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CloudFront has allowed us to speed up the website and allows us the ability to use the points of presence to get content faster to the users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The features are a little limited, such as your SSL and additional items. Support is also a little harder to reach, so you would need to reference online documents and forums for quick fixes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Amazon CloudFront is a CDN. To be honest, it's not the most features CDN on the market, but I personally believe it provides everything required for the majority of use cases at an affordable pricing.
It's easy to use, you can provision a new distribution in about 30 minutes, it perfectly integrates with Terraform, has 100+ point of presence across the globe and they recently introduced Lambda@Edge - that's the ability to run your functions (lambas) directly on CDN edges, opening anyone to edge-computing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It's hard to say what I dislike, since CloudFront is one of the best AWS services in my experience. Let's say I would enjoy more features on Lambda@Edge, to enable building more applications, like on-the-fly origin binary response manipulation (using a stream-like pattern). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is a very simple solution to implement and get up and running. All of the main features you would expect to exist are available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Some delays when clearing cache for items. The pricing can be confusing at first as you need to use a calculator to find out what your bill will look like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It has a lot of POP's and the integration with websites and custom developments it's easier and faster than with other CDN tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
That it doesn't suppor Brotli compression, just GZIP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Availability and scale are important. As a manager of an online video library, CloudFront allows us to host registration and payments on our own dedicated systems and store large files for video using S3 for CloudFront streaming while controlling access to it. I also like the offsite file storage capabilities. Having nearly unlimited bandwidth availability is key. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The only thing I dislike is some slowness in transferring a file into the edge CloudFront location if the file is large and is not regularly accessed from S3. I have not looked in the last year, but there was not an easy way to keep these files cached using a valid until type header reliably. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
