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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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2,231,347 Twitter followers
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136,383 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
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.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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Amazon CloudFront Pros and Cons

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

We have set up ci/cd for our deployment and we can deploy at any time of the day without affecting customers, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

It is not always easy to navigate thru the options we have to setup different seetings like for example adding new cache behaviors, i wish there was something in the console that would give you a quick example popup and a link Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

out ability to deploy seamlessly and at any time all acrros the world. we have customer from all over, and their experience is enhanced with us deploying to edge locations that are near them Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

It's very easy to set up a multi-region content delivery endpoint for static websites or assets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

It would be nice if there's a centalized way to setup website/assets delivery using S3 + CloudFront, so far I've had to do this manually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Deploying user-facing web applications using CloudFront + S3. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

I love how easy it is to use Cloudfront + S3 to host a static website. This has alleviated a lot of pain points in hosting servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

There is nothing much to dislike about Cloudfront except an outdated UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

S3 bucket + Cloudfront CDN helps not worrying about serve engines and massive configuration files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

The speed of retrieving cached items from CloudFront really helps our players get the data they need quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

The inability of the cache to be cleared instantly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Serving content to our players quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

Faster page loads internationally with images served through Cloudfront. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

I have been very happy with Cloudfront and it performs well for me. I would like to have the option to make the subdomain of the url's for the image to be that of my main domain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Fast loading images internationally for visitors to my websites that helps with search engine optimization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

it is simple to manage it, and it works.

overall in most places the exp. is good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

in Israel CF doesnt have good enough service

the distribution creation takes 30 min

and the system doesnt have enough server side analytics - for example users analytics like we have on player side, are not exposed to the servewr side Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

scale of viewers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

it's AWS so it can't be too bad. Also it can be easily automated with cloudformation or Terraform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Domain name stuff. We were trying to replace what we did in CustomDomainName api gateway and it wasn't easy to do in Cloud Front. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:

don't do it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

API gateway could not restrict tls 1.2 so we had to use cloudfront. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

The best part of the service is to serve content to the customer at faster speeds. Helps with DDoS with integration with other service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

The cost if the product is very high compared to other products available in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon CloudFront:

Reduce cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Bring content closer to customer and terminating SSL closer to enduser. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

Ability to customize the domain that assets display as being delivered from. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Integration can be difficult with decoupled systems but this is probably more of a weakness with the content creation service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Serving media from S3 buckets to different sites and customizing the domain that the media is displayed from. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

Easy to implement. Integrates well with other AWS services, like Elastic Load Balancing and WAF. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

While Lambda @ Edge solves some problems, it would be nice to have features similar to F5's iRules where you can route traffic based on headers, cookies, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Content delivery of static/dynamic pages, assets, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.