Amazon CloudFront Reviews & Product Details - Page 14

Cloudfront is about as good as you can get in the cost/performance ratio. Other competitors can compete in certain categories, but overall Cloudfront wins. I've been using it as my CDN for nearly every side project and company I've worked for in the last 6 years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only real issue I have with cloudfront is the learning curve can be a bit high. AWS's control panel is a bit of a nightmare and figuring out stuff like setting permissions and TTL can take a while. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Regardless if your infrastructure is hosted on AWS or not, its so easy to get started. The integration with S3 makes it so simple to host all your data. The best part about it is that its all hands off and does not require a self hosted origin! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interface is very very clunky. I think it could use a complete makeover. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Initially though cloudfront seemed something simple to grasp on and deploy quickly. What might appear to be a daunting task is done pretty quickly by it.

The documentation, AWS support along with AWS CLI is incredible combination for all our needs, being a developer or sys-admin. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes the speed lacks way more than other competitors like those based on Akamai. Particularly for India, we sometimes do not get a competitive enough speed on page load time, where as people using Cloudinary seem to have a pretty good TTFB.

HTTPS speeds using SNI also seem a bit slow, however our servers are tuned by hand for this, maybe you guys can provide more control there.

Adding additional headers requires the source to support that, and these headers can't be easily managed in control panel. While this structure contributes to simplicity, i have seen many people drop Cloudfront as an option and moving towards other alternatives because of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

lots of different features can be applied and integrated into your AWS instances such as domain names for your instances and disk storage volume as well as load balancing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the user interface can be challenging sometimes and hard to find the information you require, also the customer service can be hard to reach and get responses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

low cost, high performance CDN backed by Amazon's massive infrastructure. Although not the easiest to figure out at first, Amazon provides solid documentation, and there is a wealth of other 'how-to' articles to be found online. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unless you work in opps/dev-opps, you might find the interface a bit arcane. I would have been lost without documentation and third-party how-to guides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Provides a powerful API

Fairly painless setup

Above average coverage and number of edge points Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Getting caching to work as expected was not straight forward Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We like the way Amazon connect each services together. When you start using AWS, this is a no brainer to leverage all the different services since the API and integration have been designed to work in symphony.

CloudFront is the easiest way to distribute your files all around the world, optimizing load time, and uptime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Understanding all the AWS Service may be painful when you don't know the service name and trying to achieve a goal. A lot of time reading before leveraging all the features... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cloudfront is what one needs when using AWS, it has everything a cdn needs to have and only some steps of configuration. It serves files very fast, caching is outstanding, we are very happy with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are no things to dislike as it fulfills the expectations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cloudfront is very easy to use for things like caching static assets for rails applications. Its simple to configure, very fast and supports SSL. If you use rails in particular, it only takes a couple of steps of configuration to make it deliver asset-pipeline assets for you (JS, CSS, images). Dramatically improves performance, particularly for large payloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you want to use it for something not automatic, like Rails, it requires a bit of manual gumption. We use it to host static sites as well (based on s3 buckets) - that configuration is a little more complex. After the initial config its very easy though Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease of converting your s3 stored static content into a cloud front. Also that most of the heavy lifting and config is done by aws, as with most of their products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can't say anything bad, maybe work on pricing structure more. I noticed with multiple of their services, the fees are always changing so it can be difficult to estimate cost. Good thing is prices are dropping. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.