Amazon CloudFront Reviews & Product Details - Page 12

It allows us to distribute the assets for our websites across the globe, meaning that wherever a user is, our assets are physically close to them. It means that they can pull down fonts, CSS, JS and images faster than our application servers could ever supply them. It integrates really well with the rest of Amazon's web services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I find the dashboard to be really complicated, and I wish that Amazon's management console did not force you to only be in one locality at a time - at times I would like to be able to see CDN servers from across the globe instead of just the ones in the region I happen to be logged into. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very easy to setup a basic cache/CDN in front of an existing web platform. Good support for changing behaviors for different filetypes/locations/etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We use the same setup for many different sites/accounts, but there is no way to copy an existing cloud front deployment (like for launch configs). Can use cloud formation, but no way to copy in the Console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease of setting up Cloudfront and pushing out new updates is probably the feature I like the most about Cloudfront. It follows the pattern of the rest of the AWS stack, great administrative interfaces, easy to understand, quick to setup. As a bonus, you get a interface, showing you how the traffic is hitting on the different edge instances you have. These logs can also be easily obtained for use in your own tracking systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have at times experienced that the speed of download from the edges are slow, before a few downloads have happened. I have not investigated it any further, but it looks like the edge files are not cached or something similar until someone have actually requested them? When the files have been downloaded a few times, the speed is great and as expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's (relatively) easy to jump right in, like most Amazon products. It's an industry leader for a reason. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The pricing models on some of the offerings can be confusing on a good day, and down right frustrating otherwise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aws is a well known top service for everything in the cloud market. CloudFront makes an amazing cdn service that includes everything one would need to accelerate apps and websites. It has dns zones, various caching options and ssl security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a bit pricey compared to other not giant cdn services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It reduces the load on our web servers to load our static files such as images, javascript files, and css files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Caching can be a bit of a head-scratcher, especially when started off and not knowing about caching busting techniques Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It easy setup and the service faster for your website Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At the moment I have no idea, maybe I need Cloudfront deploy to faster for live site Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Well designed administrative interface.

- Intuitive UI.

- Integrates easily with other Amazon services, (S3, Route, etc.).

- Mainly for static media content.

- The right amount of features for each kind of media supported.

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As sysadmin, sometimes we like to optimize and change some things under the hood of our infrastructure; but that can't be done with Amazon services directly without spend some effort. But there is a lot of documentation and customer forums that have almost enough information and cases of use.

Another issue that I don't like is the rounding method use to bill the consumption of each service on Amazon platform. Google does that better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's pricing, simplicity and range of settings. It allows you to configure almost everything but you're not forced into doing so and can easily change the settings later. The pricing is the most straight forward of any other tool (other than Free cloudfront). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Asset ejection/expiration after 24 hours. Some settings are a bit magical and the docs lack detailed information. Stackoverflow is often necessary to figure out some hidden details such as how long objects linger before being ejected. Fastly will keep stale objects for up to 37 days but Cloudfront has a current maximum of 24 hours with no ability to prolong it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Incredibly easy to setup, absolutely brilliant technology, it just works and works well. You can quickly deploy your S3 content to endpoints around the world, secure them with an SSL provided by AWS, and do virtually no extra work from a development standpoint. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The cache invalidation can be tricky if you work in an environment where assets are updated. I would highly recommend versioning the files rather than updating them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.