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Amazon CloudFront Overview

What is Amazon CloudFront?

Amazon CloudFront is a web service for content delivery. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments.

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Amazon CloudFront is a web service for content delivery. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments.


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Year Founded
2006
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NASDAQ: AMZN
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Lucas H.
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Lucas H.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"A solid CDN and a no-brainer for serving S3 content on the web"
Connecting this to my S3 buckets was relatively painless, even though I'm not an experienced systems admin. There was no additional cost, since we ...
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Vipul P.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Easily serve website with better security & performance"
Amazon CloudFront, We have used it to host all the front end in the S3 bucket to serve. Integration was easy and quick which made to frequently use...
Ashwini B.
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Ashwini B.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Cloudfront user review"
This helps to reach our website globally all over world and make scalable to user for different domain. We can easily integrate this in our system ...

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

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.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

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.

What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?

I do not see it as much as a problem but more on if the pricing would be lower, that would hell out web masters like me significantly! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

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.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

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.

What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?

CloudFront provides a simple-to-use CDN and is very affordable, especially when tied with Amazon S3. CloudFront worked very well for our e-commerce website to speed up the delivery of images and CSS/JS assets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Priyabrat Prasad M.
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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

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.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

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.

What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using CloudFront to deliver the static websites' content of our client created with Angular and React framework which is hosted on S3 bucket. We are also using Cloudfront to deliver dynamic content using AWS Lambda. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Preeti P.
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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

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.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

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.

What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helped show off any content, allowed us to feature our service quickly, and increased my ROI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ramadevi R.
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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

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.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

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.

What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being a fast content delivery network, Amazon CloudFront deals with dynamic web contents easily as it offers customising options before streaming across the internet. This customisation makes it more approachable to big companies ! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

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.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

As of now, there are no dislikes and downsides for this product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using the CloudFront Geo Restriction feature, it allows users to access our content only if they are in one of the countries on a list of approved countries. Also, it prevents users from accessing our content if they are in one of the countries on a blacklist of banned countries. CloudFront is primarily used for static content, which must be available everywhere and improve read performance. Contents are cached for a Time To Live (TTL). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rahul J.
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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

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.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

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.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:

If you are facing a problem getting content quickly and with a secure network, go for Cloudfront. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?

So we have many tools and apps to be developed, and they have some heavy static elements which need to be oaded in the app. But you can't put all the images inside app that increases the size of the application, so we use CloudFront to serve the static images. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sagar G.
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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

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.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

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 problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have a government application hosted on AWS. We are serving users using cloudfront. The UI is hosted on S3 hence it has good integration with S3. We are also caching recent data in CloudFront edge location, which allow us to serve our users better. We have also intergrated WAF service to protect data and application fro DDoS attack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Doolitha S.
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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

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.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Nothing so far me to mention. Does its task as mentioned in the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:

Anyone should try out this service which needs a good CDN Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?

To deliver the websites and applications to viewers and customers. Low latency is a great benefit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ANurag T.
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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

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.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

- 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.

What problems is Amazon CloudFront solving and how is that benefiting you?

As all of our workloads are deployed in AWS and I'm having commendable skills in AWS Cloud so it's pretty easy for me to configure and maintain CloudFront.

The best part which I like it is no need to take care of performance and scalability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.