Amazon CloudFront vs Azure Front Door comparison

Amazon CloudFront

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 6, 2024

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.

To learn more, read our detailed Amazon CloudFront vs. Azure Front Door Report (Updated: July 2024).

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon CloudFront

Ranking in CDN

4th

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Azure Front Door

Ranking in CDN

3rd

Average Rating

8.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Web Application Firewall (WAF) (9th), Microsoft Security Suite (16th)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the CDN category, the mindshare of Amazon CloudFront is 9.0%, down from 12.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Azure Front Door is 21.7%, up from 19.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Web Application Firewall (WAF)

5.7%

Microsoft Security Suite

2.5%

Featured Reviews

ChamatKhan

Infrastructure manager

Jan 5, 2024

A CDN solution that has rich documentation and resources

The tool's deployment is easy. For inexperienced resources, I rate deployment difficulty an eight out of ten. For me, it's nine point five out of ten. The product comes with a vast amount of resources and documentation. We had a deadline of one and a half months. However, we could go into production within four weeks, i.e., 25 days. Deployment includes quality assurance and staging processes. One resource is enough to handle the deployment process. The person responsible for deploying the solution should know CI/CD processes. They should understand security compliance, gate methodologies, and the functioning of code push and pull. Familiarity with Webhooks and the dashboard of AWS CodePipeline or check kits is necessary. Once the setup is done, the tool doesn't require frequent changes. Two resources are needed for maintenance, and one would be enough later.

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Renato Roque

Azure Cloud Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 28, 2023

Seamless global application delivery with features like efficient load balancing, web application firewall and robust traffic routing capabilities

It serves as the primary means for our organization to make applications accessible securely over the internet. While we do have specific requirements for load balancing, our primary focus is leveraging it to securely and exclusively expose our applications to the internet We rely on external…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"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."

"If you're using AWS entirely, it's smooth sailing."

"The support team is knowledgeable."

"The beneficial feature for the entire AWS community is the presence of edge location servers. These servers are strategically located in multiple locations, allowing efficient content delivery from the nearest server."

"The image loading process is easy and cost-effective too."

"The most valuable feature is the number of servers they can put your content in while being reliable."

"The solution has many features that are comprehensive."

"The tool is highly available and reliable. It helps to access server applications easily. Integrating Amazon CloudFront with other AWS services was very easy, I would rate it eight out of ten."

More Amazon CloudFront pros

"You can assign as many web application firewall policies as you want to the same instance of Front Door."

"The web application firewall is a great feature."

"Has a great application firewall and we like the security."

"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 am impressed with the tool's integrations."

"I particularly appreciate its load-balancing capabilities as it allows us to manage multiple instances and support a global presence effectively."

"The price is one of the most important aspects of the product. It's quite affordable."

"The solution is good."

More Azure Front Door pros

Cons

"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."

"The support must be improved."

"I have utilized certain characteristics and invested effort in reading the documentation, which proved to be challenging."

"The tool must provide regional control."

"Amazon CloudFront is harder to understand compared to Azure."

"There is room for improvement in customer service and support."

"Amazon CloudFront's setup is a bit difficult, and we would love it if they made it easier."

"The lack of seamless integration made the setup process more complex and required additional research to manage all the services properly."

More Amazon CloudFront cons

"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."

"This is a relatively expensive solution."

"There's a limitation on the amount of global rules we can add."

"The user interface needs improvement as it is difficult to create the mapping to link the problem with your private address sources."

"It lacks sufficient functionality."

"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."

"There is room for improvement and they're working on it."

"My suggestion for improvement would be to enhance the Data Export feature to include specific tables, particularly the Azure Diagnostics table."

More Azure Front Door cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The policies and prices keep on changing frequently with AWS solutions"

"The solution’s price is reasonable."

"I rate Amazon CloudFront's pricing a five out of ten."

"For CloudFront, I'm quite satisfied with the pricing. Initially, it doesn't require many resources for this specific solution."

"Compared to competitors like Azure and Google, we find AWS pricing to be advantageous."

"Amazon CloudFront costs less than third-party services."

"Amazon CloudFront is an expensive solution."

"The tool is affordable."

More Amazon CloudFront pricing and cost advice

"It is on a pay-as-you-go basis."

"The transition to the premium tier has led to increased costs, making it more expensive than the classic tier."

"The solution is a bit expensive."

"The product is expensive."

"The pricing of the solution is good."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

21%

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

How do I choose between AWS Global Accelerator and Amazon CloudFront?

Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether Amazon’s Web Service Global Accelerator or Amazon CloudFront global content delivery network was the better fit for us. We decided to go w...

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What do you like most about Amazon CloudFront?

The solution has good security features.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon CloudFront?

The pricing structure is complicated.

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What's the difference between Azure Front Door and Application Gateway?

We found Azure Front Door to be easily scaled and very stable. The implementation is very fast and Microsoft provides excellent support. Azure Front Door can quickly detect abnormalities before the...

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What do you like most about Azure Front Door?

Rules Engine is a valuable feature.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Front Door?

The transition to the premium tier has led to increased costs, making it more expensive than the classic tier. However, we acknowledge that this pricing reflects additional features and capabilities.

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Overview

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.

Azure Front Door is a global, scalable entry-point that uses the Microsoft global edge network to create fast, secure, and widely scalable web applications. With Front Door, you can transform your global consumer and enterprise applications into robust, high-performing personalized modern applications with contents that reach a global audience through Azure.

To learn more about our solution, ask questions, and share feedback, join our Microsoft Security, Compliance and Identity Community.

Sample Customers

Unilever, Spotify, Pinterest, MLB Advanced Media, Foursquare, PBS, Airbnb, Netflix, WIX, Comcast, Automobili Lamborghini, Rovio, Discovery Communications

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