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Return on Investment

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Users consistently praise the ease of use and fast content delivery of Amazon CloudFront, highlighting its seamless integration with other AWS services like S3. Many appreciate its ability to reduce latency and improve website performance, making it a reliable choice for content distribution. However, some users note that the setup can be complex for beginners, requiring a certain level of technical expertise.

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Srikanth R.
SR
Senior Software Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Streamlining Content Delivery with Amazon Cloudfront"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

The aspect that I appreciate most about Amazon Cloudfront is its exceptional performance, facilitated by its extensive network of edge locations worldwide. our users experience minimal latency resulting in faster load times and enhancing user satisfaction. Additionally, its seamless integration with AWS services streamlines the content delivery process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

The learning curve for configuring and optimizing Amazon Cloudfront may pose a challenge for beginners. Beginners might find the initial setup somewhat daunting although AWS provides ample resources to ease the learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aman P.
AP
fullstack developer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Enhanced Security and Blazing fast delivery CDN solution"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

Amazon cloudfront can be easily integrated with different services like S3,Lambda etc.It helps or boost other aws services and decreases the latency and delivers delightful expirence by providing the data in less time.

AWS cloudfront takes less time to serve the content to the user by using intelligent routing technique like by serving the data form the nearest server.

AWS cloudfront also supports ssl/tls certificates for https requests. It secures the content between users and edge locations with cloudfront built in ssl/tls support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

It is somwhat complex for begineers and also need to calculate the cost as per traffic before using aws cloudfront, because the costing in cloudfront can quickly add up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Deep N.
DN
Technology Analyst
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Best option as a content delivery network - Amazon Cloudfront"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

It is one of the best option available in the market to deliver content to the end users with a very low latency. The transfer speed is very high and this is the vital point to provide positive user experience all around the world.I like all the security features provided by the amazon cloudfront,and the best part is its scalability. It is highly scalable and easily handle large spikes in incoming traffic. Also I can easily integrate amazon cloudfront with S3 and EC2. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Setting up the Cloudfront and managing it can be complex for a beginner. You must have had prior knowledge to use it.Otherwise there is nothing such to dislike about Amazon Cloudfront. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rune E.
RE
Strategic Media Positioning and Client Acquisition at AgencyDeluxe.com
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"TECHY CDN, too techy with Cloudfront"
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.

Parth  P.
PP
Full Stack Developer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Deliver Content Like Speedy Gonzales"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

Speed - Deliver content with lightning-fast latency, no matter where your users are.

Reduce origin loads and speed up delivery.

Price -The pay-as-you-go price model makes it economical for the early-age startup

Geo-targeting - One of the best features I use in the production is targeting the audience based on the location.

Reliability - As an AWS product, there is no need to think about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Understanding AWS pricing can feel like a chore, almost an unfair burden.

Can not create Distributions without SSL.

It's easy to use, but it is too complex for a beginner to configure the distribution for the best performance with comprehensive pricing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Korla G.
KG
Open source contributor
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Cloud front for react app"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

AWS Cloud Front is content delivery network which is used to cache the most frequent data from web app hosted in S3/EC2 whatever the source to the nearest location possible from the user there by delivering the response fast. Iam trying to explain my experience with cloud front. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

As Iam beginner to AWS Cloud Front there is nothing I disliked about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aagam V.
AV
Software Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"One of the best Content Delivery Network"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

AWS Cloudfront scales well and has edge locations in all parts of the world. It provides fast invalidations and is a good tool for hosting static content over the web. We used it in a multitenant application alongside ACM to generate & host lots of domains on the fly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

We have been using AWS Cloudfront on production projects and haven't had any problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RM
Owner
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Awesome, efficient and cost effective CDN."
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

Cloudfront is the first CDN wr used, and we never felt the need to switch back over to any other provider. Cost is naturally one of the main considerations when using cdns on sites with heavy traffic, lots of hits/access etc and Amazon Cloudfront is by far one of the most affordable solutions out there.

Other things I loved - the Lightsail version of Cloudfront (same as CF, but a super easy interface) is one of the easiest to use and set up and works just as efficiently as regular CF.

Their ability to serve protected downloads via their system (through private keys on one's server) is another superlative feature - integrated with many an other software solution which just increases the robustness of the service.

Cannot say enough good things about Cloudfront! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Their interface is complex to use (regular CF, not Lightsail) - they could make that easier to use for non technically inclined folks. Their documentation is pretty extensive tho, so I'm not really sure if that's a "negative" but it's by far the only one I can think of - if at all! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MW
Owner
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Pretty effective , does what it says."
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

Great way to speed up websites etc by serving static objects and digital downloads through Amazons extensive cloud server base globally. Site load times can drasticslly improve by using Cloudfront to serve images and other static "objects" (such as digital products sold through ones site as we used it for) as opposed to serving them directly off the server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Extremely complex and not an intuitive system to use at all for the layperson. That said, their documentation is very extensive but again, the general layout and interface might could be made a lot easier to use for non technical minded folks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shivangani  T.
ST
DevOps Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Best Content Delivery Network in Market"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

- Its caching performanceat at the different edge locations in all over the world

- It improves the read performance by caching the content of your website at the different edge locations. As your content is cached all around the world, then your users all around the world will have a lower latency,and this will improve the user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

- It has very limited origins options.

- its cost for India region is high as comparison to other region Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Time to Implement

1 month

Return on Investment

9 months

Average Discount

8%

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