Amazon CloudFront Room for Improvement

XA
Product manager at Infozion

With a mixed stack, things become a problem. With GCP and Azure, the DNS setup gets tricky when using CloudFront. With AWS, it's smooth and streamlined. Their GUI provides all the details and is very easy to navigate. 

The challenge starts to occur because AWS gives you only one DNS endpoint for the entire service. This single endpoint covers your CDN, AWS server, and domain migration needs.

If you use any other solution like GCP or Azure, you face additional configuration changes and account management. You need separate accounts for AWS CloudFront and your chosen platform, like GCP. This means securing and managing two separate accounts – an extra responsibility.

With Cloudflare, you just need one account and pay for it. Managing the complex DNS details isn't your burden. However, on the flip side, CloudFront might require more hands-on management on your part.

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AA
Consultant at Natwest

The UI could be more user-friendly. There were a lot of technical terms on the UI page.

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Guilherme Golabek Brein - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager Consultant at Alvarez & Marsal

The user interface could be improved. It's much easier to control or see financial results from similar solutions from Google.

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March 2024
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Luis FernandoDos Santos - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer 4 at WEX Inc. (NYSE: WEX)

The product should be more intuitive. It should provide better descriptions of the fields. It can improve the cache and have some customization inside cache configurations. While the product is easy to understand for a developer, it is not so easy for a DevOps engineer like me.

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Ronald Rhey Minoza - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer at PROJECT MOONSHOT

The solution could be more simplified for new users. It could be more user-friendly. Also, support needs to be improved.

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CK
IT Specialist at Jeeny

The solution can benefit from expanding its data center and server locations to multiple places for smoother content delivery with even lower latency. The latency we experience is sufficient for our needs, and we are doing well. However, if they expand their locations in the future, it could be a positive factor. Its competitors have multiple data and server locations. 

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Bireshwar Adhikary - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at ATOS

Amazon CloudFront can improve by accurately determining the latency of a non-defined URL that the solution encounters. For example, if we have a direct connection, the solution will link to the data in a fraction of a second but if we don't have a direct connection and are using a domain name instead, it will take longer to connect. To improve this, we should consider getting a direct connection.

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HI
IS/IT Consultant at Wipro Limited

A lot of caching features must be added to the solution. It only has the standard caching features. Akamai has properties that have multiple features that can be added as rules. Something similar must be added to CloudFront.

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Dai Le - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Software Engineer at Nextivity

I don't know yet what can be improved in the solution. I don't have time to dig into it.

During the setup phase, there were some hiccups in terms of security, the user role, and the permissions. The aforementioned area can be considered for improvement.

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Adalberto Barbosa Da Costa Lobato - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Solutions Architect at gwcloud.company

The tool must provide regional control. It must provide features to allow only one region to reach the content via CDN.

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Saman Tohidian - PeerSpot reviewer
Wordpress Developer at TechVertu

Amazon CloudFront's pricing is a bit high, and we would appreciate it if they reduced it.

Amazon CloudFront's setup is a bit difficult, and we would love it if they made it easier.

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Jay Vekaria - PeerSpot reviewer
Linux System Administrator at Ergode

I have utilized certain characteristics and invested effort in reading the documentation, which proved to be challenging.

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AN
Solution architect at a integrator with 51-200 employees

Its price is really high and can be improved. From the technology perspective, they should have some multi-platform integration. When you are configuring something on top of it, it is geoblocking. There are some limitations for the IP addresses, which other solutions don't have.

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. 

They don't have a lot of PoPs in Asia-Pacific. That's one of the reasons why there is some latency. They can reduce this latency by adding multiple PoPs. If we are concentrating on markets, such as Vietnam, the Philippines, where we don't have PoPs, we have to ride on other providers.

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RB
Engineer at a renewables & environment company with 501-1,000 employees

The product could support any network load balancer. At present, we can use only Amazon’s load balancer application. It will help us manage hosting multiple web services or websites easily.

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Buyer's Guide
Amazon CloudFront
March 2024
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765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.