Amazon CloudFront Reviews (192)

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Amazon CloudFront Reviews (192)

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Users consistently praise the ease of use and fast content delivery of Amazon CloudFront, highlighting its seamless integration with other AWS services like S3. Many appreciate its ability to reduce latency and improve website performance, making it a reliable choice for content distribution. However, some users note that the setup can be complex for beginners, requiring a certain level of technical expertise.

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Powerful but relatively expensive"
4.5/5
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.
AK
Arjun K.
Senior Software Engineer
Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"One of the best, reliable and cheap CDN."
4.5/5
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
Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Use cloudfront for all kinds of web content"
5/5
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
Verified User in Retail
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Best way to dpeloy AWS infrastructure"
4.5/5
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
Verified User in Financial Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"no expectations "
4/5
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
Verified User in Computer Software
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"a great tool but it can improve"
4/5
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
Verified User in Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"CloudFront is effective for providing access to media across the globe"
4/5
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.

Jonathan G.
JG
Jonathan G.
System Architect
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Don't put in the wrong setting because it will break everthing"
2/5
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

I like that it's already integrated with other AWS services easily, but that's about it. It also seems very highly customizable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

It's really hard to use. Seriously. You really need to know what you're doing. I supposed you could always improve UI/UX, but I think that’s already pretty decent. I’m sure it could probably run faster too, but that’s still not that bad either. Amazon also keeps updating/changing their user interface, so we're having to re-learn how to set things up again periodically. Despite the redesigns, our CloudFront distributions continue to crash on us frequently and create problems when configured with DNS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Publishing
UP
Verified User in Publishing
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Cloudfront makes it easy to get a CDN up and running"
5/5
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

easy of use by just pointing it at an S3 bucket Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

nothing. service works great and does it's job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
CI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"AWS CloudFront"
5/5
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

For globally distributed applications it is essential to have a good CDN. CloudFront is just that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Ability to do stuff like image optimization at the edge would be nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.