Amazon CloudFront vs Edgio comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Edgio are both solutions in the CDN category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.2, while Edgio is ranked #8 with an average rating of 7.7. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 10.0% mindshare in CDN, compared to Edgio’s 3.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Edgio users who would recommend it.

Amazon CloudFront

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100% willing to recommend

Edgio

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1,164 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

Amazon CloudFront

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudFront and Edgio 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.

To learn more, read our detailed Amazon CloudFront vs. Edgio Report (Updated: October 2024).

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Amazon CloudFront vs. Edgio

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon CloudFront

Ranking in CDN

4th

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Edgio

Ranking in CDN

8th

Average Rating

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Replication (12th), Web Application Firewall (WAF) (30th), Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection (22nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the CDN category, the mindshare of Amazon CloudFront is 10.0%, down from 12.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Edgio is 3.0%, down from 3.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

XYX ABC

Product manager at Infozion

Top-notch in terms of customer service and offers pay-as-you-go model with a free tier

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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Eduardo Oviedo-Blanco

CTO and Game Developer at Solospace

A CDN solution to enhance loading times and streamline navigation

When one of the primary nodes spanning from North to South America, from the northern US to the southern US, became operational, it had a big impact. It can be challenging to explain its advantages to clients. The technical nature of the marketing material is too technical for stakeholders. Integrating the solution was straightforward, requiring no extra effort. Edgio Global CDN operates, resembling familiar cloud services but offering elevated functionality. Unlike platforms such as Google Cloud Platform or RIN geared towards development teams, Edgio emphasizes client-facing services that are integral to our operations. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

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

"The support team is knowledgeable."

"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."

"It is an expensive product with valuable features."

"The solution improves performance by reducing latency and cost."

"It is stable."

"The solution has many features that are comprehensive."

"It has built-in DDoS protection, which protects against DDoS attacks."

More Amazon CloudFront pros

"It's super easy to use and integrate with."

"The Rules Engine V4 is the most valuable feature."

"The product is easy to use and easy to implement."

"The tool's most valuable feature is the Uplynk platform for streaming purposes."

Cons

"Amazon CloudFront is harder to understand compared to Azure."

"There is room for improvement in customer service and support."

"The user interface could be improved."

"CloudFront could improve in the areas of auto-scaling, reports, and insights. End clients desire more detailed reports to understand usage patterns better."

"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."

"Support needs to be enhanced."

"During the setup phase, there were some hiccups in terms of security, the user role, and the permissions."

"A lot of caching features must be added to the solution."

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"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."

"The tool needs to resolve its lack of innovation."

"We could not create more than 15 custom rules."

"In the next release, I would like to see more global endpoints for their CDN and a lower price."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We do not have many options to optimize costs."

"I rate the product's pricing an eight out of ten. The licensing follows a pay-as-you-go model."

"The product has a mid-range pricing."

"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."

"Its price is really on the high side. It should be cheaper in general."

"Amazon's pricing varies depending on the data transfer."

"The tool is affordable."

"The solution’s price is reasonable."

More Amazon CloudFront pricing and cost advice

"Be careful about the options because to have all the features can be very expensive."

"The product is cheaper compared to other solutions."

"When I modeled it out, we are spending somewhere between $600 to $800 a month with Verizon EdgeCast."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

24%

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

How do I choose between AWS Global Accelerator and Amazon CloudFront?

Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether Amazon’s Web Service Global Accelerator or Amazon CloudFront global content delivery network was the better fit for us. We decided to go w...

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What do you like most about Amazon CloudFront?

The solution has good security features.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon CloudFront?

CloudFront is relatively cheap and worth the money.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Edgio Global CDN?

The product is affordable.

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What needs improvement with Edgio Global CDN?

The tool needs to resolve its lack of innovation.

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What is your primary use case for Edgio Global CDN?

We use the solution for high volume traffic. It is used across various e-commerce platforms to enhance loading times and streamline navigation, ultimately optimizing user experience.

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 30% of the time

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Compared 16% of the time

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Compared 14% of the time

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Compared 10% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Product Reports

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Also Known As

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Limelight Content Delivery, Limelight Orchestrate Delivery, Limelight Origin Storage, Global CDN, Verizon EdgeCast

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Edgio

Overview

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.

Edgio helps build and deliver secure web apps across the globe in milliseconds. Our fully programmable edge network offers comprehensive services to maximize security, performance availability and site operations.

All services run at the edge of our private, global network with 250 Tbps of bandwidth capacity. We process 5% of all web traffic and are rapidly growing. Edgio is trusted and relied on by TD Ameritrade, Plus500, Solvay Bank, Yahoo, Deckers Brands, and Coach.

We offer two best-of-breed CDN services, depending on your needs:

Global CDN: Ranked as one of the fastest and largest CDNs on earth – our private global network gives you the reliability, bandwidth, and compute capacity to support the most demanding media and software downloads worldwide.

Next-Gen Web CDN: Natively unify fundamental web application services for protection, acceleration, and development. Our web CDN enables better coordination, management and visibility across your web and API properties.

Sample Customers

Unilever, Spotify, Pinterest, MLB Advanced Media, Foursquare, PBS, Airbnb, Netflix, WIX, Comcast, Automobili Lamborghini, Rovio, Discovery Communications

TD Ameritrade, Plus500, Solvay Bank, Yahoo, Deckers Brands, and Coach

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Amazon CloudFront vs. Edgio

October 2024

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