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."The distribution aspect of CloudFront and its ability to reduce latency are most beneficial."
"The product is very well interconnected with other Amazon services."
"Feature-wise, I like the solution's signed URL because it provides security for me."
"The product provides reduced latency and quicker site refreshes."
"The solution has good security features."
"If you're using AWS entirely, it's smooth sailing."
"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."
"The solution offers the flexibility to control configuration rules."
"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."
"I like Cloudflare's application gateway and DDoS protection."
"Cloudflare allows us to self-host services such as Rocket.Chat and Node-RED, in high-availability mode, thanks to round robin DNS which allows us to share one hostname between our two locations."
"The most valuable feature is the web application firewall."
"I rate its stability a ten out of ten."
"Cloudflare has many features."
"The UI is good."
"The user interface could be improved."
"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."
"I have utilized certain characteristics and invested effort in reading the documentation, which proved to be challenging."
"Support needs to be enhanced."
"During the setup phase, there were some hiccups in terms of security, the user role, and the permissions."
"They could be expanding the number of locations available. It will help users easily access content."
"The product should be more intuitive."
"Amazon CloudFront is harder to understand compared to Azure."
"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."
"Cloudflare does not have an on-premise solution. If they had different approaches they could be better suited to accommodate more customers, such as on-premise and hybrid deployments. For example, hybrid deployments would be useful where you could move the traffic from the enterprise to the cloud."
"The solution could use more analytics on the backend to give us more insights into everything. More reports would be helpful."
"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 should be a specific price list for enterprise-level customers."
"Cloudflare's console should be made more user-friendly."
"Support response time could be improved."
"The reporting can definitely be improved to offer a lot more explanation on something that may have happened or has actually happened."
Amazon CloudFront is ranked 4th in CDN with 21 reviews while Cloudflare is ranked 1st in CDN with 56 reviews. Amazon CloudFront is rated 8.0, 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 and AWS Shield. See our Amazon CloudFront vs. Cloudflare report.
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