Amazon CloudFront
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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- 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 16/07/2022
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.
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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 20/11/2022
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.
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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 14/04/2022
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.
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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.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Reliable and Scalable CDN for Modern QA Teams
Reviewed on 22/10/2025
It is a reliable CDN with excellent speed, strong security, and scalability that supports QA and...
It is a reliable CDN with excellent speed, strong security, and scalability that supports QA and production workloads.
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I like that is a fast global content delivery platform, with great uptime, and seamless integration with AWS services for optimized performance.
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For my team, the Initial setup felt complex, and pricing details could be clearer for teams new to AWS cost structures.
- 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 13/07/2022
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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
Below are some frequently asked questions for Amazon CloudFront.Q. What type of pricing plans does Amazon CloudFront offer?
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).
Q. Who are the typical users of Amazon CloudFront?
Amazon CloudFront has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Amazon CloudFront support?
Amazon CloudFront supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Amazon CloudFront support mobile devices?
Amazon CloudFront supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Amazon CloudFront integrate with?
Amazon CloudFront integrates with the following applications:
AWS Shield, AWS WAF, Amazon S3
Q. What level of support does Amazon CloudFront offer?
Amazon CloudFront offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base
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