--- title: Amazon CloudFront Reviews meta\_title: 'Amazon CloudFront Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 192 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Amazon CloudFront works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 192 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Hosting url: https://www.g2.com/categories/hosting --- ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Cloudflare Application Security and Performance](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Cloudflare Application Security and Performance") Cloudflare Application Security and Performance 4.5/5(684) ](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudflare-application-security-and-performance/reviews) [ ![Bunny CDN](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Bunny CDN") Bunny CDN 4.8/5(512) ](https://www.g2.com/products/bunny-cdn/reviews) [ ![Google Cloud CDN](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Google Cloud CDN") Google Cloud CDN 4.4/5(110) ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-cdn/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-cloudfront/competitors/alternatives) # Amazon CloudFront Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Amazon CloudFront but has limited features. Are you part of the Amazon CloudFront team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service designed to securely deliver data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency and high transfer speeds. By caching content in a worldwide network of data centers called edge locations, CloudFront ensures that user requests are served from the nearest location, enhancing load times and reducing latency. Integrated seamlessly with other AWS services, CloudFront offers a scalable and reliable solution for content distribution. Key Features and Functionality: - Global Reach: CloudFront operates over 700 Points of Presence (PoPs) across more than 100 cities in 50 countries, ensuring rapid content delivery to users worldwide. - Security: It provides advanced security features, including SSL/TLS encryption, AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) integration, and protection against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks through AWS Shield. - Edge Computing: With CloudFront Functions and AWS Lambda@Edge, users can run code closer to end-users, enabling real-time processing and customization of content. - Real-Time Monitoring: Integration with Amazon CloudWatch allows for real-time metrics and logging, offering insights into content delivery performance and user engagement. - Cost Efficiency: CloudFront operates on a pay-as-you-go pricing model, with no upfront fees, and offers free data transfer from AWS origins, optimizing costs for businesses. Primary Value and Solutions Provided: Amazon CloudFront addresses the need for fast, secure, and reliable content delivery. By leveraging its extensive global network, it reduces latency and improves load times for end-users, enhancing the overall user experience. Its robust security measures protect applications from various threats, ensuring data integrity and availability. The integration with AWS services and edge computing capabilities allows businesses to build and deploy applications with greater flexibility and scalability. Overall, CloudFront empowers organizations to deliver their content efficiently and securely to a global audience. * * * Seller [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://www.g2.com/sellers/amazon-web-services-aws-3e93cc28-2e9b-4961-b258-c6ce0feec7dd) Discussions [Amazon CloudFront Community](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-cloudfront/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Sainived Mashetty Show More ## Typical Contract Price Pricing provided by BetterCloud and others. $$k - $$k Per Year [Log in to unlock pricing](/auth/linkedin?return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.g2.com%2Fproducts%2Famazon-cloudfront%2Freviews%3Ffilters%255Bnps_score%255D%255B%255D%3D1) ## User Insights Average based on 192 real user reviews. Implementation Time 1 month Perceived Cost $$$$$ Typical contract price $0k - $0k [Sign in to view](/login) Per Year [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## Amazon CloudFront Integrations (8) What do users say about integrations? 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RE Rune E. Strategic Media Positioning and Client Acquisition at AgencyDeluxe.com Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/23/2023 "TECHY CDN, too techy with Cloudfront" 1/5 What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront? So, the ability to USE AWS is charming, cuz' I use it already to host some files. And the speed is fast using AWS and S3. I trust the Amazon servers quite a bit so that is the good side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront? The downsides... Wow... This was a BIT too much to handle to be fair. When it comes to CDS, Like Cloudflare... Granted they host images and files that can be viewed and loaded from a webpage without taking up to much server resource. But, with Cloudfront, the initial setup is more than daunting. It is near impossible. Firstly, to even use Cloudfront to act as a CDN, we need to upload to AWS, and S3. This is not really advertised clearly at all. So we use S3 AND Cloudfront. When we are in Cloudfront, it is blatantly obvious that it is written by "geeks" and not for the common man. But more for a coder. So Using it as a CDN is more or less useless, unless you LOVE code. I consider myself technical, but I am not a coder. After mucking about for quite some time, 1-2 hours, I gave up and started to look at Google for tutorials, and there was little to find that was super clear and to the point in an abc fashion. One post I found, had a tutorial, which I will still look up and test, and this person, spent 5-6 HOURS to get it to work. He stated "Please use this, as I spent 5-6 hours to get it to work." More or less verbatim. And I believe him. So, while the notion of using AWS and Amazon S3 to host could be great, using CDN with Cloudfront, turns out to be more of a hassle than fun. I would urge people to steer away from that, unless they are really, coders by trade. Maybe even they will have challenges. That is how it is set up. Little info, little abc tutorials, technical jargons rule the platform. So, yeah, want it, but hard to get it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you? A reliable CDN for file hosting that eases server drag from a self-hosted website was the idea. That would be very beneficial. Still trying to get it to work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Wiktor .](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Wiktor .") W Wiktor . Software Tester Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/29/2018 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Still confused on what went wrong" 1/5 What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront? .................................................... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront? I've tried to setup a simple s3 hosted webside with some additional lambdas and I got to the point that I needed to configure https for the domain name. Cloud front was involved there. There an issue somewhere and I don't even know how to debug it. I mean : I've tried to use it for a simple thing and ive ended up reading a ton of documents and still don't understand what went wrong... Didn't make this https still because of it...no time left on this task for now... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you? None or minus 1$/month Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") AC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/26/2018 "Too complicated and hard to automate" 1/5 What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront? it's AWS so it can't be too bad. Also it can be easily automated with cloudformation or Terraform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront? Domain name stuff. We were trying to replace what we did in CustomDomainName api gateway and it wasn't easy to do in Cloud Front. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront: don't do it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you? API gateway could not restrict tls 1.2 so we had to use cloudfront. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 1 month ### Return on Investment 9 months ### Average Discount 8% ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-cloudfront/pricing) ## How much does CloudFront cost? Data powered by [BetterCloud](https://www.bettercloud.com). Estimated Price ### $$k - $$k Per Year Based on data from 5 purchases. 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