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."If you're using AWS entirely, it's smooth sailing."
"Feature-wise, I like the solution's signed URL because it provides security for me."
"The solution has many features that are comprehensive."
"The product is very well interconnected with other Amazon services."
"The distribution aspect of CloudFront and its ability to reduce latency are most beneficial."
"It has built-in DDoS protection, which protects against DDoS attacks."
"The image loading process is easy and cost-effective too."
"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 is easy to use and easy to implement."
"It's super easy to use and integrate with."
"The Rules Engine V4 is the most valuable feature."
"The solution could be more simplified for new users. It could be more user-friendly."
"The support must be improved."
"Support needs to be enhanced."
"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."
"The tool must provide regional control."
"I have utilized certain characteristics and invested effort in reading the documentation, which proved to be challenging."
"With a mixed stack, things become a problem. With GCP and Azure, the DNS setup gets tricky when using CloudFront."
"The product could support any network load balancer. At present, we can use only Amazon’s load balancer application."
"In the next release, I would like to see more global endpoints for their CDN and a lower price."
"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."
"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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