We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudFront and Verizon EdgeCast based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two CDN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product’s most valuable feature is the availability of the websites."
"Amazon CloudFront is a stable solution."
"The product is very well interconnected with other Amazon services."
"If you're using AWS entirely, it's smooth sailing."
"The distribution aspect of CloudFront and its ability to reduce latency are most beneficial."
"We can personalize a lot of things inside CDN."
"It is stable."
"The tool is highly available and reliable. It helps to access server applications easily. Integrating Amazon CloudFront with other AWS services was very easy, I would rate it eight out of ten."
"It's super easy to use and integrate with."
"The Rules Engine V4 is the most valuable feature."
"The product is easy to use and easy to implement."
"The tool must provide regional control."
"During the setup phase, there were some hiccups in terms of security, the user role, and the permissions."
"The product should be more intuitive."
"The product could support any network load balancer. At present, we can use only Amazon’s load balancer application."
"They should have more Edge locations so that CloudFront can be used much more. If they can make it a little bit cheaper and better than other networks, we will be able to use it more."
"Support needs to be enhanced."
"There is room for improvement in customer service and support."
"A lot of caching features must be added to the solution."
"The web interface of the Verizon Edgecast portal is very old. It's not user-friendly, slow, and it is missing some valuable features like the ability to make bulk changes."
"In the next release, I would like to see more global endpoints for their CDN and a lower price."
"We could not create more than 15 custom rules."
Amazon CloudFront is ranked 4th in CDN with 22 reviews while Verizon EdgeCast is ranked 12th in CDN with 3 reviews. Amazon CloudFront is rated 8.2, while Verizon EdgeCast is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudFront writes "Top-notch in terms of customer service and offers pay-as-you-go model with a free tier". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Verizon EdgeCast writes "The product is easy to use and easy to implement, but we have to raise new feature requests frequently because the product is new". Amazon CloudFront is most compared with Azure Front Door, Akamai, Cloudflare, Windows Azure CDN and G-Core Labs CDN, whereas Verizon EdgeCast is most compared with Edgio, Akamai, Windows Azure CDN and Cloudflare. See our Amazon CloudFront vs. Verizon EdgeCast report.
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