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CloudFront is low cost and high impact!
March 28, 2018

CloudFront is low cost and high impact!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon CloudFront

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.
  • Integrates seamlessly with Amazon Web Service's asset storage solution (S3). If you've already committed to the AWS ecosystem, this synergism is one of the perks.
  • Easily allows for serving assets from custom domains.
  • Fine-grain control over caching logic and response headers. It's a simple, but very powerful interface.
  • It would be appreciated if there were more inline documentation regarding what some of the charts and menu options do. As this was my first time using a Content-Delivery Network, decreasing my need to do research elsewhere would be appreciated.
  • Our website loads much more quickly in other countries as a result of CloudFront. For example: loading cached assets from CloudFront in Australia is 4x as fast as it would be to load the same assets without CloudFront.
  • Very inexpensive service considering the value it brings.
If your website or web application has an international userbase it is important to use CloudFront to decrease the distance between your users and the assets that comprise your website or web application. If all of your users are located within a short distance of where you website is hosted, CloudFront will likely have little impact and is less appropriate.