Amazon CloudFront Reviews & Product Details

Cloudfront is a good content delivery service from AWS. You can serve the request the fastest way using CloudFront edge location. We can also restrict user the content they can see using authentication. Cloudfront also can be deeply integrated with other AWS services like AWS sheild and web application firewall to protect you application from cyber attacks. The request made to CloudFront can be easily logged for further analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One thing I dislike about cloudfront is - it is an expensive content delivery solution. Also, it requires great skills to configure and intergrate other AWS service with it. Limited edge location available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like about CloudFront is reduced latency, and its features like traffic encryption and access control in security are excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing so far me to mention. Does its task as mentioned in the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the tight integration of CloudFront with other AWS Services e.g. S3, CloudWatch, Lambda@Edge and its large global network of 215 edge locations spread across 89 cities in 46 countries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- It's very complicated to set up and to deploy something on top of it.

- It's not user friendly

- All the components of CloudFront are distributed across various AWS Services.

- Pricing is higher as compared to other CDNs

- You can't add custom response headers in CloudFront, If you really want to do you can but then you'll have to use Lambda@Edge which will incur additional cost.

- Altogether there's only one thing that makes CloudFront popular is its Global network and Edge locations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon Cloudfront is a Global Content Delivery Network that replicates part of your application to AWS Edge locations decreases the latency. Also, it Cached the Common Requests, which further helps in improving user experience and reduces latency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon Cloudfront is a masterpiece, nothing to be disliked Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- easy to use

- cashing media and static files in the region level

- manage client traffic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- need to take subscription for use this service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Speed it serves from the edge locations. Responses are speedy. We hosted our files in cloud front and never faced a lag Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing so far, maybe they can improve the user interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Strong AWS incorporation: Amazon CloudFront is built with AWS Offerings like Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon Route 53 and AWS Elemental MediaServices as well as Elastic Load Balancing. Both functions are available from the same interface and can be programmed with APIs or an AWS Management Console.

Quick and Worldwide: The Amazon CloudFront Content Delivery Network (CDN) is highly scalable. The CloudFront platform has 217 presence points all around the world and utilizes strong Amazon network structure to provide optimal efficiency and flexibility to the end users.

Safety on the Top: Amazon CloudFront is a highly protected CDN that offers both server and device level security. Your data and apps benefit from a range of built-in security, such as the AWS Shield Standard, at no incremental fee. You can also use customizable functionality such as AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to build and maintain custom SSL certificates at no added expense.

Highly programmable and APIs and DevOps Software with complete availability: Amazon CloudFront delivers a completely functioning API for designing, configuring and managing your CloudFront deployments. In order to customize and deploy their workloads with Amazon CloudFront, developers also have access to many resources, such as AWS CloudFormation, CodeDeploy, CodeCommit and AWS SDKs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

High price: CloudFront is not cheap to use if price is the main concern. AWS charges you for instant assistance and you can pick each of the 3 products that are

1. Developer 2. Business 3. Enterprise

It is recommended to use CloudFront only for files where distribution time and speed are genuinely essential, such as assets for the marketing pages of your main website.

Total absence of transparency of the basic CloudFront framework.

Although Amazon offers a guide to maximizing CloudFront caching efficiency, you don't get a lot of transparency on precisely how cache operates in every area and every type of query. This results in less efficiency relative to a similar self-hosted system that you can customize to your specific use case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The static content of a website speeds up by caching the frequently access pages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It requires some learning to setup the cloudfront distribution. It's not straight forward just like creating an instance in EC2. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are so many things that Amazon is doing to make it's services easy and secure. The OAI feature is really good and a must use for security reasons. The way edge locations are placed covers all regions very well and delivers content from cache causing a faster response to customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The issue with creating invalidations in Cloud Front. It quickly scans and caches the data but the minimum time to expire is also too much. Hence, the data cached needs to be cleared manually by creating invalidations in the console. There should be a selective way to push data to certain edges only. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CloudFront is simple, flexible and works well together with other Amazon services, as is the case with most things on AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It may provide additional options for integration into cloud front of multiple resources or services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.