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Amazon CloudFront Reviews

User Rating

4.5/5 (Based on 304 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

  • Excellent

    53%
  • Very Good

    43.4%
  • Average

    2%
  • Poor

    0.7%
  • Terrible

    1%

User Sentiments

Global Content Delivery, Ease of Setup, Seamless S3 Integration, Fast Performance

Slow Cache Invalidation, Complicated Interface, High Cost at Scale, Limited Customization

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Review Summary

Overall, users find the service reliable, fast, and easy to use. It is praised for its ability to handle high traffic volumes, its global reach, and its strong security features. Additionally, users appreciate the integration options and the customer support provided. Common criticisms include the lack of some advanced features, the pricing structure, and the occasional technical issues. However, the majority of users are satisfied with the service and would recommend it to others.

Pros

  • Highly scalable: Can handle large amounts of traffic and data.
  • Secure: Provides strong security features to protect data and applications.
  • Fast: Delivers content quickly and reliably with low latency.

Cons

  • Cost: Can be expensive for some users, especially those with highbandwidth requirements.
  • Complexity: Can be complex to set up and manage, requiring technical expertise.
  • Limited customization: May not offer as much customization as some other CDN providers.

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Reviews
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Ajay S N

January 9, 2024 Source: G2.com
"CloudFront for Faster Loading Time"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

This is so impactful when it comes to a global website. The users will be able to access your website fastly.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

As of now, I don't have any dislikes with cloudfront. My requirements are completely fullfilled.

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

One of my clients are having a website and they want a CDN, I have opted CloudFront as I have experience in tat

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Parth P

December 26, 2023 Source: G2.com
"Deliver Content Like Speedy Gonzales"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

Speed - Deliver content with lightning-fast latency, no matter where your users are.

Reduce origin loads and speed up delivery.

Price -The pay-as-you-go price model makes it economical for the early-age startup

Geo-targeting - One of the best features I use in the production is targeting the audience based on the location.

Reliability - As an AWS product, there is no need to think about it.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Understanding AWS pricing can feel like a chore, almost an unfair burden.

Can not create Distributions without SSL.

It's easy to use, but it is too complex for a beginner to configure the distribution for the best performance with comprehensive pricing.

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

It helps us improve our static file delivery and reduce our S3 cost.

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Audrey W

December 25, 2023 Source: G2.com
"I use CloudFront to host video content for my webTV network."
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

CloudFront is user friendly when it comes to uploading and managing content. It takes the burden off of my server.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

I have not experienced any downsides using CloudFront.

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

It frees up space on my limited server capacity.

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Rahul M

December 13, 2023 Source: G2.com
"Awesome, efficient and cost effective CDN."
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

Cloudfront is the first CDN wr used, and we never felt the need to switch back over to any other provider. Cost is naturally one of the main considerations when using cdns on sites with heavy traffic, lots of hits/access etc and Amazon Cloudfront is by far one of the most affordable solutions out there.

Other things I loved - the Lightsail version of Cloudfront (same as CF, but a super easy interface) is one of the easiest to use and set up and works just as efficiently as regular CF.

Their ability to serve protected downloads via their system (through private keys on one's server) is another superlative feature - integrated with many an other software solution which just increases the robustness of the service.

Cannot say enough good things about Cloudfront!

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Their interface is complex to use (regular CF, not Lightsail) - they could make that easier to use for non technically inclined folks. Their documentation is pretty extensive tho, so I'm not really sure if that's a "negative" but it's by far the only one I can think of - if at all!

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

Improving site load times - serving protected downloads via secure URLs - and reducing loads on the serve by serving static objects through CF - as described above.

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Shailendra S

December 12, 2023 Source: G2.com
"CloudFront that easy to use"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

It's really fast. Response in milliseconds and when user make a call it response it with it's nearest node. Easy to implement

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Nothing is dislike about that. It's good website.

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

It solving node load and reply quickly

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Vipul P

November 5, 2023 Source: G2.com
"Easily serve website with better security & performance"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

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 it. Fews of the Cons -

1) Features to reduce cost such as caching.

2) Faster loading of website which improves experience.

3) Better security with DDoS protection and SSL/TLS

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Amazon CloudFront has a number of features that are quite tricky for beginners I have faced an HTTP 443 kind of error so troubleshooting those errors happens to be a pain.

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

Amazon CloudFront helped us with better performance of the website which was the prime concern with low latency. Definitely Recommended.

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Afaq M

October 5, 2023 Source: G2.com
"Explore the AWS Cloud in Deeply"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

I like all the services of AWS and 4 years ago I learned about cloud computing and virtualization. When I search for these topics in detail most of the topics related to AWS and its cloud service include its network infrastructure, cloud services, storage, and computing service. After reading these things, I decided to learn all AWS services in Deep, and Now ALHAMDULILLAH I have 3 to 4 years of experience in AWS and I am certified in the most important courses of Amazon e.g. Intro to DevOps, DevOps on AWS: Code, Build & Test, AWS Cloud Technical Essential, Launch an Auto-Scaling AWS EC2 Instance VM, Exam Prep: AWS Certified Solution Architecture- Associate, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (DOP-C02) and some other also and Now I wish to become Amazon team member as Amazon Partner.

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Nothing Else...

AWS Cloud services are really wonderful as compared to other competitors e.g. Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

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

Help to improve load time, scalability, High Availability security, and cost optimization...

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Fasih A

September 26, 2023 Source: G2.com
"Cf is valuable cdn service that provide multiple regional cache"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

It has multi functional behaviors setting wih origin

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Cf Interface and invalidation cache option

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

Cacheing problems un wanted region blockage

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Anonymous User

September 8, 2023 Source: G2.com
"Best CDN for Early stage Start ups growing into enterprises"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

Highly customizable, great feature set, perfect scalability and extensibility

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

Logging is hard to configure if you do want it. S3 as log storage isn't easy to be processed, while options like firehose is hard to set up.

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

It acts as both a CDN and a reverse proxy for my company's resources.

It saves us the need to provision extra reverse proxy instances, as well as saving time on setting up a CDN.

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Harish P

September 7, 2023 Source: G2.com
"One of the best service of AWS"
What do you like best about Amazon CloudFront?

Amazon CloudFront is used chiefly for Content delivery in web applications. Its improves the performance of loading CSS and JS in the browser

What do you dislike about Amazon CloudFront?

The performance of delivering the content to the browser. Also, we can cache so it improves overall performance in terms of loading data in the browser.

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

As I mentioned in the previous question. The best part of Amazon CloudFront is performance. Instead of serving the content from the server we use AWS CloudFront for better performance and caching

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