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Developers requiring a solution to deliver content with low latency and high transfer speeds

About Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds, all within a developer-friendly environment. CloudFront is integrated with AWS – both physical locations that are directly connected to the AWS global infrastructure, as well as other AWS services. CloudFront works seamlessly with services including AWS Shield for DDoS mitigation, Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing or Amazon EC2 as origins for your applications, and Lambda@Edge to run custom code closer to customers’ users and to customize the user experience. Lastly, if you use AWS origins such as Amazon S3, Amazon EC2 or Elastic Load Balancing, you don’t pay for any data transferred between these services and CloudFront. Customize the code you run at the AWS content delivery network (CDN) edge using serverless compute features to balance cost, performance, and security.

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Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 4.0 / 5
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Founded: 1994
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Amazon CloudFront Product Features

CDN

Video Streaming
Software Downloads
Content Acceleration
Managed CDN
Transparent Caching
Reporting/Analytics
Load Balancing
Multi-CDN Switching
DDoS Protection
Web Application Firewalls (WAF)

Serverless

API Proxy
Application Integration
Data Stores
Developer Tooling
Orchestration
Reporting / Analytics
Serverless Computing
Storage

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  • An Amazon CloudFront User
    Software Developer
    Used the software for: Less than 6 months
    Frequency of Use: Weekly
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 100 - 499
    Design
    Ease
    Features
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    "Great Content Delivery Network"

    Posted 2020-08-24

    Pros: Easy setup.
    Global network of servers - fast speeds and reliability.
    Highly configurable.
    Integrates well with other AWS services.
    Part of the free tier.
    Pay as you pricing model.

    Cons: Although i have not used support yet but the only con i found is that Customer support costs extra.

    Overall: Amazon CloudFront is a CDN which can speed up your website or webapp performance by distributing data to multiple edge locations around the globe and serving the user from nearest location. It provides lots of advanced features and has a pay as you go model making it affordable even for small scale apps.

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