We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudFront and Cloudflare based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two CDN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the number of servers they can put your content in while being reliable."
"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 support team is knowledgeable."
"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to deliver content to users nearby."
"If you're using AWS entirely, it's smooth sailing."
"It is an expensive product with valuable features."
"The speed and usability of the solution are valuable."
"The distribution aspect of CloudFront and its ability to reduce latency are most beneficial."
"Centralized, full-featured DNS."
"It's very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare is the GUI. You are able to control the solution very well through the interface. There is a lot of functionality that is embedded in the service."
"DDoS attacks target unprotected machines. Cloudflare detects and stops these attacks using internal systems. It identifies incoming DDoS attacks, issuing challenges or blocking them immediately."
"The DDoS protection is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the web application firewall."
"From what I've seen so far, there are no negatives to report as of yet"
"I rate its stability a ten out of ten."
"The product should be more intuitive."
"I have utilized certain characteristics and invested effort in reading the documentation, which proved to be challenging."
"The tool must provide regional control."
"They should have more Edge locations so that CloudFront can be used much more. If they can make it a little bit cheaper and better than other networks, we will be able to use it more."
"Sometimes, the server goes down automatically."
"Amazon CloudFront's setup is a bit difficult, and we would love it if they made it easier."
"A lot of caching features must be added to the solution."
"There is room for improvement in customer service and support."
"The timing aspect can lead to it being considered overpriced. This is a particular concern we have with Cloudflare, as they may struggle with accurately detecting the client."
"Cloudflare's console should be made more user-friendly."
"Sometimes their more advanced caching tools can cause higher first-byte times and problems with JavaScript."
"I would like Cloudflare to offer a dedicated account manager for large enterprise clients like us."
"The solution could work at being less expensive. It costs a lot to use it."
"There should be a specific price list for enterprise-level customers."
"The product support needs to be accessible from more places, a wider area of coverage."
"We're facing challenges due to an upgrade in the machine learning model. The problem arises from some users abusing the APIs, resulting in an influx of suspicious traffic. Cloudflare's learning model mistakenly identifies this traffic as human. Consequently, it assigns it a higher trust score, akin to legitimate human traffic, causing complications in our architecture. Previously, such traffic would have been categorized as suspicious, enabling us to apply appropriate blocking rules. However, we encounter difficulties distinguishing between genuine and suspicious traffic with the new categorization. Despite these challenges, overall, Cloudflare remains the preferred solution compared to Azure, AWS CloudFront, and Google Cloud Armor."
Amazon CloudFront is ranked 4th in CDN with 21 reviews while Cloudflare is ranked 1st in CDN with 56 reviews. Amazon CloudFront is rated 8.0, while Cloudflare is rated 8.4. 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 Cloudflare writes "It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes". Amazon CloudFront is most compared with Azure Front Door, Akamai, Windows Azure CDN, Fastly and AWS Global Accelerator, whereas Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway. See our Amazon CloudFront vs. Cloudflare report.
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