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Return on Investment

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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.

VP
Azure Administrator
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easily serve website with better security & performance"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

Amazon CloudFront, We have used it to host all the front end in the S3 bucket to serve. Integration was easy and quick which made to frequently use it. Fews of the Cons -

1) Features to reduce cost such as caching.

2) Faster loading of website which improves experience.

3) Better security with DDoS protection and SSL/TLS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Amazon CloudFront has a number of features that are quite tricky for beginners I have faced an HTTP 443 kind of error so troubleshooting those errors happens to be a pain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nir L.
NL
VP R&D
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Good deliverability and easy to maintain"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

AWS CloudFront is a strong, easy-to-use, CDN platform for delivering your website and content worldwide. We use CloudFront in front of our website to gain better performance on non-US locations and add an extra security layer before the website. CloudFront supports several configurations for the same origin, such as defining different caching or cookie strategies for different URLs or based on different cookies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

We could not find a way to do a rolled cache clearing and preemptive caching, which is important for high-traffic websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Afaq M.
AM
Information Technology Officer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Explore the AWS Cloud in Deeply"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

I like all the services of AWS and 4 years ago I learned about cloud computing and virtualization. When I search for these topics in detail most of the topics related to AWS and its cloud service include its network infrastructure, cloud services, storage, and computing service. After reading these things, I decided to learn all AWS services in Deep, and Now ALHAMDULILLAH I have 3 to 4 years of experience in AWS and I am certified in the most important courses of Amazon e.g. Intro to DevOps, DevOps on AWS: Code, Build & Test, AWS Cloud Technical Essential, Launch an Auto-Scaling AWS EC2 Instance VM, Exam Prep: AWS Certified Solution Architecture- Associate, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (DOP-C02) and some other also and Now I wish to become Amazon team member as Amazon Partner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Nothing Else...

AWS Cloud services are really wonderful as compared to other competitors e.g. Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lucas H.
LH
Project Manager
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"A solid CDN and a no-brainer for serving S3 content on the web"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

Connecting this to my S3 buckets was relatively painless, even though I'm not an experienced systems admin. There was no additional cost, since we simply paid for CloudFront transfers instead of S3 transfers. And speed is good if not blazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

I'm not sure that the speed gains were as dramatic as I might hope for, and my impression is that for content hosted off S3 the integration is a little more involved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sahil G.
SG
Lead Software Engineer (client)
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Use AWS CloudFront to distribute your data efficiently."
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

The ease of using this service, wide locations for low latency static data serving, effective pricing, and at last the ease of managing static data with AWS storage services are just the cherry on top. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Till now nothing much, price is bit higher. That's all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Time to Implement

1 month

Return on Investment

10 months

Average Discount

8%

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