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Time to Implement

1 month

Return on Investment

10 months

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Content Distribution Network"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

The best part of the service is to serve content to the customer at faster speeds. Helps with DDoS with integration with other service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

The cost if the product is very high compared to other products available in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Good CDN"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

Ability to customize the domain that assets display as being delivered from. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Integration can be difficult with decoupled systems but this is probably more of a weakness with the content creation service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Services
AI
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Great product. Easy to implement."
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

Easy to implement. Integrates well with other AWS services, like Elastic Load Balancing and WAF. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

While Lambda @ Edge solves some problems, it would be nice to have features similar to F5's iRules where you can route traffic based on headers, cookies, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Powerful but relatively expensive"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

Relatively easy to configure and well integrated with the rest of AWS services, which is a great advantage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

It can get pricey if you have enough traffic. For some apps we pay about half of the production cost on CloudFront alone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arjun K.
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Senior Software Engineer
Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"One of the best, reliable and cheap CDN."
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

One of the best feature of cloudfront is that it is part of the AWS ecosystem, has an amazing free tier, very east to setup and also supports https by default. Lambda at edge is another feature that makes cloudfront unique and functional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Cloudfront is very pocket frontly if you don't have a huge data transfer, once the data crosses several 100 TBs the prices go very high. Takes around 40 mins to setup, wish this would have been faster. Another downside is that cloudfront has fewer nodes compared to some other CDNs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
AH
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Use cloudfront for all kinds of web content"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

Eas of setup and the ability to set regional caching and control over sources. OAI with S3 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Speed of distribution going enabled could be faster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail
AR
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Best way to dpeloy AWS infrastructure"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

Simplicity of use and maintenance, while being fairly complete, simplicity to share artifacts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Different technology to learn (we are used to terraform), so it comes with a little bit of a learning curve Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
EF
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"no expectations "
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

the simplicity of use, it worked as expected Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

support on line using the frequently asked questions was not helpfull Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"a great tool but it can improve"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

easy to set up, efficient cdn, easier enforcement of https Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

modifying a distribution takes up to 1 hour to take effect without any feedback Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
CC
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"CloudFront is effective for providing access to media across the globe"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

I've used CloudFront before for providing access to media across multiple AWS regions, and it has improved latency for end users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Can't find anything I don't like about CloudFront at 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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