We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudFront and IBM Cloud Video based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"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."
"If you're using AWS entirely, it's smooth sailing."
"The product provides reduced latency and quicker site refreshes."
"The product is very well interconnected with other Amazon services."
"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to deliver content to users nearby."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the speed of delivery."
"The distribution aspect of CloudFront and its ability to reduce latency are most beneficial."
"I like the user interface. There aren't too many buttons that the audience will have to fiddle with."
"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."
"The lack of seamless integration made the setup process more complex and required additional research to manage all the services properly."
"A lot of caching features must be added to the solution."
"There is room for improvement in customer service and support."
"The product could support any network load balancer. At present, we can use only Amazon’s load balancer application."
"I have utilized certain characteristics and invested effort in reading the documentation, which proved to be challenging."
"They could be expanding the number of locations available. It will help users easily access content."
"Sometimes, the server goes down automatically."
"They should improve the registration gateway. Currently, you can't do a pre-event registration that's straightforward. You have to do an API to integrate. It would be a lot easier if they had that."
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Amazon CloudFront is ranked 4th in CDN with 22 reviews while IBM Cloud Video is ranked 29th in CDN. Amazon CloudFront is rated 8.2, while IBM Cloud Video is rated 8.0. 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 IBM Cloud Video writes "Great user interface and easy to implement". Amazon CloudFront is most compared with Azure Front Door, Akamai, Cloudflare, Windows Azure CDN and Fastly, whereas IBM Cloud Video is most compared with .
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