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Time to Implement

1 month

Return on Investment

10 months

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Verified User in Entertainment
IE
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Faster sites, lower bandwidth costs"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

The ease to implement and also the savings incurred. We save a lot of money on bandwidth thanks to cloudfront as where we are based, bandwidth is very expensive. Serving our static content faster by being closer to the customer helps with one of the company values of giving the best customer experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Not always the best CDN for certain regions and other CDNs might be faster with lower latency. There is also no support for web sockets which is the biggest consumer of our bandwidth Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ryan A.
RA
Senior Developer
Computer Software
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Cloudfront review"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

It is very easy to set up, especially if your source is in S3. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

A single file is limited to 20GB, which in today's day and age, is insufficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SG
Director Engineering
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Great service"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

So easy to set it up for my use case of software image distribution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

It is not easy to figure out how to set up web server configuration on origin server (e.g. Apache, Nginix, etc). For example, I still haven't figured out how to set cache TTL policies on directory index generated by default on Apache 2.2 webserver Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Simple, Cheap and Effective"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

We have set up ci/cd for our deployment and we can deploy at any time of the day without affecting customers, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

It is not always easy to navigate thru the options we have to setup different seetings like for example adding new cache behaviors, i wish there was something in the console that would give you a quick example popup and a link Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LC
Sr. Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy to implement multi-region content delivery."
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

It's very easy to set up a multi-region content delivery endpoint for static websites or assets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

It would be nice if there's a centalized way to setup website/assets delivery using S3 + CloudFront, so far I've had to do this manually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Services
UI
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Easy solutions for content distribution"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

I love how easy it is to use Cloudfront + S3 to host a static website. This has alleviated a lot of pain points in hosting servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

There is nothing much to dislike about Cloudfront except an outdated UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

WC
Lead Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"CloudFront Review"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

The speed of retrieving cached items from CloudFront really helps our players get the data they need quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

The inability of the cache to be cleared instantly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism
AL
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Cloudfront helps with website response times"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

Faster page loads internationally with images served through Cloudfront. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

I have been very happy with Cloudfront and it performs well for me. I would like to have the option to make the subdomain of the url's for the image to be that of my main domain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Sports
ES
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"good expireince on the CDN service"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

it is simple to manage it, and it works.

overall in most places the exp. is good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

in Israel CF doesnt have good enough service

the distribution creation takes 30 min

and the system doesnt have enough server side analytics - for example users analytics like we have on player side, are not exposed to the servewr side Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Too complicated and hard to automate"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

it's AWS so it can't be too bad. Also it can be easily automated with cloudformation or Terraform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Domain name stuff. We were trying to replace what we did in CustomDomainName api gateway and it wasn't easy to do in Cloud Front. 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

$$$$$

How much does CloudFront cost?

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