Audience

Developers requiring a solution to deliver content with low latency and high transfer speeds

About Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds, all within a developer-friendly environment. CloudFront is integrated with AWS – both physical locations that are directly connected to the AWS global infrastructure, as well as other AWS services. CloudFront works seamlessly with services including AWS Shield for DDoS mitigation, Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing or Amazon EC2 as origins for your applications, and Lambda@Edge to run custom code closer to customers’ users and to customize the user experience. Lastly, if you use AWS origins such as Amazon S3, Amazon EC2 or Elastic Load Balancing, you don’t pay for any data transferred between these services and CloudFront. Customize the code you run at the AWS content delivery network (CDN) edge using serverless compute features to balance cost, performance, and security.

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Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 4.0 / 5
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Company Information

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Founded: 1994
United States
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Amazon CloudFront Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What kinds of users and organization types does Amazon CloudFront work with?
Amazon CloudFront works with these users and organization types: Mid Size Business, Small Business, Enterprise, Freelance, Nonprofit, Government, and Startup.
Q: What languages does Amazon CloudFront support in their product?
Amazon CloudFront supports these languages: English.
Q: What kind of support options does Amazon CloudFront offer?
Amazon CloudFront offers support via phone support and online.
Q: What other applications or services does Amazon CloudFront integrate with?
Amazon CloudFront integrates with: Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Transcribe, SolarWinds AppOptics, AWS App Mesh, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Shield, AWS Virtual Waiting Room, AWS WAF, Beats, Canonic, Causal, Centreon, ChaosSearch, Commvault Cloud, Commvault HyperScale X, CopperEgg, CorralData, Orange Logic, Corviq, Crafter CMS, CrowdHandler, Cyware, and DataDome and more.
Q: What type of training does Amazon CloudFront provide?
Amazon CloudFront provides training in the form of documentation, live online, in person, and videos.

Amazon CloudFront Product Features

CDN

Video Streaming Not Supported
Software Downloads Not Supported
Content Acceleration Not Supported
Managed CDN Not Supported
Transparent Caching Not Supported
Reporting/Analytics Not Supported
Load Balancing Not Supported
Multi-CDN Switching Not Supported
DDoS Protection Not Supported
Web Application Firewalls (WAF) Not Supported

Serverless

API Proxy Supported
Application Integration Supported
Data Stores Supported
Developer Tooling Supported
Orchestration Supported
Reporting / Analytics Supported
Serverless Computing Supported
Storage Supported

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Amazon CloudFront Verified User Reviews

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  • An Amazon CloudFront User
    Software Developer
    Used the software for: Less than 6 months
    Frequency of Use: Weekly
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 100 - 499
    Design 5 out of 5 stars
    Ease 5 out of 5 stars
    Features 5 out of 5 stars
    Pricing 5 out of 5 stars
    Support 4 out of 5 stars
    Probability You Would Recommend? 9 out of 10

    "Great Content Delivery Network"

    5 out of 5 stars Posted 2020-08-24

    Pros: Easy setup.
    Global network of servers - fast speeds and reliability.
    Highly configurable.
    Integrates well with other AWS services.
    Part of the free tier.
    Pay as you pricing model.

    Cons: Although i have not used support yet but the only con i found is that Customer support costs extra.

    Overall: Amazon CloudFront is a CDN which can speed up your website or webapp performance by distributing data to multiple edge locations around the globe and serving the user from nearest location. It provides lots of advanced features and has a pay as you go model making it affordable even for small scale apps.

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