Amazon CloudFront Reviews

The product offers content delivery network services. For instance, you might have a couple of applications hosted in the AWS cloud that need to be accessible through various regions, to ensure low latency rates in every location, a CDE is utilized with Amazon CloudFront to achieve it. 

When you have a CloudFront solution, it may also require additional security components, which we support at our company with related web application firewalls and routing. I have experience in deploying multiple solutions on AWS as a consultant. In our company, we use eight to ten AWS solutions on a daily basis. Our company is a service provider for AWS. 

Edge configuration and availability are vital features for easy content drop-off requests. 

The policies and prices keep on changing frequently with AWS solutions, including Amazon CloudFront. One of the biggest challenges with Amazon CloudFront is their pricing policy, which if mishandled can land a user with huge bills. 

I have previously used Amazon CloudFront for five years, there was a gap in between when I was working on OpenStack, but I am back again with Amazon CloudFront for one and a half years. 

At our company, we have never witnessed downtime with Amazon CloudFront for the failover zones and regions for global servers. I would rate the stability an eight out of ten. 

I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten. Amazon CloudFront can meet all our company's scaling requirements. 

Our company received outstanding support from AWS for Amazon CloudFront. The quality of support depends on the license agreements. I would rate the tech support an eight out of ten. 

Positive

Before Amazon CloudFront, I used OpenStack with varying configurations for multiple locations. I switched to Amazon CloudFront as my new company prefers it. 

The Amazon CloudFront integrations that are available for our company's content delivery needs are well-driven through the applications. I personally have greater experience with AWS Command Line Interface than the front-end, I believe client commands can also be executed with Amazon CloudFront without any challenges. 

I would rate the initial setup a seven out of ten. The solution is not used daily in our organization. Amazon CloudFront is used in our organization as per the use case by utilizing the excellent documentation available for the tool. The content configuration is implemented using the documentation.

Our company has published numerous solutions using Amazon CloudFront, but few experiments were conducted until we came across outstanding research. I think it's smart enough to find the right solution at the right point to get it quickly deployed. A wide range of configurations are possible with Amazon CloudFront. The solution is majorly deployed for public content delivery. 

The pricing structure is complicated. 

The use case of Amazon CloudFront in content delivery processes depends upon the application front of our organization. All the applications have their own configuration and customer locations, where the company's team can input a couple of static or dynamic websites that require attention. Our organization's team depends on CDL to ensure that the cache is available to the customers. 

Amazon CloudFront has improved the global content delivery speed in our organization due to accelerated access. The solution can be locally hosted and managed. It's an excellent solution in terms of cost, technology, availability and reliability. Amazon CloudFront has extremely minimal downtime rates.

There are rarely any competitor management solutions that would have the same level of efficiency and advantages as Amazon CloudFront in our organization. The product isn't used in our company for heavy use cases such as live streaming, we use it for basic requirements from the customers. 

One of the solution's best features is logging and monitoring, which provides all the alerts on time. The aforementioned features ensure that the available services are not only up and running but resilient as well. The product deals with one-time configurations.

Except for a few difficulties in the initial days after solution deployment, we haven't faced any challenges with Amazon CloudFront in our company. As the core function of the tool, deliverables are fixed, and the cache manages them accordingly. I would recommend Amazon CloudFront to other professionals, depending on their budget. Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. 

I use this solution for image loading. 

The image loading process is easy and cost-effective too. 

Improvements are needed as per customer requirements.

I have been using Amazon CloudFront for four years. 

The cloud automation is created within minutes.

We use Amazon CloudFront as a monitoring tool. It helps us receive notifications and alerts for any issues or experiences within AWS. Amazon CloudFront and CloudWatch allow us to monitor production servers and detect issues. Additionally, the tool's global access capabilities ensure users worldwide can access content without failure. 

The tool is highly available and reliable. It helps to access server applications easily. Integrating Amazon CloudFront with other AWS services was very easy, I would rate it eight out of ten.

Amazon CloudFront is harder to understand compared to Azure. 

I rate the tool's stability a nine out of ten. It ensures the site is available globally without latency for 24 hours.

The technical support team from AWS is excellent. They provide very good support and are responsive to any issues we encounter on their cloud platform. If we face any problems, we can easily raise a ticket with the AWS team, and they assign an engineer to help resolve the issue. Overall, there are no issues with their support. Configuration issues can arise within our local technical team, which manages our cloud platform services for customers. In such cases, the AWS platform provides a reliable solution, ensuring a hundred percent resolution.

Positive

I used to work with AWS and Azure, and we provided cost comparisons for customers to help them choose the right services. Azure tends to be more user-friendly and easier to understand, while AWS may take more time.

I rate the overall solution a nine out of ten. 

I integrate CloudFront with my AWS S3 buckets to host my frontend app, specifically my React app, on S3 and provide access via CloudFront.

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.

The integration with the Access service and the ability to upgrade or use our own certificate are features I find very valuable. CloudFront also provides tools like CloudFormation, which enable us to write templates and provision resources on demand.

I would like to see an increase in distribution regions in Africa. There are currently only a few regions available.

I have been working with Amazon CloudFront for the past three years.

CloudFront is highly stable. I have not had any stability issues with the product.

Amazon CloudFront is quite scalable and able to adapt to our needs.

I rate the customer service a six. I have experienced communication issues, although not specifically with CloudFront.

Neutral

Before CloudFront, my projects were deployed on EC2. Prior to my position, the company used DigitalOcean but migrated to AWS for centrality of data.

The initial setup can be challenging without knowledge of CDNs, but with the right understanding, it’s quite straightforward.

I managed the deployment myself. I have automated the process using CloudFormation templates, allowing anyone to duplicate the setup using the provided codebase.

The primary ROI comes from CloudFront's stability and reliability. It effectively solves our problem of globally and securely hosting our applications.

I rate the pricing a six. Pricing is determined by usage, so there's less cost when there is less traffic.

Amazon CloudFront is a good product for hosting applications globally and securely. It offers features like geolocation restrictions and whitelisting for added security.

I use the solution for CDN.

We use the platform to deliver files and media across the world.

The speed and usability of the solution are valuable. It's part of AWS. It’s pretty useful.

The tool must provide regional control. It must provide features to allow only one region to reach the content via CDN.

I have been using the solution for six years. I am using the latest version of the solution.

I rate the tool’s stability a ten out of ten.

I rate the solution’s scalability a ten out of ten.

The tool is very easy to set up.

I have seen a 100% return on investment in the product.

The product could improve its price. People using the product must pay attention to what they are setting up. The cost can greatly increase if they do not take care of it.

Overall, I rate the product a ten out of ten.

Our developers developed something that needed cloud services and deployed it on the Amazon CloudFront server.

Amazon CloudFront is a stable solution.

Amazon CloudFront's pricing is a bit high, and we would appreciate it if they reduced it.

Amazon CloudFront's setup is a bit difficult, and we would love it if they made it easier.

I have been using Amazon CloudFront for the last six months.

Amazon CloudFront is a scalable solution. Four or five people are using Amazon CloudFront in our company.

Amazon CloudFront's initial setup is difficult, and it takes a lot of time to set it up.

Amazon CloudFront is an expensive solution.

I would recommend Amazon CloudFront to other users.

Overall, I rate Amazon CloudFront a seven out of ten.

The solution has many features that are comprehensive.

I have utilized certain characteristics and invested effort in reading the documentation, which proved to be challenging.

I have used Amazon CloudFront within the last 12 months.

The implementation was a bit difficult due to the documentation used. It would be beneficial to have a categorization in the documentation that aids understanding based on user expertise levels, such as beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Such a division would greatly assist startups like ours.

I rate Amazon CloudFront a seven out of ten.

I have been using Amazon CloudFront to create and then set up a signed URL, which is something I need for my project.

Feature-wise, I like the solution's signed URL because it provides security for me.

I don't know yet what can be improved in the solution. I don't have time to dig into it.

During the setup phase, there were some hiccups in terms of security, the user role, and the permissions. The aforementioned area can be considered for improvement.

I have been using Amazon CloudFront for one of my recent projects. I am a customer of the solution.

For scalability, considering AWS, I can say for the Docker container, I can launch multiple instances.

I haven't contacted customer support yet. I'd use online pages, YouTube, and all kinds of sources, but I won't prefer calling customer service directly.

The initial setup is straightforward.

I think everything in the solution looks fine to me because I've been back and forth between Azure and Amazon's UIs. So, I think I'm okay.

Since I haven't explored the solution yet, I rate the overall product an eight out of ten.