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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
HQ Location
Seattle, WA
Twitter
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136,383 employees on LinkedIn®
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NASDAQ: AMZN
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$177,866
Description

By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform.

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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?

The Amazon CloudFront content delivery network takes into account the worldwide dissemination of computerized content through territorial focuses that work in significant business centers. It diminishes dormancy in getting to static and gushing information through its appropriated content delivery channels, which guarantee that the information is conveyed to the beneficiary from the closest CDN server. Amazon CloudFront is a compensation as-you-go display that can without much of a stretch be incorporated with all Amazon Web Services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

The price of Amazion Cloud front is very confusing and Technical support only available for an additional fee . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use it for Live and On-Demand video Streaming and also for security and DDoS protection . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

They have several CDN points all over the world. Good Cdn for our websites. I'm currenty use for my 7 websites. It has file (images, pdfs, videos etc) compression feature in the system too. You can find advanced use newest TLS 2018 But there is no POPs (points) on Turkey (Istanbul, Ankara etc.) although others have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

ui is old. maybe they should improve and use more user friendly UI. Current UI is complicated for first time users. you need to adjust. Purging option is not good, also it is hard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:

If you are looking for CDN and has point on your country of the website host, select Amazon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

CDN. I'm using for my websites as CDN solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

CloudFront is a great service to get someone started using a CDN. it's very friendly to use, has more and more features as time goes by, and actually is quite powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

it is not flexible enough, and like all other AWS services, there is no option to have any custom features of configurations done for a customer by the service team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

we are delivering content globally using the CDN features, but more importantly we utilize the compute abilities of labda@edge that integrate with CloudFront and allow us to perform business logic as close as possible to the user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Emil W.
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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

Quick setup and implement. It may just take you 30mins to finish every set. And it also provides future scale-up flexibility as an economic solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Purge interface is not so friendly and not for none-engineer to operation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

CDN is a very import service for the website. Couldfront provides an economic way to broadcast your website to worldwide and also give you an easy interface to manage it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

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What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

I've tried to setup a simple s3 hosted webside with some additional lambdas and I got to the point that I needed to configure https for the domain name. Cloud front was involved there. There an issue somewhere and I don't even know how to debug it. I mean : I've tried to use it for a simple thing and ive ended up reading a ton of documents and still don't understand what went wrong... Didn't make this https still because of it...no time left on this task for now... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

None or minus 1$/month Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

Quick to set up and manage distributions. Easy to manage multiple storage environments or s3 buckets storing vastly different content (for example, static resources, or live streaming content with RTMP). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Not much, it's honestly a solid product. My only complaint is with AWS's handling of SSL certs for CloudFront (although this honestly affects many different Amazon products), DNS validation can be clunky and takes a while. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We currently use CloudFront to deliver CDN content to a vast system that serves large video files stored on AWS. We integrate with Web Application Firewall to restrict access by IP match, to prevent unauthenticated users from accessing protected CDN content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

The ease of getting setup. I also liked the ability to modify as needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

I understand the reason for it, but the wait time to deploy changes is 15 to 20 minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We have users around the globe and this allows us to easily get content to them in a timely manner, instead of having them come back to the university servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

The ease to implement and also the savings incurred. We save a lot of money on bandwidth thanks to cloudfront as where we are based, bandwidth is very expensive. Serving our static content faster by being closer to the customer helps with one of the company values of giving the best customer experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Not always the best CDN for certain regions and other CDNs might be faster with lower latency. There is also no support for web sockets which is the biggest consumer of our bandwidth Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Faster loading sites by being closer to customer

Lowering the latency of our sites for time to first byte

Reduced bandwidth cost so improving operational efficiency Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ryan A.
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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

It is very easy to set up, especially if your source is in S3. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

A single file is limited to 20GB, which in today's day and age, is insufficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:

Increase document size support to at least 500GB per file. Multimedia files are large, noise files are larger. There is no need to limit it to 20GB if S3 can support unlimited object size. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

quick access to content for global users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

So easy to set it up for my use case of software image distribution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

It is not easy to figure out how to set up web server configuration on origin server (e.g. Apache, Nginix, etc). For example, I still haven't figured out how to set cache TTL policies on directory index generated by default on Apache 2.2 webserver Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Software image and OS update mirror for FortiSIEM from Fortinet Inc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.