Amazon CloudFront Reviews

Name: Amazon CloudFront
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4 (24 reviews)

Vendor: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

4.1 out of 5

24 reviews
100% willing to recommend

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What is Amazon CloudFront?

Amazon CloudFront is a global content delivery network (CDN) service that accelerates delivery of your websites, APIs, video content or other web assets. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services products to give developers and businesses an easy way to accelerate content to end users with no minimum usage commitments. Amazon CloudFront can be used to deliver your entire website, including dynamic, static, streaming, and interactive content using a global network of edge locations. Requests for your content are automatically routed to the nearest edge location, so content is delivered with the best possible performance. Amazon CloudFront is optimized to work with other Amazon Web Services, like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon Route 53. Amazon CloudFront also works seamlessly with any non-AWS origin server, which stores the original, definitive versions of your files. Like other Amazon Web Services products, there are no long-term contracts or minimum monthly usage commitments for using Amazon CloudFront – you pay only for as much or as little content as you actually deliver through the content delivery service.

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Amazon CloudFront is the #4 ranked solution in top CDN solutions. PeerSpot users give Amazon CloudFront an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. Amazon CloudFront is most commonly compared to Cloudflare: Amazon CloudFront vs Cloudflare. Amazon CloudFront is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 54% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a educational organization, accounting for 21% of all views.

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Featured reviews

Elham AlMoosawi

Global Business Client Partnership Management at Bahrain Telecommunication Company BSC (Batelco)

Our newest AWS connection was initially in Europe and we experienced very high latency. However, bringing it to Bahrain has drastically improved performance, not just for us but for all the regional operators connected to our ISN, including entities in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. The ultimate users…

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Guilherme Golabek Brein

IT Manager Consultant at Alvarez & Marsal

I've used CloudFront, as the company's CDN, to distribute content across better local servers to help the final user perform better The most valuable feature is the number of servers they can put your content in while being reliable. They are stable. It's a strong feature that helps distribute…

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Luis FernandoDos Santos

Software Developer 4 at WEX Inc. (NYSE: WEX)

I use the solution to expose fact files to have more latency. We expose the front end of applications using the product We can personalize a lot of things inside CDN. The product should be more intuitive. It should provide better descriptions of the fields. It can improve the cache and have some…

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Amazon CloudFront mindshare

As of July 2024, the mindshare of Amazon CloudFront in the CDN category stands at 9.0%, down from 12.0% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Last updated Jun 17, 2024

Valuable Features

"Edge configuration and availability are vital features for easy content drop-off requests"
"Its main advantage is that it offers something in this region that wasn't available before; previously, you had to go outside of the region to get the same level of service that you can now access right here in Bahrain. It's truly incredible. Building this IX has significantly changed how traffic is handled. The technical support is good.The initial setup is very straightforward. I rate the solution a perfect ten."
"The image loading process is easy and cost-effective too."

Room for Improvement

"The only issues we've faced were when AWS itself had problems, and that's very rare. I can only recall one instance when they had issues, but they managed to resolve it quickly."
"One of the biggest challenges with Amazon CloudFront is their pricing policy"
"Improvements are needed as per customer requirements."

Pricing

"The policies and prices keep on changing frequently with AWS solutions"
"The tool is affordable."
"We do not have many options to optimize costs."

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Educational Organization

21%

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

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Government

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University

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Energy/Utilities Company

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Non Profit

Transportation Company

Hospitality Company

Logistics Company

Recreational Facilities/Services Company

Legal Firm

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Pharma/Biotech Company

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Marketing Services Firm

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