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Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront
4.5
(11)

Pricing

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About Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront helps businesses delivery their content over a secure and distributed network. In addition to increasing the speed and quality of delivered items, it also increases security of the application, allowing for protection against network attacks. Amazon CloudFront is completely compliant with all government regulations and reports can be easily generated to monitor metrics.

Amazon CloudFront User Interface

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Amazon CloudFront Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $0.09
Free Trial
Free Version

Basic

$0.09

No plan information available

    Amazon CloudFront Features

    • Popular features found in Cloud Storage
      Access Controls/Permissions
      Backup and Recovery
      Data Storage Management
      Encryption
    • More features of Amazon CloudFront
      API
      Authentication
      Compliance Management
      Content Compression
      Content Personalization
      Data Management
      DDoS Protection
      File Sharing
      Global Network
      Large File Delivery
      Performance Metrics
      Real-Time Data
      Remote Access/Control
      Reporting/Analytics
      Secure Data Storage
      Secure Login
      Video Delivery
      Video Encoding

    Amazon CloudFront Integrations

    AWS WAF
    AWS WAF
    AWS Shield
    AWS Shield
    Amazon S3
    Amazon S3

    Amazon CloudFront User Reviews

    Overall Rating

    4.5

    Ratings Breakdown

    5

    64%

    4

    27%

    3

    9%

    2

    0%

    1

    0%

    Secondary Ratings

    Ease of Use

    3.6

    Value for money

    4.3

    Customer support

    3.4

    Functionality

    4.5

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    Gianluigi's profile
    Gianluigi M.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    11-50 employees

    Used monthly for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed July 2022

    An almost complete CDN at a really chea price

    4

    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.

    Ratings Breakdown

    3
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    3
    Functionality
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    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.

    Reasons for choosing Amazon CloudFront

    Integration with other AWS services such as Lambda.

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    OI
    Omer I.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    2-10 employees

    Used monthly for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed November 2022

    CDN for static websites and media

    5

    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).

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    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.

    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.

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    VR
    Verified
    Reviewer

    Higher Education

    10000+ employees

    Used daily for less than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed April 2022

    The AWS solution for CDN and with other uses as well

    3

    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.

    Ratings Breakdown

    3
    Ease of use
    3
    Value for money
    2
    Customer support
    3
    Functionality
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    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.

    Reasons for choosing Amazon CloudFront

    We chose CloudFront over other CDN providers because we had a blanket approval for all AWS services. Using other services would have required a review process from the University's legal team. Also, in some situations it was preferable to keep all services as closely bound as possible.

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    CR
    Clara R.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    1001-5000 employees

    Used weekly for less than 12 months

    Review source

    Reviewed October 2025

    Reliable and Scalable CDN for Modern QA Teams

    4

    It is a reliable CDN with excellent speed, strong security, and scalability that supports QA and production workloads.

    Ratings Breakdown

    3
    Ease of use
    3
    Value for money
    4
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    I like that is a fast global content delivery platform, with great uptime, and seamless integration with AWS services for optimized performance.
    Cons:
    For my team, the Initial setup felt complex, and pricing details could be clearer for teams new to AWS cost structures.

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    Jb B.

    Verified reviewer

    Computer Software

    2-10 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed July 2022

    Amazon Cloudfront is an instantly scalable content delivery network

    5

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    4
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    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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    GC
    Grant C.

    Verified reviewer

    Marketing and Advertising

    2-10 employees

    Used monthly for less than 12 months

    Review source

    Reviewed September 2023

    AWS CloudFront Review - Fiber Homes

    5

    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.

    Ratings Breakdown

    3
    Ease of use
    4
    Functionality
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    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.

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    VR
    Verified
    Reviewer

    Marketing and Advertising

    2-10 employees

    Used weekly for free trial

    Review source

    Reviewed May 2021

    Such a great platform which is not so easy to use

    5

    A great infrastructure and a platform with great performance that can definitely be improved in terms of accessibility and overall customer support

    Ratings Breakdown

    1
    Ease of use
    1
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
    icon
    Pros:
    I love their network and the functionality they have to offer great service, the performance has never let me down and I must say they are one of the top providers in the category.
    Cons:
    It's not easy to set up at all. There are so many pitfalls while settings things up that a small mistake can set you back by hours of your time. A very dated interface for their platform leaves you guessing most of the time on how to achieve simple things. Be ready for a ton of tech jargon that you are definitely not going to understand if you are new to this. Customer support for some plans is non-existent and for other plans, it is not so accessible. The pricing is not so transparent as it at times it can leave you guessing what the actual price you would be charged after adding up everything.

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    IP
    Isak P.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    11-50 employees

    Used daily for less than 12 months

    Review source

    Reviewed September 2022

    Affordable CDN easily integrated with other AWS services

    5

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    4
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
    icon
    Pros:
    Seamless and scalable setup for bringing lambda functions to the edge.
    Cons:
    As with other AWS services - the UI feels a bit convoluted and requires some time getting used to.

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    Younes E.

    Verified reviewer

    Packaging and Containers

    11-50 employees

    Used monthly for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed May 2022

    Great service if you are already using Amazon hosting

    4

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    3
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
    icon
    Pros:
    It's very easy to start to use the CDN service once you host your website on Amazon
    Cons:
    You will need a specialist to manage it, it's not user friendly at all.

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    Pawe W.

    Verified reviewer

    Computer Software

    11-50 employees

    Used monthly for less than 6 months

    Review source

    Reviewed August 2022

    CloudFront as CDN for medium scale application

    5

    Fantastic!

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    I thoroughly enjoyed working with CloudFront. It was used in order to shorten the delivery time of static content in our web application (Video, Images). By using CloudFront we managed to decrease the delivery time via network by more than 300%. It is very easy to configure and does not many maintenance processes.
    Cons:
    To be honest, I did not find cons about this Software - the only disadvantage are raising costs when used intensely, but this is the case with all of the CDN providers (Akamai, CloudFlare, Google CDN, Azure CDN).

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