Amazon CloudFront Reviews

Name: Amazon CloudFront
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4.1 (34 reviews)

Vendor: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

4.1 out of 5

34 reviews
100% willing to recommend

336 followers

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What is Amazon CloudFront?

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.

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Amazon CloudFront is the #4 ranked solution in top CDN solutions. PeerSpot users give Amazon CloudFront an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. Amazon CloudFront is most commonly compared to Cloudflare: Amazon CloudFront vs Cloudflare. Amazon CloudFront is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 52% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a educational organization, accounting for 24% of all views.

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Featured Amazon CloudFront reviews

Parth Buch

Infrastructure Architecture at Capgemini

Hosting static content or with engineering dynamic content is beneficial. CloudFront provides a common access point, manages routing to different methods, and serves as an access point plus API routing. With AWS, maintenance is not required as it's a service offered by AWS which maintains itself. Security concerns are manageable through AWS's security mechanisms, with additional security enhancement possible through options like WAF and NACL.

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Elham AlMoosawi

Global Business Client Partnership Management at Bahrain Telecommunication Company BSC (Batelco)

Its main advantage is that it offers something in this region that wasn't available before; previously, you had to go outside the region to get the same level of service you can now access right here in Bahrain. It's truly incredible. Our customers are more interested in accessing CDNs and peering with each other. Moreover, building this IX has significantly changed how traffic is handled. It has enabled better regional connectivity and access to content, which was our main goal. It has saved us money and time.

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XYX ABC

Product Manager at Infozion

With a mixed stack, things become a problem. With GCP and Azure, the DNS setup gets tricky when using CloudFront. With AWS, it's smooth and streamlined. Their GUI provides all the details and is very easy to navigate. The challenge starts to occur because AWS gives you only one DNS endpoint for the entire service. This single endpoint covers your CDN, AWS server, and domain migration needs. If you use any other solution like GCP or Azure, you face additional configuration changes and account management. You need separate accounts for AWS CloudFront and your chosen platform, like GCP. This means securing and managing two separate accounts – an extra responsibility. With Cloudflare, you just need one account and pay for it. Managing the complex DNS details isn't your burden. However, on the flip side, CloudFront might require more hands-on management on your part.

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Amazon CloudFront mindshare

As of March 2025, the mindshare of Amazon CloudFront in the CDN category stands at 8.5%, down from 11.8% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PeerAnalyst reports based on Amazon CloudFront reviews

Type	Title	Date
Category	CDN	Mar 4, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Mar 4, 2025	Download
Comparison	Amazon CloudFront vs Cloudflare	Mar 4, 2025	Download
Comparison	Amazon CloudFront vs Azure Front Door	Mar 4, 2025	Download
Comparison	Amazon CloudFront vs Akamai	Mar 4, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Cloudflare	4.2	22.7%	95%	74 interviews Add to research
Azure Front Door	4.4	19.6%	100%	14 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"Hosting static content or with engineering dynamic content is beneficial."
"Amazon CloudFront provides valuable security by ensuring secure file access when accessing files from S3."
"The solution makes our platform fully accessible and available globally, helping us to ensure that our customers can rely on it being up and running."

Room for Improvement

"AWS is redesigning its user interface and user experience for CloudFront, and there is room for improvement in certificate management."
"It might benefit from multi-region support to enhance performance."
"I would like to see an increase in distribution regions in Africa. There are currently only a few regions available."

Pricing

"The policies and prices keep on changing frequently with AWS solutions"
"The tool is affordable."
"We do not have many options to optimize costs."

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Top industries

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Educational Organization

24%

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Government

Healthcare Company

University

Real Estate/Law Firm

Energy/Utilities Company

Retailer

Outsourcing Company

Insurance Company

Media Company

Construction Company

Transportation Company

Logistics Company

Non Profit

Hospitality Company

Recreational Facilities/Services Company

Performing Arts

Legal Firm

Marketing Services Firm

Consumer Goods Company

Pharma/Biotech Company

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