Amazon CloudFront Support Reviews & Ratings 2024

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.

Pros and Cons

Manage CDN properly
Fast and reliable
Distributed across the world
Improved way to serve existing content from S3 or other origins
Allows customization at edge locations

Skillset required for deployment (initial learning curve)
Need more examples of different usages and all the options available
The UI is not intuitive at all
Talking about just price, CloudFront is not the cheapest

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited to start with a CDN within the AWS infrastructure, hosting static contents for web sites, and managing custom SSL certificates.

Return on Investment

Replicated across the world
Integrated with other AWS resources and services
Reliable (support of the AWS infrastructure)

Alternatives Considered

Cloudflare and CacheFly CDN

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.

Usability

Easy way to integrate a CDN within the AWS infrastructure. It allows further customization based on company needs.

Support Rating

There should be more examples on the different configurations, use cases, costs, etc.

Other Software Used

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Apache Tomcat, Couchbase

January 28, 2020

My experience using CloudFront

Fortune Nwaiwu

Business Analyst

Rothbadi & Co (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees)

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

It enables us to customize at the edge.
Deliver private content to our customers by using Lambda@Edge Customization's.

Cost of deploying solutions
Skillset required for deployment

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon CloudFront is well suited for accelerated static web content delivery.

Return on Investment

Improvements in service delivery to our customers.
Reduction of operating expenses associated with customer service delivery in terms of on-site hardware, which we no longer require.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft 365 Business

I find Amazon CloudFront to be better suited to my business needs in terms of robustness, agility and scalalbility of the solution.

Support Rating

Generally, Amazon provides excellent customer support for all its products, including Amazon Cloudfront.

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 Business, Azure Bot Service (Microsoft Bot Framework), Carbonite Backup for Microsoft Office 365

January 25, 2020

AWS CloudFront: Quick Way To Get A CDN. Great If You're Already Using AWS Services.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

E-Learning Company, 51-200 employees

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

Highly available content delivery.
Improved speed of content delivery to end users.

The token-based authentication is a little complicated to implement.

Likelihood to Recommend

If your content is vital to the product you sell, or if your content IS what you sell, then you need some kind of content delivery network service. You get redundancy at many levels, protecting you from outages. The speed of access to your content for your customers is improved and stabilized. You don't have to pay for all the hardware and technicians to get the infrastructure set up, which is a huge benefit. AWS tech support is very good in case you need assistance in setting up your CloudFront CDN. The best use for CloudFront is also as part of a 100% AWS-based infrastructure. AWS's services all work well together, but sometimes have issues with outside integration. If your content is not a big piece of your money-making operation, you can probably get away with something simpler.

Return on Investment

Overall ease of implementation was a huge benefit.
No need to make huge purchases to build out our own CDN.

Support Rating

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.

January 16, 2020

If you need a CDN and already use AWS, then Amazon CloudFront is a no brainier...

Bob Smith

Co-Founder, President, CTO

Infofree Sales Leads | Business Lists | Person Search & CRM101 (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

Allow you to create and manage your own CDN.
Improving performance of serving S3 content.

For new users, it could be easier to implement an initial stack.
Better tutorials on different configurations.

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon CloudFront is excellent for serving static content as objects are cached and reserved.
Dynamic content is more challenging because you lose some control as to what is being cached based on the access.

Return on Investment

Amazon CloudFront allowed us to scale our web presence for national TV campaigns.
Improve end-user experience when accessing content.

Alternatives Considered

CacheFly CDN

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.