Amazon CloudFront

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Content delivery network with secure data transfer

About Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) that helps businesses manage high-speed and low-latency transfers to deliver videos, applications, data, and APIs to end-users. It lets staff members provide a flexible and layered security perimeter to protect against network attacks and application layer DDoS attacks.

Amazon CloudFront enables employees to ensure data and communication security by delivering data over HTTPS and utilizing Transport Layer Security (TLS) optimizations, such as OCSP stapling, session tickers, field-level encryption, perfect forward secrecy, and more on a centralized platform. Administrators can configure access rights and set up authentication protocols using signed URLs, signed cookies, and token authentication. It also lets supervisors set up geo-location-based restrictions to ensure user and data security.

Amazon CloudFront allows businesses to deliver data in compliance with regulatory bodies, such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and ISO. Team members can maintain standard and real-time logs and generate granular metrics to gain insights into data delivery operations.


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4.6 /5
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Value for Money
4.4/5
Features
4.5/5
Ease of Use
3.7/5
Customer Support
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Gianluigi
Gianluigi
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

An almost complete CDN at a really chea price

Reviewed on 2022/07/16

We need a CDN to deliver large and static files and execute some logic before send the response....

We need a CDN to deliver large and static files and execute some logic before send the response. The logic is contained inside a Lambda function which calculate the resource to send back to the requester using a mapping file.

Pros

You pay only bandwith costs, so it's really unexpensive for us. Statistics are really usefull and quite complete. Integration with Lambda is a really powerfull tool to execute complicated logic before sending a response.

Cons

Setting up can be a quite difficult and the documentation is not really clear sometime.

Alternatives Considered

Cloudflare

Reasons for Switching to Amazon CloudFront

Integration with other AWS services such as Lambda.
Omer
Omer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

CDN for static websites and media

Reviewed on 2022/11/20

Most of my usage of CloudFront was coupled with AWS CloudFormation. This meant I was able to...

Most of my usage of CloudFront was coupled with AWS CloudFormation. This meant I was able to quickly use sample stacks to deploy and test my infrastructure. I was also able to use the same stack to deploy to multiple environments (dev, staging, production).

Pros

Easy to use, fast, reliable, cheap. CloudFront is a great CDN for static websites and media. It's easy to use and configure. It's fast and reliable. It's also cheap. I have used it for a few years and I only had minor issues with it. It makes serving static (cache-able) content very easy. It's also very easy to integrate with other AWS services such as S3, Route53, and Lambda Edge to customize the behavior of the CDN. Security best practices are builtin and usage with AWS IAC tool (CloudFormation) was a delight. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to serve static content from AWS.

Cons

CloudFront itself is a global service, however, Lambda Edge which integrates with CloudFront can only be deployed on a specific AWS region (North Virginia). This means you will be forced to deploy parts of your infrastructure in that region. This is not always (allowed) by certain companies policies.

Alternatives Considered

Vercel

Reasons for Choosing Amazon CloudFront

Flexibility and Security are better with Cloudfront.

Reasons for Switching to Amazon CloudFront

Flexibility and Security are better with Cloudfront.
Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Higher Education
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

The AWS solution for CDN and with other uses as well

Reviewed on 2022/04/14

It's okay. It often looks like the grass is greener for companies and products who focus specificall...

It's okay. It often looks like the grass is greener for companies and products who focus specifically on CDN services, but in general it's nice to work within one ecosystem.

Pros

With CloudFront we were able to correct incorrect response headers from sources such as s3 buckets, api gateways, and lambdas that were returning valid results but invalid response headers. This helped us fix some SEO issues. Additionally since it is a CDN it helps deliver our content faster and more reliably.

Cons

This software can make debugging more difficult. In general I do not like how AWS handles logging. I also dislike that other AWS services initially returned errors that necessitated the use of a CloudFront to correct incorrect headers.

Grant
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

AWS CloudFront Review - Fiber Homes

Reviewed on 2023/09/21

For what it's supposed to do, it's a good product. This is more an indictment of me, but some of...

For what it's supposed to do, it's a good product. This is more an indictment of me, but some of the language and concepts feel overly industry-specific and technical.

Pros

Strictly as a matter of opinion, I most appreciate the more fine-grained controls I can put on my S3 bucket exposure. Instead of just making the bucket public, I can allow CloudFront to peek in.

Cons

To me, there's been a steep learning curve. I still don't feel confident about a lot of the language/relevant vocabulary (e.g. "invalidations"). It doesn't feel like many of the concepts have been abstracted out to the same degree as some other AWS services.

Jb
Jb
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Amazon Cloudfront is an instantly scalable content delivery network

Reviewed on 2022/07/13

Pros

Instantly helps achieve scalability to deliver millions of videos, images and other static content without setting up your own content network or buying into expensive solutions.

Cloudfront's edge delivery capabilities makes the entire content experience super fast for all clients. Encryption and storage management comes out of the box with right infrastructure and cloud setup.

Cons

Cloudfront can use better, simpler documentation. It's also missing more out of the box solutions, for ex. how to setup and a on-demand-video delivery setup or templates for its cloud deployment. There are templates available in AWS China but no within US, it's missing english documentation. With SDK, there can be more default integrations with established CMS systems like JamStack to simplify development experience.

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Amazon CloudFront FAQs

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Amazon CloudFront offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$0.09
  • Free Trial: Not Available

Amazon CloudFront is available for free and on on-demand pricing starting at $0.085/month (First 10TB).

Amazon CloudFront has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Amazon CloudFront supports the following languages:

English

Amazon CloudFront supports the following devices:

Amazon CloudFront integrates with the following applications:

AWS Shield, AWS WAF, Amazon S3

Amazon CloudFront offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base

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