AWS Global Accelerator vs Azure Front Door comparison

We compared AWS Global Accelerator and Azure Front Door based on our user's reviews in several parameters.

AWS Global Accelerator and Azure Front Door both offer efficient network infrastructure, reliable performance, and seamless integration with other services. While AWS Global Accelerator focuses on enhanced availability, failover capabilities, and comprehensive monitoring tools, Azure Front Door prioritizes scalability, powerful security measures, and simplified content delivery. Customers praise both for customer service, setup costs, and flexibility in licensing. However, AWS Global Accelerator needs improvements in performance and configuration options, whereas Azure Front Door could enhance platform stability and user-friendly configuration processes.

Features: AWS Global Accelerator offers efficient and reliable network infrastructure, superior performance in improving latency and connection speeds, enhanced availability and failover capabilities, comprehensive monitoring and analytics tools, and seamless integration with other AWS services. On the other hand, Azure Front Door is valued for its efficient traffic management and routing, powerful security measures, scalability and high availability, seamless integration with other Azure services, simplified content delivery, improved performance, enhanced user experience, and robust monitoring and analytics capabilities for optimizing application delivery.

Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for AWS Global Accelerator is reported to be straightforward and uncomplicated, offering a smooth onboarding process. Users have mentioned that AWS Global Accelerator provides flexible licensing options. In comparison, feedback on Azure Front Door includes discussions on pricing, setup costs, and licensing experiences., AWS Global Accelerator has shown remarkable efficiency in optimizing global reach and reducing downtime, resulting in increased customer satisfaction. Azure Front Door offers scalability and simplicity in integrating with other Azure services, contributing to a higher ROI.

Room for Improvement: AWS Global Accelerator could benefit from enhancements in performance, configuration options, and reliability. Users want improved network routing and more control over traffic distribution. Better visibility and monitoring tools are also important. Azure Front Door needs improvement in performance, stability, configuration process, error handling, troubleshooting capabilities, customization options, and security concerns.

Deployment and customer support: Based on user feedback, both AWS Global Accelerator and Azure Front Door have varying durations for deployment, setup, and implementation. However, while some users of AWS Global Accelerator reported spending a week each for deployment and setup, Azure Front Door users required three months for deployment and an additional week for setup., AWS Global Accelerator received positive remarks for their customer service and support, with users praising the prompt and knowledgeable responses from the support team. Azure Front Door also received positive feedback, with users appreciating the efficient and helpful assistance provided by the team.

The summary above is based on 7 interviews we conducted recently with AWS Global Accelerator and Azure Front Door users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.