We compared Amazon CloudFront and Azure Front Door based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Amazon CloudFront and Azure Front Door both offer valuable features such as efficient content delivery, scalability, and seamless integration with other services. However, Amazon CloudFront emphasizes reliability, easy setup, and transparent pricing, while Azure Front Door focuses on powerful security measures, robust monitoring capabilities, and a user-friendly interface. More comprehensive tutorials and simplified pricing structures are requested by CloudFront users, while Azure Front Door users desire improved stability and error handling features.
Features: Amazon CloudFront stands out for its unmatched reliability, quick setup, seamless integration with Amazon Web Services, extensive global network, and efficient content delivery. On the other hand, Azure Front Door excels in efficiently managing traffic, strong security measures, scalability, high availability, seamless integration with Azure services, simplified content delivery, enhanced performance, and robust monitoring and analytics capabilities.
Pricing and ROI: The setup_cost of Amazon CloudFront does not involve any upfront fees, providing a cost-effective choice. Users find the licensing terms straightforward and transparent, allowing ease and flexibility. On the other hand, feedback on Azure Front Door includes discussions on pricing, setup costs, and licensing experiences., Amazon CloudFront users reported a positive ROI with improved website performance, faster content delivery, cost-effectiveness, and scalability. Azure Front Door also offered a positive ROI with enhanced performance, traffic distribution, cost-effectiveness, and ease of integration with Azure services.
Room for Improvement: Amazon CloudFront has room for improvement in terms of reliability, uptime, documentation, pricing structure, and customization options. On the other hand, Azure Front Door needs to focus on performance, user-friendliness, error handling, troubleshooting, customization, and security.
Deployment and customer support: Based on user reviews, deploying and setting up Amazon CloudFront can take up to three months for some users, while others completed the process within a week. Azure Front Door also has varying durations, with some users taking three months for deployment and setup, while others took only a week., Amazon CloudFront's customer service is highly praised for its promptness and efficiency. Users have commended the knowledgeable and friendly support staff for resolving issues. Azure Front Door also receives positive remarks for its efficient and helpful assistance, resulting in a satisfying customer experience.
The summary above is based on 18 interviews we conducted recently with Amazon CloudFront and Azure Front Door users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The product provides reduced latency and quicker site refreshes."
"The image loading process is easy and cost-effective too."
"We can personalize a lot of things inside CDN."
"Amazon CloudFront is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the number of servers they can put your content in while being reliable."
"The speed and usability of the solution are valuable."
"The support team is knowledgeable."
"The solution has good security features."
"The most valuable feature is that you can implement resources globally. It does not depend on location and ability or something like that. This is to connect clients around the world."
"Has a great application firewall and we like the security."
"The solution is good."
"I am impressed with the tool's integrations."
"It inspects the traffic at the network level before it comes into Azure. We can do SSL offloading, and it can detect abnormalities before the traffic comes into the application. It can be used globally and is easy to set up. It is also quite stable and scalable."
"I particularly appreciate its load-balancing capabilities as it allows us to manage multiple instances and support a global presence effectively."
"The web application firewall is a great feature."
"You can assign as many web application firewall policies as you want to the same instance of Front Door."
"Improvements are needed as per customer requirements."
"Sometimes, the server goes down automatically."
"The solution could be more simplified for new users. It could be more user-friendly."
"Amazon CloudFront can improve by accurately determining the latency of a non-defined URL that the solution encounters."
"During the setup phase, there were some hiccups in terms of security, the user role, and the permissions."
"I have utilized certain characteristics and invested effort in reading the documentation, which proved to be challenging."
"There is room for improvement in customer service and support."
"Amazon CloudFront is harder to understand compared to Azure."
"It lacks sufficient functionality."
"I'm responsible for the governance and cost control of Azure. I'm not a specialist in any products and therefore I couldn't really speak effectively to features that are lacking or missing."
"There is room for improvement and they're working on it."
"The product needs to improve its latency."
"The product's features are limited compared to Cloudflare. The tool also doesn't work well in a hybrid environment. I would like to see a way to add personalized APIs in the system."
"My suggestion for improvement would be to enhance the Data Export feature to include specific tables, particularly the Azure Diagnostics table."
"The user interface needs improvement as it is difficult to create the mapping to link the problem with your private address sources."
"This is a relatively expensive solution."
Amazon CloudFront is ranked 4th in CDN with 22 reviews while Azure Front Door is ranked 2nd in CDN with 10 reviews. Amazon CloudFront is rated 8.2, while Azure Front Door is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudFront writes "Top-notch in terms of customer service and offers pay-as-you-go model with a free tier". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure Front Door writes " An easy -to-setup stable solution that enables implementing resources globally and has a good technical support team". Amazon CloudFront is most compared with Akamai, Cloudflare, Windows Azure CDN, Fastly and AWS Global Accelerator, whereas Azure Front Door is most compared with Cloudflare, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Akamai, AWS Global Accelerator and Azure Firewall. See our Amazon CloudFront vs. Azure Front Door report.
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