# Amazon CloudFront Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [Content Delivery Network (CDN) Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/content-delivery-network-cdn) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 191 ## About Amazon CloudFront 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. ## Amazon CloudFront Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find Amazon CloudFront's **ease of use** impressive, simplifying access to both static and dynamic website setups. (2 reviews) - Users find Amazon CloudFront **affordable** , appreciating its straightforward access and low-cost options. (1 reviews) - Users value the **easy integrations** of Amazon CloudFront, enhancing their overall experience with seamless connectivity. (1 reviews) - Users value the **security features and flexible configurations** of CloudFront, enhancing the protection of their applications. (1 reviews) - Users value the **free services** of Amazon CloudFront, enjoying easy access without significant costs. (1 reviews) - Users value the **robust security features** of Amazon CloudFront, ensuring safe global access to their websites. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **complexity of configuration** in Amazon CloudFront to be frustrating, especially for beginners. (2 reviews) - Users find the **domain limitations** of CloudFront frustrating, complicating setups and increasing debugging challenges. (1 reviews) - Users find Amazon CloudFront to be **expensive for small enterprises** , limiting accessibility and increasing implementation challenges. (1 reviews) - Users find Amazon CloudFront to have a **steep learning curve** , especially for those new to AWS and implementation. (1 reviews) - Users find the **multi-region cost complexity** burdensome, as it requires extensive planning and adds design overhead. (1 reviews) ## Amazon CloudFront Reviews ### 1. Great service - good cause **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Hiding S3 buckets. This is asking for far too many chars **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** Key setup This is asking for far too many chars **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** Beats Akami **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** CDN plus obfuscating S3 buckets ### 2. Cloud front is great **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** It is perfect for serving up single page apps! **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** Can kinda be a hassle to set up, not the most straight forward **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** Serving up The we appreciate ### 3. very good product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** It is very easy to configure and easy to scale. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** none. There is nothing I don't like cloudfront. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** We build our WCP landing page using cloudfront. ### 4. Cloudfront review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Security and Investigations | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Good response times. Distributed. Reliable. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** Hard to add custom headers. Nothing else I dislike. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** Distributing JS resources (CDN) ### 5. An easy to set-up and manage CDN that has a great price point **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** William P. | Customer Relations Manager, Retail, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** CloudFront has allowed us to speed up the website and allows us the ability to use the points of presence to get content faster to the users. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** The features are a little limited, such as your SSL and additional items. Support is also a little harder to reach, so you would need to reference online documents and forums for quick fixes. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** It's an easy system to use and operate. It may be lacking some features but overall it will meet the objectives for CDN files. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** The increasing geo-targeted and speed issues with our website. ### 6. Excellent CDN service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Amazon CloudFront is a CDN. To be honest, it's not the most features CDN on the market, but I personally believe it provides everything required for the majority of use cases at an affordable pricing. It's easy to use, you can provision a new distribution in about 30 minutes, it perfectly integrates with Terraform, has 100+ point of presence across the globe and they recently introduced Lambda@Edge - that's the ability to run your functions (lambas) directly on CDN edges, opening anyone to edge-computing. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** It's hard to say what I dislike, since CloudFront is one of the best AWS services in my experience. Let's say I would enjoy more features on Lambda@Edge, to enable building more applications, like on-the-fly origin binary response manipulation (using a stream-like pattern). **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** I strongly recommend CloudFront CDN. As an user since several years, and after comparing it with other solutions, I personally believe it's one of the best CDN solutions in the market. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use CloudFront for several use cases, including caching of web assets, distribution of audio files and DoS protection having it in front of our endpoints. ### 7. Use CloudFront to speed up your site with ease **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Gambling & Casinos | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** It is a very simple solution to implement and get up and running. All of the main features you would expect to exist are available. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** Some delays when clearing cache for items. The pricing can be confusing at first as you need to use a calculator to find out what your bill will look like. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** Once you understand how the AWS administration system works, you will have no problem setting this up. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** Speeding up serving images and other media. Save costs on bandwidth and able to serve media quicker to different geographical locations. ### 8. Great CDN! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luis E. | Consultor de Marketing Digital y Comercio Electrónico, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** It has a lot of POP's and the integration with websites and custom developments it's easier and faster than with other CDN tools. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** That it doesn't suppor Brotli compression, just GZIP. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** Great to have highly available content in the world. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** Static content availability for websites and developments. The main benefit is all the infrastructure that amazon has to make the content highly worldwide available. ### 9. CloudFront is Great **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aaron H. | Systems Administrator and Web Design Specialist, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Availability and scale are important. As a manager of an online video library, CloudFront allows us to host registration and payments on our own dedicated systems and store large files for video using S3 for CloudFront streaming while controlling access to it. I also like the offsite file storage capabilities. Having nearly unlimited bandwidth availability is key. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** The only thing I dislike is some slowness in transferring a file into the edge CloudFront location if the file is large and is not regularly accessed from S3. I have not looked in the last year, but there was not an easy way to keep these files cached using a valid until type header reliably. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** It takes some thought to set up security and what location you consider primary, **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** We save in infrastructure. In combination with S3, CloudFront makes our system is flexible and is minimized when not in use and can support a nearly unlimited number of customers when we need it without paying for the excess idle hardware. ### 10. Why we using CloudFront for our web service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tu V. | Java Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** The best thing I like in Amazone CloudFront is it delivery data from the server to clients is quite fast. Even how many concurrency users at the same time or where are the user's located. This will make your site increase the position of the result from the Google search. Amazone CloudFront is also very easy to setup. Just a few clicks and your static data is available anywhere in the world. For the developer, Amazone CloudFront SDK supports a large number of program languages so that you can easy to integration with your application. Moreover, Amazone CloudFont have a large community to help you if you have a trouble. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** The think I don't like in Amazone CloudFront is it just work with Amazone S3. So, If you want to use CloudFront, you must upload all your data into S3. Another thing is it take more time to distributed your data from S3 is quite slow. And to using CloudFront, you also need to know about the other service of AWS Stack, such as IAM or S3, etc **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** My company has some websites based on WordPress. They want to increase the position result from the Google Search, make their website as fast as possible. So, they decide to use S3 with CloudFront. It very easy to connect from Wordpress to CloudFront because it already has a plugin to do all of them for us. ### 11. Great tool **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** its every easy to use and comparable with other tools **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** takes a while to learn to use but once you get it its great **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** handing and storage of data ### 12. Amazon cloudfront review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Ease of use. Integrates with other AWS services. Good documentation. Customizable. Dashboard for logs and reports. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** Not much really ... it does what a CDN is supposed to do. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** hosting CDN. Facing static website with S3 with cloudfront. ### 13. Enterprise CDN At your Fingertips! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Love the integration with AWS s3 and the ease of setup. I also love the ability to have a worldwide presence instantaneously with some simple configuration. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** The inability to restrict the traffic to a specific group of IPs without an extremely high cost is a problem for us. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** Use with S3 for the easiest integration! Also provides the best flexibility! **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are serving small public files to millions of users and clients. These files are served from the location closest to the user/client from the closest CF endpoint. So efficient! ### 14. Infrastructure Simplified **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric C. | Engineering Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Cloudfront allows routing requests to different origins per path, which allowed us to dramatically simplify our infrastructure design. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** It has a lot of configuration options, but it would be nice to have a little more control out of the box. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloudfront helps us deliver content to our users faster, especially on the other side of the globe. The performance benefits of edge caching have undoubtedly helped us increase the reach of our marketing efforts and products. ### 15. Super easy to set up **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Super easy to understand and set up for everyone. Amazon provides enough documentation to help you out. Console is super friendly ui. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** Can get quite expensive so choose your setting wisely when setting up.q **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** just be careful of the costs before implementing. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** delivering media, s3 is not enough, its quite expensive plus can be latency. cloud front has lots of edge locations to eliminate the latency. ### 16. n excellent performance boost for your site. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Craig N. | Space Systems Architect & Pico Sat Architect, Computer Networking, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** The further your customers are from your data the longer the data takes to arrive, making your site appear to be slow. In the current world, customers are spread all over the place, which means that you need to distribute your data to multiple geographic locations in order to give everyone the same speed of access. This is a very costly thing to accomplish when dealing with the physical world, and is still a pain to configure when trying to integrate a random content delivery network with your network. Since CloudFront is an AWS service, it just works with S3 and EC2 perfectly. Along with providing a geographic caching service, CloudFront also lifts even more resources from your EC2 server, allowing you to save more money on processor and memory requirements. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** It does take a bit of research to get set-up properly, and even I had to make a few attempts at configuring the service before I had it operational. You will need to set-up S3, CloudFront, Distributions,and a few other things until the service works as imagined, but once it does, it is beyond expectations. I would say this is the hardest AWS service to configure, at least for me it was. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** DO a lot of research before hand, and utilize the Activate services provided by the AWS Loft if you are able to, especially one-on-One support with a Solution Architect and training on CloudFront. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving costs on needing geographically diverse locations, servers, storage, and etc, while providing and increase in speed and responsiveness to all of my customers, regardless of location, while reducing my EC2 costs by offloading more services that would be using resources. ### 17. Solid CDN that works great if you use Amazon services **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew G. | Director of Customer Experience, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Seriously simple CDN. We already host everything on AWS so using this was a breeze. We use it to deliver 720p resolution images to about 3M devices each week and it's never given us problems. Setting it up took no time and then it just works like any other asset link. We access them via a chromecast app and it's flawless. We manage everything in normal S3 buckets so literally the process is identical, we just drop files into the cdn folder in S3 and follow the links. No learning curve for anyone and nothing new to mess up, it's as seemless as it can be! **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** If you accidentally upload a wrong file or need to make changes your assets are immediately cached so you need to upload the edited version under a new name and re-deploy. Not the biggest issue but it would be great if there were a simple way to nuke the cache on the entire CDN but that's just not feasible! Need to just be precise and redeploy new links if a mistake is made. It happens sporadically. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** If you're already using AWS/S3 this will be the easiest tech implementation experience you've ever had! Yes you'll need to have been the one who set up S3 but it'll be super fast and easy and your asset load times will be SO MUCH BETTER. Try it, you'll love it. Did I mention it's super affordable, too? Just make sure to compress your stuff, we use WebP files for images. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** Rapid deployment and loading across multiple territories. We serve 2M+ users and that data needs to get there! ### 18. Excellent worldwide distribution for video content **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sheehan A. | Software Engineering Manager, Pro Team Services, Sports, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** - Easy setup for developers - Integrates well with existing data and applications hosted on AWS - Automatically streams video and website content at edge locations without any transcoding or difficult setup - Strong API interface if you need to automate setup or dashboards - Good API documentation and provided SDK's for custom development **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** - Vendor lock-in can be a turn-off to potential buyers. Moving off of CloudFront will require moving storage and routes. - Requires some knowledge of AWS stack. - Console interface is clunky and sometimes doesn't work - Cache lives long at times, and requires some configuration **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** If you are already invested in the AWS platform, CloudFront is an excellent choice as it integrates very well with S3. AWS also offers consolidated billing, so from a financial perspective all of your IT costs can be organized under a single LOB. As for the system itself, it does a great job of distributing your content to the regions you host your servers and where your customers live, worldwide. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** Distributing video content reliably can be expensive and require complex system setups. CloudFront handles the distribution and media streaming so that you can focus on your business applications. If you are already invested in the AWS stack, tight integration with S3 makes storage and distribution simple. ### 19. Simple to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Only need to pay for what you use so no hidden charges and costs for things that you aren't using!! **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** Pricing charges for http and https requests on top of the pay per use. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** With the pricing it can be used as an advantage towards the business and could save money in the long term. It allows for dynamic content to be delivered appropriately and professionally aswell as easily! The management console is a really good feature and used to monitor various stuff such as the resource usage and security. ### 20. Integrates really well with other Amazon services **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex F. | Freelance, Entertainment, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** It allows us to distribute the assets for our websites across the globe, meaning that wherever a user is, our assets are physically close to them. It means that they can pull down fonts, CSS, JS and images faster than our application servers could ever supply them. It integrates really well with the rest of Amazon's web services. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** I find the dashboard to be really complicated, and I wish that Amazon's management console did not force you to only be in one locality at a time - at times I would like to be able to see CDN servers from across the globe instead of just the ones in the region I happen to be logged into. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** I would also consider Akamai and other similarly priced CDNs if I did not use other Amazon web services. It is relatively expensive, and there are better options to be had outside the Amazon ecosystem. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** By using a CDN, our application servers and our data centres are now free to use their bandwidth serving the actual meat of the web requests without being bogged down by assets. It means that clients' sites load faster and more reliably. ### 21. Easy to implement cache and WAF layer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josh Q. | Lead AWS Systems Architect, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Very easy to setup a basic cache/CDN in front of an existing web platform. Good support for changing behaviors for different filetypes/locations/etc. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** We use the same setup for many different sites/accounts, but there is no way to copy an existing cloud front deployment (like for launch configs). Can use cloud formation, but no way to copy in the Console. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** Put it in front of your web servers, even if you don't use the caching. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** Originally we used Varnish with our websites. However, with load balancing there's no easy way to do Varnish HA. There is a Varnish cluster variant but it is VERY expensive. This also takes the load of the EC2 instances so sizing is no longer a consideration. ### 22. Cloudfront for software and web site availability **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Morten P. | COO, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** The ease of setting up Cloudfront and pushing out new updates is probably the feature I like the most about Cloudfront. It follows the pattern of the rest of the AWS stack, great administrative interfaces, easy to understand, quick to setup. As a bonus, you get a interface, showing you how the traffic is hitting on the different edge instances you have. These logs can also be easily obtained for use in your own tracking systems. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** I have at times experienced that the speed of download from the edges are slow, before a few downloads have happened. I have not investigated it any further, but it looks like the edge files are not cached or something similar until someone have actually requested them? When the files have been downloaded a few times, the speed is great and as expected. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** As with all AWS tools, this is easy and quick to set up. We would recommend you to have a central monitoring system to add the CloudFront logfiles into. This will enable you to get even greater value out of the information that CloudFront offers to you. I.e. use a tool like Kibana to be able to drilldown into the logfiles. ### 23. The ONLY cloud based content delivery framework. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** It's (relatively) easy to jump right in, like most Amazon products. It's an industry leader for a reason. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** The pricing models on some of the offerings can be confusing on a good day, and down right frustrating otherwise. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** Just look at all of Amazons cloud services. They are the industry leader for a reason. HIGHLY recommend. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** API publishing. I'd recommend Amazon to anyone, really any of their cloud offerings ### 24. Cloud services from the giant **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlos T. | Analista de Sistemas, Program Development, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Aws is a well known top service for everything in the cloud market. CloudFront makes an amazing cdn service that includes everything one would need to accelerate apps and websites. It has dns zones, various caching options and ssl security. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** It's a bit pricey compared to other not giant cdn services. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** Give it a try with the trial access, it can be difficult at the beginning but remember that this is a top quality service mostly aimed to big business. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** Website acceletarion, dns editing, content caching ### 25. Cloudfront has helped the company reduce load on our web servers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Laurent R. | Software Engineer, Events Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** It reduces the load on our web servers to load our static files such as images, javascript files, and css files. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** Caching can be a bit of a head-scratcher, especially when started off and not knowing about caching busting techniques **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** Definitely great for serving your static content. Make sure to use different names when replacing an image (or bust the cache), and use a cache busting technique for css and js files. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving the problems that we need to serve a lot of static files, but we do not want it to affect our web servers than are serving our websites. The benefits is that Cloudfront serves static files quickly, without touching our servers (most of the time), everywhere in the world ### 26. I have a year **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 26, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** It easy setup and the service faster for your website **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** At the moment I have no idea, maybe I need Cloudfront deploy to faster for live site **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** I need my website loading faster images for the world, so that I try use Amazon Cloudfront and I realize it really fast ### 27. CloudFront: A fast path to solve content delivery requirements. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Oscar A. M. | Director de TI, Food & Beverages, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** - Well designed administrative interface. - Intuitive UI. - Integrates easily with other Amazon services, (S3, Route, etc.). - Mainly for static media content. - The right amount of features for each kind of media supported. - **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** As sysadmin, sometimes we like to optimize and change some things under the hood of our infrastructure; but that can't be done with Amazon services directly without spend some effort. But there is a lot of documentation and customer forums that have almost enough information and cases of use. Another issue that I don't like is the rounding method use to bill the consumption of each service on Amazon platform. Google does that better. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** CF Is a great product, but you need to consider a lot before get it working. First you must integrate with your present workflow and develpment context, using the right tool on each one. Then how will be the deploy, manual or automated. ### 28. CloudFront clean and simple. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Holden T. | Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** It's pricing, simplicity and range of settings. It allows you to configure almost everything but you're not forced into doing so and can easily change the settings later. The pricing is the most straight forward of any other tool (other than Free cloudfront). **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** Asset ejection/expiration after 24 hours. Some settings are a bit magical and the docs lack detailed information. Stackoverflow is often necessary to figure out some hidden details such as how long objects linger before being ejected. Fastly will keep stale objects for up to 37 days but Cloudfront has a current maximum of 24 hours with no ability to prolong it. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** It's the best overall product in the market. Fastly has a few extra features but higher upfront fees. CloudFlare is a bit too much like magic unless you go enterprise. CloudFront is perfect for anything in between or what you would usually need. ### 29. Fantastic CDN for platform level delivery accelleration **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Justin S. | Full Stack Engineer, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Incredibly easy to setup, absolutely brilliant technology, it just works and works well. You can quickly deploy your S3 content to endpoints around the world, secure them with an SSL provided by AWS, and do virtually no extra work from a development standpoint. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** The cache invalidation can be tricky if you work in an environment where assets are updated. I would highly recommend versioning the files rather than updating them. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** You can start using this soon enough. I learning curve to deploy an Amazon S3 bucket to global edge locations was way lower than I was expecting **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** We've deployed large volumes of content for dozens of clients automatically and transparently. ### 30. Fast start with Amazon for startups **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dmitriy U. | Senior Go Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Simple interfaces, easy-to-use API. Interfaces helps to debug your integration and makes it transparently. SDK for a lot of languages. You can use your domain instead of S3/Cloudfront domain. Settings are very easy and completely explained in Amazon's documentation. Documentation is great. Community is really large, you can find a lot of answers in stackoverflow. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** Bills sometimes confusing - not easy to understand detalization for payment structure. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** It is a great solution for startups and prototypes. Pricing is not low, but (!) your start will be fast and easy with S3 & Cloudfront. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** User's data hosting. We are using Cloudfront for frequently used static content and S3 for other. Integration was fast and transparent. It was easy to divide dev / staging / live environments. ### 31. Awesome experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Armando R. | Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** What i really enjoyed is the free tier in the first year. This made me go for it instead of other options, so i can try it in a proper way. That way i can Analyse performance , costs, etc I've also read a lot about them against competition and most of the reviews were awesome. I also liked that i could "easily" install my WordPress website, without much hassle. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** Not really intuitive for beginners, but got used to in a short time after sorting out some wording and unique concepts. Trying to figure out which are the right options for a start can be slow at start. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** I think its really worth to give it a try. One year for free and the capacity of seeing how much it could cost after the trial is over its a ggreat way to capture new clients. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving money by providing free hosting to some of my content. Including my WordPress website which runs smoothly. Fast running servers helped me improve my website speed comparing to my previous host. Basically , the strong point is that they let it use for free so you can decide if it's really for you or your business ### 32. Super easy to setup & works like charm! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mudassir A. | Frontend Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Ease of setup & how well it works along side amazon S3. When I first wanted to use a CDN for my startup, it was pretty new concept to me but the amazon's introductory videos & guides help me easily setup. It might take a while for the CDN to start to take effect. But once it is done, you won't really have to visit that page again unless you need to reconfigure something. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** Not much I found to dislike about. Maybe because my use case is not that extensive. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** I needed a cdn for my startup where we have images for various milk products. I hosted all the product images on aws cloudfront. ### 33. CloudFront: The new definition of Awesome. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jay J. | SR Systems Engineer , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Honestly - damn near everything from A to Z. ACF has been a huge boon to us in terms of value and uptime. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** Cost. We all know disks are CHEAP these days, so you'd think that smaller cost would somewhere translate into the lower fees offered by other reputable companies. I think mostly you're paying for the Amazon name, backing the service more than the service itself. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** Consider your budget and potential growth for the next five years and match that against what Amazon and others offer. Yes, there ARE less expensive options, but you have to consider security of data as well and unlike SONY, who feels customer data is not worth protecting, Amazon makes sure you're covered left, right, top, bottom and diagonally. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** Uptime. Online businesses live and die on uptime. You lose access to data and you're dead in the water. Amazon Cloud has certainly made sure we notice nothing if there's a glitch. ### 34. CDN by Amazon! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Taylor P. | Cloud Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** As with all things AWS, it has a very powerful API that can tie in with your other AWS resources. It also has support for Amazon's ACM, which can provide free SSL certificates for your sites. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** Amazon doesn't have as many edge servers as some other CDN providers, and it doesn't have as much analytic information as other solutions. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** CloudFront is a good starting point for CDN if you are using other AWS services. There are other CDNs with more powerful features, but CF is a good place to start. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloudfront provides CDN features directly within the AWS environment. It is easy to provision and manage with automated tools, which reduces administration time. As a CDN, it reduces server load and speeds up content delivery to end users. ### 35. Great service **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** It is a neat service tighly integrated with Amazon Cloud. It is designed to further abstract away the details of the platform. You can simply upload a file to your website. The resources associated with the file are provisioned automatically, and scaling is handled by the system. If the event volume goes up, causing the file to be downloaded more often, more resources will be allocated; as volume drops, resources will be cut, possibly to zero. Assets are strictly pay-per-use, meaning that if a function isn't called, it costs nothing. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** User interface is not so great and power features can only be implemented with API calls. Invalidations are expensive, so it's better to drop the whole bucket. ... Other services simply have button to invalidate all and do not have a 1,000 invalidations limit to begin charging per invalidation. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** Amazon CloudFront must be implemented with any Amazon EC2 web server. It helps to distrute the processing load in a consistent architecture. Poke around the infrastructure of any small or medium website or mobile app these days, and you're bound to find something other than a web server and a database, a CDN is doing much of the heavy lifting, publishing static assets. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** Server network overload. Load distibution. The service really helps to reduce the load in a web application server. ### 36. Always on, amazing up time and customer service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anthony d. | Senior Account Manager, Marketing and Advertising, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** What I liked the best about Amazon web services is I never needed to follow up on anything after I did the initial setup. That is to say that the service works perfectly and has such little down time that I've never had any sort of issues. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** Honestly I've had nothing to dislike. In my experience with any sort of product like this, the more you have to deal with them the more of a headache everything is but as I stated before I think after setup I had 1 additional conversation when I wanted to bring them more business and that was it. Just a really seamless product and experience. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** I would go with it if you are even considering it. The pricing was a little more than some other competitors we were looking at but it was nice to know we had amazon's infrastructure behind everything. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** Content delivery, especially as it related to global content delivery. I think the biggest advantage amazon cloud front had over others was that they are a big name player with no minimum usage commitments. My client was in a very esoteric vertical so he had a unique scaling situation which amazon cloud front was perfect for. The other great thing is it integrates with amazon web services which my client was also utilizing at the time so adding on another line and service was pretty simple and straightforward! ### 37. Amazon can do a lot better then this **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel C. | Full stack developer, Broadcast Media, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Cloud Front provides really good performance compared to other platforms out there. it does come with a cost due. If you use other services of Amazon Web Services then this is a no brainer. The API is documented very bad but it works and it's flexible. The main advantage is the pricing, there is not competition right now that makes it as affordable as Amazon's Cloud Front. The only Good part of This is the API, they have it well wrapped in more the a few SDK's making the technical work with Cloud Front not so bad, assuming you are a programmer. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** Using this product is complicated like hell! you really need to know what you are doing or have a lot of patience. the documentation is endless and not clear at all. Also, Amazon is a company with a lot of resources, hire a UX person already! **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** You will probably use this because you were forced to. try and look at other options first. Try to look external tools that wrap around the API and make the use of this product a little bit less horrible. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Cloud Front for a few small business websites. I don't want to use it, but i have to because I need SSL for those websites and they are statically hosted on S3. Sometimes it seems easier to just start a simple instance and setup static file hosting using nginx on it then setting up Cloud Front. ### 38. Best CDN available in the market **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashok Kumar L. | Software Developer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Ease of setting up and configuring. It takes less than two minutes. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** Unable to predict the exact billing usage. The region wise pricing is different and is total due every month is unpredictable. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** MaxCDN **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes website load faster. The images/css/js loads from server near user location. ### 39. Painless integration with S3 and Custom SSL **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Guillaume A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Amazon Cloudfront gives me the ability to deploy my static website on a global CDN very quickly and very cheaply. Integration with S3 is immediate and easy, cache invalidation is a breeze using command lines tools and gives the ability to automate everything. With the recent addition of free Custom SSL every single thing a static site may ever need is integrated. All I had to do was configure my distribution one single time, copy my credentials to my deployment tool and now I can forget it even exists. For a non-programmer like me it's a breeze. And for a low volume website like mine it's nearly free. Like: - "No volume" Price - APIs - Free SSL **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** While Cloudfront is nearly free for near 0 volumes, the fees goes up very quickly. I think the ease of use makes up easily for the high fees for big users but if the only thing you are interested in with Cloudfront is the CDN part and you don't mind losing all the other tools and integrations that really make Cloudfront, then a pure CDN like Akamai or a custom solution will be much cheaper. Dislike: - Price when number of visitors suddenly surge - Rules system a little convoluted **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** I recommend Cloudfront to anyone considering creating a fully static website. It's the perfect use case. And now with Custom SSL it's much better than the altnernatives. ### 40. Great CDN and super affordable **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bradley H. | Chief Technology Officer + Co-Founder, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Cloudfront is about as good as you can get in the cost/performance ratio. Other competitors can compete in certain categories, but overall Cloudfront wins. I've been using it as my CDN for nearly every side project and company I've worked for in the last 6 years. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** The only real issue I have with cloudfront is the learning curve can be a bit high. AWS's control panel is a bit of a nightmare and figuring out stuff like setting permissions and TTL can take a while. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** If you need a faster CDN with a simpler interface and faster cache invalidation, check out Fastly, but be prepared to pony up the $... For general use, Cloudfront is awesome ### 41. Easiest CDN to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abdel K. | Sr. Cloud Engineering Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 14, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Regardless if your infrastructure is hosted on AWS or not, its so easy to get started. The integration with S3 makes it so simple to host all your data. The best part about it is that its all hands off and does not require a self hosted origin! **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** The interface is very very clunky. I think it could use a complete makeover. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** Host as much content as possible on S3. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used CloudFront to host static files for our website that was consumed by millions of users. We also used it to deliver live video feeds! ### 42. Performance and Features **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prakhar S. | Software Engineer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Initially though cloudfront seemed something simple to grasp on and deploy quickly. What might appear to be a daunting task is done pretty quickly by it. The documentation, AWS support along with AWS CLI is incredible combination for all our needs, being a developer or sys-admin. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** Sometimes the speed lacks way more than other competitors like those based on Akamai. Particularly for India, we sometimes do not get a competitive enough speed on page load time, where as people using Cloudinary seem to have a pretty good TTFB. HTTPS speeds using SNI also seem a bit slow, however our servers are tuned by hand for this, maybe you guys can provide more control there. Adding additional headers requires the source to support that, and these headers can't be easily managed in control panel. While this structure contributes to simplicity, i have seen many people drop Cloudfront as an option and moving towards other alternatives because of it. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** Cloudfront is a great CDN service, which can be flexibly targeted in a variety of circumstances. ### 43. excellent set of features **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeff M. | Data Architect, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** lots of different features can be applied and integrated into your AWS instances such as domain names for your instances and disk storage volume as well as load balancing **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** the user interface can be challenging sometimes and hard to find the information you require, also the customer service can be hard to reach and get responses. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** would recommend customers consider cloudfront but also compare it's cost of ownership against running development/test/QA servers in-house on cheap hardware, and also look at other providers such as exoscale and linode and heroku to compare costs **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** we run part of our business on AWS currently in order to cut our operating hardware costs., we also refer some of our customers to the AWS services when they are looking for cloud based solutions to run applications or databases ### 44. Not the easiest to set up, but does a great job at a reasonable cost **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John E. | Website Manager, Computer Hardware, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** low cost, high performance CDN backed by Amazon's massive infrastructure. Although not the easiest to figure out at first, Amazon provides solid documentation, and there is a wealth of other 'how-to' articles to be found online. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** Unless you work in opps/dev-opps, you might find the interface a bit arcane. I would have been lost without documentation and third-party how-to guides. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** Despite the initial learning curve, I see a lot of value for Amazon CloudFront. I use it primarily to help speed up static websites hosted on S3 buckets. With S3, Route 53, CloudFront and a good static site generating system (Jekyll or Middleman, for example) you can create a blazing fast website that will scale to a ton of traffic, if needed. At the same time, costs are reasonable. I can only comment on the benefit to small projects, but in that regard, CloudFront excels and is well worth the somewhat steep learning curve. ### 45. Powerful worldwide CDN **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephen T. | Full Stack Software Engineer, Internet, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Provides a powerful API Fairly painless setup Above average coverage and number of edge points **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** Getting caching to work as expected was not straight forward **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using cloudfront made it possible for my website to deliver static assets to users in distributed locations ### 46. Essential piece of AWS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tommy B. | IT Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** We like the way Amazon connect each services together. When you start using AWS, this is a no brainer to leverage all the different services since the API and integration have been designed to work in symphony. CloudFront is the easiest way to distribute your files all around the world, optimizing load time, and uptime. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** Understanding all the AWS Service may be painful when you don't know the service name and trying to achieve a goal. A lot of time reading before leveraging all the features... **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** No-brainer if you use AWS, one of the best for everything else. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since we have customer all around the world, classic hoster were not able to provide low latency/fast loading servers everywhere. With CloudFront, you don't have to worry, it is always fast. ### 47. A Versatile CDN from Amazon **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eduardo S. | Web Programmer, Wholesale, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 09, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Cloudfront is what one needs when using AWS, it has everything a cdn needs to have and only some steps of configuration. It serves files very fast, caching is outstanding, we are very happy with it. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** There are no things to dislike as it fulfills the expectations. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** Use it if you're using AWS, other than that you can just look for a cheaper cdn out there. **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** Content delivery, AWS integration, site protection, resources caching and worldwide support. ### 48. CloudFront is very fast and easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Cloudfront is very easy to use for things like caching static assets for rails applications. Its simple to configure, very fast and supports SSL. If you use rails in particular, it only takes a couple of steps of configuration to make it deliver asset-pipeline assets for you (JS, CSS, images). Dramatically improves performance, particularly for large payloads. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** If you want to use it for something not automatic, like Rails, it requires a bit of manual gumption. We use it to host static sites as well (based on s3 buckets) - that configuration is a little more complex. After the initial config its very easy though **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** Perfect for hosting static websites or adding a caching layer to an existing web application. Very inexpensive and fairly painless to configure. Rails asset hosting is painless, static website deployment requires a bit of scripting. Nothing too complicated. ### 49. Integrates Amazingly with s3 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Radek W. | Platfrom Architect (Python), Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** The ease of converting your s3 stored static content into a cloud front. Also that most of the heavy lifting and config is done by aws, as with most of their products. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** Can't say anything bad, maybe work on pricing structure more. I noticed with multiple of their services, the fees are always changing so it can be difficult to estimate cost. Good thing is prices are dropping. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** If you already use aws specifically s3, this is for you. Get up and running very quickly, for us was same day. ### 50. Performance CDN **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonas F. | System- und Netzwerk Administrator, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2016 **What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?** Very performant CDN including free SSL. You need to store a lot of files or assets which are under heavy load? CloudFront is the way to go since it automatically scales the necessary web servers for your needs. **What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?** The web interface is not that intuitive in my opinion. If you never worked with Amazon Web Services before, it can be quite overwhelming. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:** Take some time to get used to the Amazon Console. You'll get there! **What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?** Serving lots of big downloads for loads of people. - [View Amazon CloudFront pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-cloudfront/reviews?page=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-01+05%3A35%3A32+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=3ff64d18-f7c6-417c-86d1-38542106aa67&secure%5Btoken%5D=b3c5a8725a744ec5a748fac4e3d9c0b5cf8dce57fb25c3a80993eacd81a089f3&format=llm_user) ## Amazon CloudFront Integrations - [Amazon EC2](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-ec2/reviews) - [Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-ec2-auto-scaling/reviews) - [Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elastic-file-system-amazon-efs/reviews) - [Amazon Lightsail](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-lightsail/reviews) - [Amazon Route 53](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-route-53/reviews) - [AWS Auto Scaling](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-auto-scaling/reviews) - [AWS Lambda](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-lambda/reviews) - [AWS WAF](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-waf/reviews) ## Amazon CloudFront Features **Content** - Static Content Caching - Dynamic Content Routing - Cache purging **Agentic AI - Content Delivery Network (CDN)** - Proactive Assistance **Security** - SSL - Custom SSL **Management** - Dashboard - Reports - Logs **Integration** - API - CMS Integration ## Top Amazon CloudFront Alternatives - [Cloudflare Application Security and Performance](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudflare-application-security-and-performance/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (578 reviews) - [Bunny CDN](https://www.g2.com/products/bunny-cdn/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (472 reviews) - [Google Cloud CDN](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-cdn/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (107 reviews)