Amazon CloudFront Reviews & Product Details - Page 13

Simple interfaces, easy-to-use API.

Interfaces helps to debug your integration and makes it transparently.

SDK for a lot of languages.

You can use your domain instead of S3/Cloudfront domain. Settings are very easy and completely explained in Amazon's documentation. Documentation is great.

Community is really large, you can find a lot of answers in stackoverflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bills sometimes confusing - not easy to understand detalization for payment structure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What i really enjoyed is the free tier in the first year.

This made me go for it instead of other options, so i can try it in a proper way. That way i can Analyse performance , costs, etc

I've also read a lot about them against competition and most of the reviews were awesome.

I also liked that i could "easily" install my WordPress website, without much hassle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not really intuitive for beginners, but got used to in a short time after sorting out some wording and unique concepts.

Trying to figure out which are the right options for a start can be slow at start. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of setup & how well it works along side amazon S3. When I first wanted to use a CDN for my startup, it was pretty new concept to me but the amazon's introductory videos & guides help me easily setup. It might take a while for the CDN to start to take effect. But once it is done, you won't really have to visit that page again unless you need to reconfigure something. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much I found to dislike about. Maybe because my use case is not that extensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Honestly - damn near everything from A to Z. ACF has been a huge boon to us in terms of value and uptime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cost. We all know disks are CHEAP these days, so you'd think that smaller cost would somewhere translate into the lower fees offered by other reputable companies. I think mostly you're paying for the Amazon name, backing the service more than the service itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As with all things AWS, it has a very powerful API that can tie in with your other AWS resources. It also has support for Amazon's ACM, which can provide free SSL certificates for your sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon doesn't have as many edge servers as some other CDN providers, and it doesn't have as much analytic information as other solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a neat service tighly integrated with Amazon Cloud.

It is designed to further abstract away the details of the platform. You can simply upload a file to your website. The resources associated with the file are provisioned automatically, and scaling is handled by the system. If the event volume goes up, causing the file to be downloaded more often, more resources will be allocated; as volume drops, resources will be cut, possibly to zero. Assets are strictly pay-per-use, meaning that if a function isn't called, it costs nothing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

User interface is not so great and power features can only be implemented with API calls.

Invalidations are expensive, so it's better to drop the whole bucket. ... Other services simply have button to invalidate all and do not have a 1,000 invalidations limit to begin charging per invalidation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I liked the best about Amazon web services is I never needed to follow up on anything after I did the initial setup. That is to say that the service works perfectly and has such little down time that I've never had any sort of issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Honestly I've had nothing to dislike. In my experience with any sort of product like this, the more you have to deal with them the more of a headache everything is but as I stated before I think after setup I had 1 additional conversation when I wanted to bring them more business and that was it. Just a really seamless product and experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cloud Front provides really good performance compared to other platforms out there. it does come with a cost due.

If you use other services of Amazon Web Services then this is a no brainer.

The API is documented very bad but it works and it's flexible.

The main advantage is the pricing, there is not competition right now that makes it as affordable as Amazon's Cloud Front.

The only Good part of This is the API, they have it well wrapped in more the a few SDK's making the technical work with Cloud Front not so bad, assuming you are a programmer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Using this product is complicated like hell! you really need to know what you are doing or have a lot of patience. the documentation is endless and not clear at all.

Also, Amazon is a company with a lot of resources, hire a UX person already! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of setting up and configuring. It takes less than two minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unable to predict the exact billing usage. The region wise pricing is different and is total due every month is unpredictable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon Cloudfront gives me the ability to deploy my static website on a global CDN very quickly and very cheaply. Integration with S3 is immediate and easy, cache invalidation is a breeze using command lines tools and gives the ability to automate everything. With the recent addition of free Custom SSL every single thing a static site may ever need is integrated.

All I had to do was configure my distribution one single time, copy my credentials to my deployment tool and now I can forget it even exists. For a non-programmer like me it's a breeze. And for a low volume website like mine it's nearly free.

Like:

- "No volume" Price

- APIs

- Free SSL Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While Cloudfront is nearly free for near 0 volumes, the fees goes up very quickly. I think the ease of use makes up easily for the high fees for big users but if the only thing you are interested in with Cloudfront is the CDN part and you don't mind losing all the other tools and integrations that really make Cloudfront, then a pure CDN like Akamai or a custom solution will be much cheaper.

Dislike:

- Price when number of visitors suddenly surge

- Rules system a little convoluted Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.