Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Verified User in Financial Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Simple, Cheap and Effective"
4/5
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
Luis C.
Sr. Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy to implement multi-region content delivery."
5/5
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
Verified User in Information Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Easy solutions for content distribution"
5/5
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There is nothing much to dislike about Cloudfront except an outdated UI.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
Will C.
Lead Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"CloudFront Review"
4.5/5
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
Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Cloudfront helps with website response times"
5/5
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
Verified User in Sports
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"good expireince on the CDN service"
4/5
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
Verified User in Computer Software
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Too complicated and hard to automate"
1/5
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.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
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.
"Content Distribution Network"
5/5
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
Verified User in Financial Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Good CDN"
4/5
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
Verified User in Information Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Great product. Easy to implement."
4.5/5
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.