We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudFront and Cloudflare 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."It has built-in DDoS protection, which protects against DDoS attacks."
"If you're using AWS entirely, it's smooth sailing."
"The beneficial feature for the entire AWS community is the presence of edge location servers. These servers are strategically located in multiple locations, allowing efficient content delivery from the nearest server."
"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to deliver content to users nearby."
"The most valuable feature is the number of servers they can put your content in while being reliable."
"Amazon CloudFront is a stable solution."
"It is stable."
"The product is very well interconnected with other Amazon services."
"The simplicity of the overall dashboard makes it a great product for a user like me who has less understanding of the internet than a developer or other more technical people. It gives me peace of mind. I also love the easy customization of the Page Rules."
"Cloudflare has many features."
"It is easier to configure and develop documentation to see how we have configured firewalls."
"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare is that it has a free version. They give us the free version with the anti-DDoS features and also the load balancing solution."
"The DDoS protection is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"When using services like Heroku, Cloudflare is very useful for CNAME flattening. I also use it for their end-to-end SSL with TLS authentication on nginx for securing servers."
"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare is the GUI. You are able to control the solution very well through the interface. There is a lot of functionality that is embedded in the service."
"The solution offers the flexibility to control configuration rules."
"Amazon CloudFront is harder to understand compared to Azure."
"The support must be improved."
"The tool must provide regional control."
"During the setup phase, there were some hiccups in terms of security, the user role, and the permissions."
"Sometimes, the server goes down automatically."
"Amazon CloudFront's setup is a bit difficult, and we would love it if they made it easier."
"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."
"Although I think it's quite good, it doesn't provide me with all the features I would expect to have if I were using Imperva."
"The product needs to improve its automation."
"One area of improvement is in the Access Rules. Hypothetically, if we wanted to block or challenge traffic outside of the United States, the only way to currently do that (as far as I know) is to enter every single country outside of the United States. That could be a labor intensive job. A solution could be to enable users to create a rule where traffic is only allowed within a certain country."
"Support response time could be improved."
"Cloudflare's console should be made more user-friendly."
"It should have easier documentation for the configuration. It's very technical and people who aren't technical should also be able to do the configuration."
"They lack a good way to manage DNS as a company, since everything is relegated to single account logins until you get to the higher levels. They have come out with a paid feature to remedy this, but I have not had a chance to fully review it yet to know if it fixes the access problem."
"There are some issues with the CDN services."
Amazon CloudFront is ranked 4th in CDN with 22 reviews while Cloudflare is ranked 1st in CDN with 57 reviews. Amazon CloudFront is rated 8.2, while Cloudflare is rated 8.4. 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 Cloudflare writes "It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes". Amazon CloudFront is most compared with Azure Front Door, Akamai, Windows Azure CDN, Fastly and AWS Global Accelerator, whereas Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, AWS Shield and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway. See our Amazon CloudFront vs. Cloudflare report.
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