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Time to Implement

1 month

Return on Investment

10 months

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Lowell J. H.
LH
Web Designing
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Cloudfront - safe, fast and easy to use"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

It is a complete CDN for all types of accommodation, has an unparalleled network, for delivery and distribution of content, at a unique speed in the market, thanks to the network servers Amazon has, this is something that is not found in no other platform claiming to offer cloud integration services, the transfer between the different servers is impressive, speeding up the content scale, in the different search engines, in this way we are always first in the searches that interest us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

It has a very complicated cache memory, I can not understand well, how this system ends in cloudfront, but always the files tend to give certain errors when they overlap each other, in a short time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Awesome Global CDN Solution, reducing costs & improving efficiencies"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

Measurably reduced load to our web servers, enabled our static content (web application) to be globally distributed to multiple endpoints around the world, instead of managing IIS web farms within a fixed location. Increased efficiencies and lowered hosting costs substantially. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

The delay when clearing the cache for a distribution, takes on average 15 minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JS
Associate Systems Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"CloudFront is incredibly easy to use, intuitive and puts us ahead of the game"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

The power and simplicy to set up and configure and the abundance of features and configuration granularity. The design seems to be very well "thought out". Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Honestly, I have not run into anything (as of yet) that I have disliked. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

GW
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Amazon CloudFront - Content Delivery Network"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

The Amazon CloudFront content delivery network takes into account the worldwide dissemination of computerized content through territorial focuses that work in significant business centers. It diminishes dormancy in getting to static and gushing information through its appropriated content delivery channels, which guarantee that the information is conveyed to the beneficiary from the closest CDN server. Amazon CloudFront is a compensation as-you-go display that can without much of a stretch be incorporated with all Amazon Web Services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

The price of Amazion Cloud front is very confusing and Technical support only available for an additional fee . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Emre T.
ET
Owner
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"One of the Fastest CDNs and good features with old UI"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

They have several CDN points all over the world. Good Cdn for our websites. I'm currenty use for my 7 websites. It has file (images, pdfs, videos etc) compression feature in the system too. You can find advanced use newest TLS 2018 But there is no POPs (points) on Turkey (Istanbul, Ankara etc.) although others have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

ui is old. maybe they should improve and use more user friendly UI. Current UI is complicated for first time users. you need to adjust. Purging option is not good, also it is hard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail
AR
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"CloudFront is a great CDN service"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

CloudFront is a great service to get someone started using a CDN. it's very friendly to use, has more and more features as time goes by, and actually is quite powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

it is not flexible enough, and like all other AWS services, there is no option to have any custom features of configurations done for a customer by the service team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Emil W.
EW
Architecture Manager of Digital Marketing
Automotive
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Cloudfront usage experience"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

Quick setup and implement. It may just take you 30mins to finish every set. And it also provides future scale-up flexibility as an economic solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Purge interface is not so friendly and not for none-engineer to operation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wiktor .
W
Software Tester
Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Still confused on what went wrong"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

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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.

Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Straightforward CDN provisioning for your AWS assets"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

Quick to set up and manage distributions. Easy to manage multiple storage environments or s3 buckets storing vastly different content (for example, static resources, or live streaming content with RTMP). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Not much, it's honestly a solid product. My only complaint is with AWS's handling of SSL certs for CloudFront (although this honestly affects many different Amazon products), DNS validation can be clunky and takes a while. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education
EH
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Does what it should and Easy to setup"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

The ease of getting setup. I also liked the ability to modify as needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

I understand the reason for it, but the wait time to deploy changes is 15 to 20 minutes. 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%

Perceived Cost

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