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Amazon CloudFront

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What is Amazon CloudFront?

CloudFront is the content delivery network (CDN) from Amazon Web Services.

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CloudFront CDN from AWS

8 out of 10
February 23, 2019
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My organization is a heavy user of AWS. As part of that, we also use CloudFront as our CDN for all our front end applications for static …
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Over 5PB

$0.02

Cloud

Next 524TB

$0.03

Cloud

Next 4PB

$0.03

Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Amazon CloudFront?

Amazon CloudFront Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

CloudFront is the content delivery network (CDN) from Amazon Web Services.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 7.

The most common users of Amazon CloudFront are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Faisal Shaikh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Amazon CloudFront to serve static media content like (images & videos) to users. We wanted a solution to serve static content without latency and AWS CloudFront addressed this problem. CloudFront also helps to deliver HLS videos to users. With CloudFront, we can sign the URL and server to users with this feature URL gets expired after a certain time and if someone embedded our content then it would be inaccessible. If you want to serve HLS videos then I suggest using signed cookies instead of signed URL. With signed cookies, we do not need to append an authentication token on each URL and it gets authenticated through cookies that pass on each network call.
Gnanasekar Mani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The main reason we use Cloudfront is to serve our Global Customers in a significantly faster manner. This happens through the concept called edge locations. Our static data will be present in edge locations distributed across the globe. Using this our customers will be able to interact with our website faster. Also, this improves our Customer experience as well. Also, it has inbuilt WAF(Firewall) and we can even restrict to which geography locations we need to serve our website.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I used Amazon CloudFront in my organization to ensure to distribute my service to many users and to make sure my service is always secure. We faced many different technical challenges the most of them is the access issues with most of our users and clients. We trying to keep up always and let our users and clients happy with our service.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use CloudFront to host our assets and digital media in order to speed up webpage load times. It allows us to use higher quality images and full 4K video without suffering massive load times. It is used in our Marketing department and solves the issues we have with needing to show off high-quality media.
Ali Kazempour | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
The resources we need are available to us at any time and we activate them on the server and pay according to the amount of consumption. Amazon CloudFront is a professional CDN. Amazon servers have relieved us of the worry of being disconnected or overloaded. All this is accessible with just a few clicks and you have access to all the features of the server. Server management has never been this fast and easy. You will definitely need it for big and complicated projects.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Amazon CloudFront to distribute and speed up the delivery of our static content (audio and image) to end-users across the world. Technically we use it for hosting website content (CSS, JS, Images) and speeding up content delivery from S3 and other origins with different behaviors.
Fortune Nwaiwu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently deploy Amazon CloudFront, and it enables us to speed up the delivery of our static content such as images, style sheets, JavaScript, etc. to our clients across the world. We take advantage of the Amazon web server's backbone network using Amazon CloudFront to give our customers a fast, safe, and reliable experience when they visit our website.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cloudfront is being used to distribute audio and image content to end-users. The end users are medical professionals relying on the content as part of a subscription service to maintain their career skills. To keep the content private and accessible to subscribers only, we implemented token-based security between CloudFront and our web servers.
Bob Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We've used Amazon CloudFront as a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to increase the availability of resources across multiple geographic regions while minimizing our need for EC2 instances to deliver such content. From a simple form of hosting website content (CSS, JS, Images) along with building products to utilize Amazon CloudFront as a more friendly manner to serve content within S3 and other origins.
February 23, 2019

CloudFront CDN from AWS

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My organization is a heavy user of AWS. As part of that, we also use CloudFront as our CDN for all our front end applications for static content and videos hosted on our websites. CloudFront works seamlessly with other AWS services like EC2, Lambda etc. It also has deep integration with load balancers and routers like ELB, Route 53. It is also a highly secure CDN at the network and application level.
Matthew Gardner | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
[It's] Used within the engineering department as our CDN for both the consumer-facing and B2B portions of our business. The graphics team needs access for asset uploads, etc. It helps us to quickly deliver heavy assets globally and in a way which is not developer-dependent. This is key with multiple departments using the product.
Joshua Dickson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Amazon CloudFront is a great CDN choice for applications that are already deployed to the Amazon/AWS stack. The value potential there is clear: first-party support with S3, EC2, etc. As a result, for customers that are already invested in the AWS ecosystem, using CloudFront is a logical choice. We use it across our own organization, and it fits into the CDN use case for most customers with AWS deployments. Like any CDN, CloudFront helps offload repetitive work from your main application logic, and, depending on how you configure it, can greatly speed up content downloads for end users.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use CloudFront to cache my frequently accessed static assets in a wide variety of geographic locations in order decrease the load-time of my web application. This helps contribute to a positive user experience, while also helping mitigate the effects of unpredictable hosting outages.
Andrew Raines | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I've used CloudFront in a number of different scenarios. Firstly as a standard Content Delivery Network, used as a edge-cache in front of the likes of S3. I've also used it in front of more dynamic services, allowing to amalgamate multiple services or behaviours under a single domain/cache. Finally I've also used it in conjunction with Lambda@Edge allowing for quite complex behaviours to take place, such as dynamically resizing images on the fly.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Amazon CloudFront boosted the loading speed of landing page of our application by 10 times. I use Amazon cloud front to load static css, javascript and images on landing page of our application. It is being used across the whole organization to solve the problem of assets caching. Amazon CloudFront primarily speeds up distribution of your static and dynamic web content by delivering the the content to through worldwide edge locations. Amazon CloudFront delivers data from the nearest edge location that provides the lowest latency and thus provide high speed data transfer for best permanence. Amazon CloudFront is my best choice among other CDN as it provides increased reliability and availability of files because copies of files are held in multiple edge locations around the world.
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