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One of the fastest CDN you can opt in!
In fact, you van mever go wrong with AWS services or their services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It's not that I dislike it, but if the pricing could still be lowered? That'll be a bigger impact for small time web dev like me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Quick and easy integration with Amazon S3. If you already using S3 then adding a CDN with Cloudfront is very straight forward. CloudFront has plenty of points of presence around the world and the price isn't bad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
CloudFront is very basic. it provides edge caching of your assets on their servers, but does not come with any extras such as image/video optimization or automatic file type selection based on client browser. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cloudfront uses the large global network of Amazon of 205 edge locations to distibute and delivers cache content where the end-user is based. The best part is it also integrates with a lot of other AWS services, which makes it an obvious choice for those already using other AWS services. It also supports dynamic content as well as custom SSL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The initial learning curve can be high for skillset deployment and the price is a bit on the higher side compared to its competitors. The UI and configuration can be also be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Firstly it is effortless to use for anyone interested in CDN. The quick setup process and easy distribution of your web content are also great support by amazon Cloudfront teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Firstly I would say that about negatives, price centric is a little bit high and should provide more features about security such as custom made headers were not straightforward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Many organizations and MNC's are getting profited of Amazon CloudFront, as it offers secured, reliable and faster service especially during live streaming. The contents delivered across the internet are highly protected and encrypted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The main point which i dislike in Amazon CloudFront is that, not more technological stacks can be used. And even if any technical support is needed, the assistance fee is comparatively greater than other web services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
AWS CloudFront is a global content delivery network used in AWS to improve the read performance, and content is cached at the edge location. There is around 216 Point of Presence edge locations available globally. CloudFront can access/cache the data from any origins such as S3, Application Load Balancer, EC2 instances. Origin Access Identity is enhanced security. CloudFront uses this OAI feature to access the files from the Private S3 buckets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
As of now, there are no dislikes and downsides for this product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon Cloudfront is known for its fast delivery and connectivity with the S3 bucket. Within your AWS eco system, you can use CloudFront for delivering static data. The speed is a plus point, and the ease of uploading and replacing the content is just unmatched with other tools present in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Recently I tried some other tools. They are good and have some enhanced features also. The only thing where I compromise a little is with the pricing and some elements like on the go crop or do some recognization on uploaded images, which some tools are offering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cloudfront is a good content delivery service from AWS. You can serve the request the fastest way using CloudFront edge location. We can also restrict user the content they can see using authentication. Cloudfront also can be deeply integrated with other AWS services like AWS sheild and web application firewall to protect you application from cyber attacks. The request made to CloudFront can be easily logged for further analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
One thing I dislike about cloudfront is - it is an expensive content delivery solution. Also, it requires great skills to configure and intergrate other AWS service with it. Limited edge location available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like about CloudFront is reduced latency, and its features like traffic encryption and access control in security are excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Nothing so far me to mention. Does its task as mentioned in the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the tight integration of CloudFront with other AWS Services e.g. S3, CloudWatch, Lambda@Edge and its large global network of 215 edge locations spread across 89 cities in 46 countries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- It's very complicated to set up and to deploy something on top of it.
- It's not user friendly
- All the components of CloudFront are distributed across various AWS Services.
- Pricing is higher as compared to other CDNs
- You can't add custom response headers in CloudFront, If you really want to do you can but then you'll have to use Lambda@Edge which will incur additional cost.
- Altogether there's only one thing that makes CloudFront popular is its Global network and Edge locations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.