter policies without significantly increasing staff time spent managing it.
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    Google
    • We use GCP for all our projects so Google Cloud DNS fits perfectly
    • It is proving to scale well so good for us since we are a growing company
    • It is easy to use and doesn't require a separate team to maintain
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