We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudFront and Verizon EdgeCast based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, Microsoft, Akamai and others in CDN."Feature-wise, I like the solution's signed URL because it provides security for me."
"The support team is knowledgeable."
"Amazon CloudFront is a stable solution."
"The AWS environment was very helpful in terms of integration."
"If you're using AWS entirely, it's smooth sailing."
"The solution has many features that are comprehensive."
"We can personalize a lot of things inside CDN."
"The product is very well interconnected with other Amazon services."
"The Rules Engine V4 is the most valuable feature."
"It's super easy to use and integrate with."
"The product is easy to use and easy to implement."
"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."
"I have utilized certain characteristics and invested effort in reading the documentation, which proved to be challenging."
"The solution could be more simplified for new users. It could be more user-friendly."
"Support needs to be enhanced."
"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."
"With a mixed stack, things become a problem. With GCP and Azure, the DNS setup gets tricky when using CloudFront."
"There is room for improvement in customer service and support."
"In the next release, I would like to see more global endpoints for their CDN and a lower price."
"The web interface of the Verizon Edgecast portal is very old. It's not user-friendly, slow, and it is missing some valuable features like the ability to make bulk changes."
"We could not create more than 15 custom rules."
Amazon CloudFront is ranked 4th in CDN with 21 reviews while Verizon EdgeCast is ranked 12th in CDN with 3 reviews. Amazon CloudFront is rated 8.0, while Verizon EdgeCast is rated 7.6. 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 Verizon EdgeCast writes "The product is easy to use and easy to implement, but we have to raise new feature requests frequently because the product is new". Amazon CloudFront is most compared with Azure Front Door, Akamai, Cloudflare, Windows Azure CDN and StackPath CDN, whereas Verizon EdgeCast is most compared with Akamai, Edgio Global CDN, Windows Azure CDN and Cloudflare.
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