CloudFront is the content delivery network (CDN) from Amazon Web Services.
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Backend Software Engineer in Information Technology at 10 Digital Media Limited (Sports, 1-10 employees)
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. …
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Software Engineer in Engineering at Genpact (Information Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees)
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 …
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Verified User
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 …
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Senior Software Engineer & Project Manager in Information Technology at WiFiesta Inc (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)
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.
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Verified User
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. …
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Co-Founder at RouteThis (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
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.
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CTO in Engineering at Cureus (Publishing, 1-10 employees)
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.
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Director of Engineering in Engineering at NorthOut (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
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 …
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DevOps Engineer in Information Technology at VirgoCX (Financial Services, 51-200 employees)
Chose Cloudflare
Amazon CloudFront is a highly scalable CDN service integrated with AWS. Couldflare provides us more other functions and services than Amazon CloudFront. Google Cloud CDN offers fast and reliable content delivery with integration into Google Cloud services. But we didn't deploy …
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Co-Creator in Engineering at Flights Machine (Leisure, Travel & Tourism, 1-10 employees)
Chose Cloudflare
Compared to Fastly and Amazon CloudFront, CloudFlare blows away the competition. It is incredible how much CloudFlare offers for free compared to these other solutions. With Fastly, expect a minimum bill of $50 per month, if not $X00 for decently trafficked sites. AWS …
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Founder in Product Management at Velora Studios (Design, 1-10 employees)
Chose Cloudflare
Compared to CloudFront, CloudFlare provides a great deal of value beyond simply being a content delivery network (CDN). We have found ourselves in some cases using Amazon CloudFront in combination with CloudFlare because we might have a bunch of assets stored in Amazon S3 which …
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Senior Web Developer in Engineering at WebpageFX (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees)
Chose Cloudflare
Amazon CloudFront is a higher level CDN. It can require a bit more expertise and take some extra time to get working, but can provide better performance results. It can replace some of CloudFlare's functionality or be integrated with it. We often use CloudFlare for smaller …
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System Administrator in Information Technology at JET e-business (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Chose Cloudflare
The decision for Cloudflare was both financial and technical. For our business, Cloudflare is very affordable and offers many reliable features. The security stack is complete; everything you need to protect your web application is available from Cloudflare. Azion, CloudFront, …
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Verified User
Chose Cloudflare
Cloudflare is on another level compared to any other CDN provider out there. One of the reasons is that encompasses all the tools into one big products instead of relying on many different products from many companies - DNS, CDN, WAF are all managed in one place and connected …
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Verified User
Chose Cloudflare
Overall we are using Cloudflare as well as AWS cloud across various domains in our organization. To some extent such as DNS management on Route53, CloudFront takes advantage of Cloudflare as it provides a straightforward UI for DNS management. But when it comes to traffic …
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Verified User
Chose Cloudflare
AWS Cloudfront is so poon in UI, features. Almost you cannot compare them because the scale is too large.
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Verified User
Chose Cloudflare
Cloudflare outperforms in majority of the categories such as Ease of Use, Pricing Transparency, Security & Edge computing capabilities with global network reach. Cloudflare is known for providing a seamless onboarding experience for users of varying technical expertise in …
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Digital Design Director at HUEDESK (Design, 1-10 employees)
Chose Cloudflare
It has been over six years since we started using Cloudflare. After using KeyCDN for just about a year, we think that it's not a bad CDN, but Cloudflare stands out because it offers so many other services simultaneously. There's not been a single domain that we purchased and …
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Verified User
Chose Cloudflare
Cloudflare is notably simpler and cheaper as compared to CloudFront. If we also consider the corresponding edge compute mechanism, CloudFront has more complexity in maintaining it. For instance, in order to maintain our A/B test stack on CloudFront, we need to maintain three …
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Verified User
Chose Cloudflare
Cost-efficient and easy to use. Developer-friendly, unlike Fastly which is very complex to use. Several products combined in the same offering making it a single tool to solve several problems like CDN, Image Management, DDOS Prevention, Smart Network Routing.
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Sr system administrator in Information Technology at Inoryasoft Pvt ltd (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Chose Cloudflare
Cloud flare is very easy to setup and use. It does come along with multiple security features which makes it to stand out of the crowd. The pricing is well suited for our usage.
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Verified User
Chose Cloudflare
Cloudflare proved to be the winning choice over its competitors because it was the only solution that's so complete. The other solutions we analyzed were convincing for the caching/CDN aspect but had gaps in other aspects such as security or DDoS protection. Cloudflare also …
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Verified User
Chose Cloudflare
Cloudflare was 4x cheaper to use as our image CDN over Cloudfront for the same content in our AWS S3 bucket.
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Marketing Director in Marketing at 77HAUS (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees)
Chose Cloudflare
We use CloudFront in combination with Cloudflare on some of our sites where the content is stored on AWS servers. It works well together as long as the records are set up properly. Ultimately we use Cloudflare as an easier solution to integrate with and one that is bulletproof …
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Verified User
Chose Cloudflare
Cloudflare is a full DNS and load balancing system. AWS CloudFront handles load balancing and DDoS prevention, but on its own requires other services to handle DNS and various other features that are baked directly into Cloudflare. If you're hosting on AWS already, using the …
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Verified User
Chose Cloudflare
Cloudflare and CloudFront are both great tools. I would recommend Cloudflare for sites that are not hosted on Amazon, and CloudFront for sites using Amazon Web Services.
The pricing and features are comparable. Overall, Cloudflare's free tier offers more services, which gives …
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Director of Engineering in Engineering at NorthOut (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Chose Cloudflare
CloudFlare shines in a situation where you need a low-cost solution that can be un-integrated with other aspects of your deployment. For websites that have larger DDoS risk, their DDoS solutions are also attractive. Up-market, their enterprise offerings are on par with services …
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Amazon CloudFront and Cloudflare are both content delivery networks. Cloudflare is a comprehensive product that includes DDoS protection and web firewall along with a CDN. CloudFront is the CDN portion of Amazon Web Services, and works as an add-on for those who already use AWS. As a single product with many features, Cloudflare is most popular with smaller businesses looking for a single solution for all their website security and performance needs, while Amazon CloudFront is favored by large businesses that need multiple, fully-featured products that work together.
Features
Though Amazon CloudFront and Cloudflare have similar offerings, there are some significant differences between them.
CloudFront is an umbrella product that, depending on your pricing tier, includes DDoS attack mitigation, web firewall, mobile optimization, cache analysis and more, in addition to its CDN which is a standard feature at every tier. Each pricing tier includes guaranteed support via chat or email, and the free tier is robust enough that many small businesses never have to move to a paid plan. The DNS manager makes it fast and simple to move websites to different nameservers.
Amazon CloudFront is the CDN portion of Amazon Web Services. Businesses who already use other parts of AWS find that CloudFront integrates seamlessly with their other AWS services. Like Cloudflare, CloudFront has a free tier, but CloudFront pricing tiers are separated by usage, not services offered. Those with relatively low usage on their sites may find this pricing structure to their liking.
Limitations
Both products have drawbacks that are unique to them.
Cloudflare can cache aggressively, leaving users confused as to why no new content is available.Additionally, support at the free tier is hit or miss, and the user interface is a bit clunky.
Amazon CloudFront works well for large businesses that already use AWS, but for small businesses without AWS it may not make sense to commit to several different services under the AWS umbrella when one will suffice. Additionally, usage-based pricing may result in a large bill when there is an unexpected traffic spike. CloudFront can be difficult to set up and use for folks who are new to CDN.
Pricing
As mentioned above, Cloudflare and CloudFront are priced quite differently. Cloudflare’s pricing is service based: above the free tier they have Pro at $20 per month and Business at $200 per month, and the Enterprise tier is custom priced. CloudFront has a free tier, and pricing above that tier is based on usage. They also offer custom bundled pricing for customers who are willing to make certain minimum traffic commitments.
Features
Amazon CloudFront
Cloudflare
DDoS Protection
Comparison of DDoS Protection features of Amazon CloudFront and Cloudflare
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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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