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.
"If you're using AWS entirely, it's smooth sailing."
"Feature-wise, I like the solution's signed URL because it provides security for me."
"The distribution aspect of CloudFront and its ability to reduce latency are most beneficial."
"Amazon CloudFront is a stable solution."
"The product provides reduced latency and quicker site refreshes."
"The speed and usability of the solution are valuable."
"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 web application firewall is a great feature."
"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."
"You can assign as many web application firewall policies as you want to the same instance of Front Door."
"I am impressed with the tool's integrations."
"The price is one of the most important aspects of the product. It's quite affordable."
"Rules Engine is a valuable feature."
"I particularly appreciate its load-balancing capabilities as it allows us to manage multiple instances and support a global presence effectively."
"Has a great application firewall and we like the security."
"A lot of caching features must be added to the solution."
"Sometimes, the server goes down automatically."
"With a mixed stack, things become a problem. With GCP and Azure, the DNS setup gets tricky when using CloudFront."
"Amazon CloudFront is harder to understand compared to Azure."
"The user interface could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in customer service and support."
"They could be expanding the number of locations available. It will help users easily access content."
"The solution can benefit from expanding its data center and server locations to multiple places for smoother content delivery with even lower latency. The latency we experience is sufficient for our needs, and we are doing well. However, if they expand their locations in the future, it could be a positive factor. Its competitors have multiple data and server locations."
"There's a limitation on the amount of global rules we can add."
"It lacks sufficient functionality."
"This is a relatively expensive solution."
"We should be able to use Front Door defenders with multiple cloud vendors. Currently, they can be used only with the Azure cloud. Azure Front Door should also be able to do global load balancing and provide internal front door services. Microsoft should clearly define what Traffic Manager, Application Gateway, and Azure Front Door products do. These are similar products, and people get confused between these products."
"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."
"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."
"The product needs to improve its latency."
"The user interface needs improvement as it is difficult to create the mapping to link the problem with your private address sources."
Amazon CloudFront is ranked 4th in CDN with 21 reviews while Azure Front Door is ranked 2nd in CDN with 10 reviews. Amazon CloudFront is rated 8.0, 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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