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."We can personalize a lot of things inside CDN."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the availability of the websites."
"The speed and usability of the solution are valuable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the speed of delivery."
"It is stable."
"The product is very well interconnected with other Amazon services."
"The solution has many features that are comprehensive."
"The most valuable feature is the number of servers they can put your content in while being reliable."
"The most valuable feature is the web application firewall."
"Smaller businesses have seen great ROI due to the low investment and strong performance."
"The solution offers the flexibility to control configuration rules."
"Easier http to https redirect using page rules"
"The technical support is good."
"It is easier to configure and develop documentation to see how we have configured firewalls."
"Generally, I am satisfied with this product."
"I rate its stability a ten out of ten."
"A lot of caching features must be added to the solution."
"I have utilized certain characteristics and invested effort in reading the documentation, which proved to be challenging."
"During the setup phase, there were some hiccups in terms of security, the user role, and the permissions."
"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 user interface could be improved."
"The UI could be more user-friendly."
"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."
"The product could support any network load balancer. At present, we can use only Amazon’s load balancer application."
"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."
"The product needs to improve its automation."
"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."
"I would like Cloudflare to offer a dedicated account manager for large enterprise clients like us."
"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."
"Cloudflare could offer a better view or maybe dashboards of the main resources used in the client."
"The timing aspect can lead to it being considered overpriced. This is a particular concern we have with Cloudflare, as they may struggle with accurately detecting the client."
"I think the APIs are a little bit hard for us to work with. The APIs could be more open so that we could integrate better with our SolarWinds or our monitoring solution."
Amazon CloudFront is ranked 4th in CDN with 14 reviews while Cloudflare is ranked 1st in CDN with 55 reviews. Amazon CloudFront is rated 7.8, 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 Microsoft Azure Application Gateway. See our Amazon CloudFront vs. Cloudflare report.
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