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Amazon CloudFront

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AWS Global Accelerator

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Question: How does Amazon CloudFront compare with AWS Global Accelerator?
Answer: Below, you'll find more information on how CloudFront compares against Global Accelerator. Still, if you need to deliver static and dynamic content to users worldwide, CloudFront may be a good choice. Global Accelerator may be better for you if you need to accelerate traffic to latency-sensitive applications. CloudFront is a CDN, while Global Accelerator is a Global Traffic Management service. CloudFront may be best suited for delivering static and dynamic content, such as images, web pages, and videos. In contrast, Global Accelerator may be best suited for accelerating traffic to latency-sensitive applications hosted in AWS, such as video streaming and gaming applications. They say CloudFront is a good choice for delivering content to users worldwide. Global Accelerator, on the other hand, may be used to improve the performance of applications that are hosted in multiple AWS regions.
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A stable and easy-to-deploy solution that enables users to deliver files and media across the world
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  • "Its price is really on the high side. It should be cheaper in general."
  • "Amazon's pricing varies depending on the data transfer."
  • "I rate Amazon CloudFront's pricing a five out of ten."
  • "The product could improve its price."
  • "Amazon CloudFront is an expensive solution."
  • "The solution’s price is reasonable."
  • "Amazon CloudFront costs less than third-party services."
  • "For CloudFront, I'm quite satisfied with the pricing. Initially, it doesn't require many resources for this specific solution."

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    How do I choose between AWS Global Accelerator and Amazon CloudFront?
    Top Answer:Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether Amazon’s Web Service Global Accelerator or Amazon CloudFront global content delivery network was the better fit for us. We decided to go with… more »
    What do you like most about Amazon CloudFront?
    Top Answer:The AWS environment was very helpful in terms of integration.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon CloudFront?
    Top Answer:I rate the product’s pricing a six to seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.
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    How does Amazon CloudFront compare with AWS Global Accelerator?
    Top Answer:Below, you'll find more information on how CloudFront compares against Global Accelerator. Still, if you need to deliver static and dynamic content to users worldwide, CloudFront may be a good choice… more »
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    8th
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    Overview

    Amazon CloudFront is a global content delivery network (CDN) service that accelerates delivery of your websites, APIs, video content or other web assets. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services products to give developers and businesses an easy way to accelerate content to end users with no minimum usage commitments. Amazon CloudFront can be used to deliver your entire website, including dynamic, static, streaming, and interactive content using a global network of edge locations. Requests for your content are automatically routed to the nearest edge location, so content is delivered with the best possible performance. Amazon CloudFront is optimized to work with other Amazon Web Services, like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon Route 53. Amazon CloudFront also works seamlessly with any non-AWS origin server, which stores the original, definitive versions of your files. Like other Amazon Web Services products, there are no long-term contracts or minimum monthly usage commitments for using Amazon CloudFront – you pay only for as much or as little content as you actually deliver through the content delivery service.

    AWS Global Accelerator is a service that improves the availability and performance of your applications with local or global users. It provides static IP addresses that act as a fixed entry point to your application endpoints in a single or multiple AWS Regions, such as your Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers or Amazon EC2 instances.

    AWS Global Accelerator uses the AWS global network to optimize the path from your users to your applications, improving the performance of your TCP and UDP traffic. AWS Global Accelerator continually monitors the health of your application endpoints and redirects traffic to healthy endpoints in less than 30 seconds.

    Sample Customers
    Unilever, Spotify, Pinterest, MLB Advanced Media, Foursquare, PBS, Airbnb, Netflix, WIX, Comcast, Automobili Lamborghini, Rovio, Discovery Communications
    Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
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    Financial Services Firm38%
    Integrator8%
    Retailer8%
    Comms Service Provider8%
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    Educational Organization20%
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Manufacturing Company6%
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    Computer Software Company22%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    University7%
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    Small Business46%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise39%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise28%
    Large Enterprise54%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise66%
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    Amazon CloudFront is ranked 4th in CDN with 17 reviews while AWS Global Accelerator is ranked 8th in CDN. Amazon CloudFront is rated 8.0, while AWS Global Accelerator is rated 0.0. 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, Amazon CloudFront is most compared with Azure Front Door, Akamai, Cloudflare, Windows Azure CDN and Imperva DDoS, whereas AWS Global Accelerator is most compared with Azure Front Door, Cloudflare, Akamai, Imperva DDoS and Windows Azure CDN.

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