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Compare Amazon CloudFront and Azure Front Door 
- Users report that Amazon CloudFront excels in static content caching with a score of 9.1, while Azure Front Door trails behind at 7.9, indicating that CloudFront is often preferred for delivering static assets quickly.
- Reviewers mention that Azure Front Door offers superior management features, particularly in its dashboard and reporting capabilities, scoring 8.8 in both areas compared to CloudFront's 7.9 and 7.6, respectively, making it easier for users to monitor and analyze performance.
- G2 users highlight that both platforms provide strong SSL support, but Azure Front Door slightly outperforms with a score of 9.3 compared to CloudFront's 9.1, suggesting a slight edge in security features.
- Users on G2 indicate that CloudFront's dynamic content routing is rated at 8.6, which is higher than Azure Front Door's 7.8, showcasing CloudFront's effectiveness in handling dynamic requests.
- Reviewers say that Azure Front Door shines in log management, achieving a score of 9.2, while CloudFront scores 7.9, indicating that users find Azure's logging capabilities more robust and useful for troubleshooting.
- Users report that both products integrate well with APIs, but Azure Front Door has a slight advantage with an 8.8 score compared to CloudFront's 8.7, suggesting a marginally better experience for developers looking to integrate these services into their applications.
- Easy setup for developers - Integrates well with existing data and applications hosted on AWS - Automatically streams video and website content at edge locations without any transcoding or difficult setup - Strong API interface if you need to automate...
Cloudfront is extremely, extremely slow to update settings. Most of the time it takes ~30 minutes to update a setting, and about 15 minutes to purge a cache. It's so slow that I sometimes wonder if there is someone running around Amazon with a printout that...
Azure Front Door is a global service with caching service where it can route requests to multiple endpoints and supports Out of box WAF rules that help in evaluating and blocking suspicious traffic with suitable regulations.
Pricing. Pricing was little too much in compare to other azure platform products.
- Easy setup for developers - Integrates well with existing data and applications hosted on AWS - Automatically streams video and website content at edge locations without any transcoding or difficult setup - Strong API interface if you need to automate...
Azure Front Door is a global service with caching service where it can route requests to multiple endpoints and supports Out of box WAF rules that help in evaluating and blocking suspicious traffic with suitable regulations.
Cloudfront is extremely, extremely slow to update settings. Most of the time it takes ~30 minutes to update a setting, and about 15 minutes to purge a cache. It's so slow that I sometimes wonder if there is someone running around Amazon with a printout that...
Pricing. Pricing was little too much in compare to other azure platform products.
