Amazon CloudFront vs. Cloudflare

Amazon CloudFront

111 Reviews and Ratings

Cloudflare

524 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon CloudFront	Score6.8 out of 10	N/A	CloudFront is the content delivery network (CDN) from Amazon Web Services.	$0.02
Cloudflare	Score8.8 out of 10	N/A	Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud is a unified platform of cloud-native services designed to help enterprises regain control over their IT environments. Powered by an intelligent, programmable global cloud network, it is built to offer security, performance, visibility, and reliability.	$20 per month

Pricing

Amazon CloudFront

Cloudflare

Over 5PB: $0.02
Next 524TB: $0.03
Next 4PB: $0.03
Next 350TB: $0.04
Next 100TB: $0.06
Next 40TB: $0.08
First 10TB: $0.09

Pro: $20
per month
Business: $200
per month
Free: Free
Enterprise: Contact sales team

Pricing Offerings
Amazon CloudFront	Cloudflare
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Amazon CloudFront	Cloudflare
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Andrew Raines Backend Software Engineer in Information Technology at 10 Digital Media Limited (Sports, 1-10 employees) Chose Amazon CloudFront CloudFlare is another great CDN service. It comes with a lot of things set up of the box for you, and gives you a basic and reasonable set up straight away. It also has a free-tier for smaller sites. CloudFlare doesn't quite have the same level of configurability, however. … Incentivized Helpful? Ashish Agarwal Software Engineer in Engineering at Genpact (Information Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Amazon CloudFront Amazon CloudFront free Tier allows up to 50 GB of data transfer per month which is not there in any of the above. Amazon CloudFront provides detailed reporting around the most frequently used objects, monitoring and usage charts. Amazon CloudFront is suitable to help you … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon CloudFront Cloudfront is one of the oldest CDN with presence in a lot of locations. This really helps in making the content load faster in all the locations globally. Other products have also caught up with this but still AWS has a lot of other services which can be connected with the CDN … Incentivized Helpful? Carlos Becerra Senior Software Engineer & Project Manager in Information Technology at WiFiesta Inc (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Amazon CloudFront We use a great set of AWS features and it was easy to implement Amazon CloudFront. It fulfills our needs, and the learning curve was not difficult given the AWS configuration we already have. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon CloudFront If you are using other AWS services, then no other CDN can compete with AWS CloudFront. Its integration with WAF, Route53, ACM allow it to provide a whole ecosystem for building websites and using a CDN. It gives developers access to inexpensive, pay-as-you-go pricing. … Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Gardner Co-Founder at RouteThis (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Amazon CloudFront We ended up selecting CloudFront because we were already using an Amazon stack. To be honest, since we were already in the ecosystem there was little reason to deviate once we saw pricing was comparable. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Barretto CTO in Engineering at Cureus (Publishing, 1-10 employees) Chose Amazon CloudFront We went with CloudFront primarily because we have all of our other services with Amazon already. We are using EC2, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, and are very familiar with the interface. It did not disappoint. Incentivized Helpful? Joshua Dickson Director of Engineering in Engineering at NorthOut (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Amazon CloudFront CloudFront is well-suited for a particular use case with its native tie-ins to other Amazon/AWS services, like S3. If choosing from a platform-specific CDN, we tend to go with whichever CDN is available for use on that platform (e.g. Google or Azure). In rare cases we might … Incentivized Helpful?	Cloudflare Wenhan Rong DevOps Engineer in Information Technology at VirgoCX (Financial Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Cloudflare Amazon CloudFront is a highly scalable CDN service integrated with AWS. Couldflare provides us more other functions and services than Amazon CloudFront. Google Cloud CDN offers fast and reliable content delivery with integration into Google Cloud services. But we didn't deploy … Incentivized Helpful? Ben Gelsey Co-Creator in Engineering at Flights Machine (Leisure, Travel & Tourism, 1-10 employees) Chose Cloudflare Compared to Fastly and Amazon CloudFront, CloudFlare blows away the competition. It is incredible how much CloudFlare offers for free compared to these other solutions. With Fastly, expect a minimum bill of $50 per month, if not $X00 for decently trafficked sites. AWS … Incentivized Helpful? Bryan McAnulty Founder in Product Management at Velora Studios (Design, 1-10 employees) Chose Cloudflare Compared to CloudFront, CloudFlare provides a great deal of value beyond simply being a content delivery network (CDN). We have found ourselves in some cases using Amazon CloudFront in combination with CloudFlare because we might have a bunch of assets stored in Amazon S3 which … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Putnam Senior Web Developer in Engineering at WebpageFX (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Cloudflare Amazon CloudFront is a higher level CDN. It can require a bit more expertise and take some extra time to get working, but can provide better performance results. It can replace some of CloudFlare's functionality or be integrated with it. We often use CloudFlare for smaller … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cloudflare Cloudflare is on another level compared to any other CDN provider out there. One of the reasons is that encompasses all the tools into one big products instead of relying on many different products from many companies - DNS, CDN, WAF are all managed in one place and connected … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cloudflare Overall we are using Cloudflare as well as AWS cloud across various domains in our organization. To some extent such as DNS management on Route53, CloudFront takes advantage of Cloudflare as it provides a straightforward UI for DNS management. But when it comes to traffic … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cloudflare AWS Cloudfront is so poon in UI, features. Almost you cannot compare them because the scale is too large. Incentivized Helpful? Adam Hill CTO (Chief Technical Officer) in Information Technology at BioClinical Services (Hospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees) Chose Cloudflare Simple and consistent UX across the product suite. DNS + CDN layer complete with SSL is amazing Security layer built in Incentivized Helpful? Cetin Sert CEO (Chief Executive Officer) in Engineering at Elefunc, Inc. (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Cloudflare AWS EC2: Cloudflare does not have a comparable product. Cloudfront is up to 2x faster than Cloudflare caching! Incentivized Helpful? Vinay Thoke Digital Design Director at HUEDESK (Design, 1-10 employees) Chose Cloudflare It has been over six years since we started using Cloudflare. After using KeyCDN for just about a year, we think that it's not a bad CDN, but Cloudflare stands out because it offers so many other services simultaneously. There's not been a single domain that we purchased and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cloudflare Cloudflare is notably simpler and cheaper as compared to CloudFront. If we also consider the corresponding edge compute mechanism, CloudFront has more complexity in maintaining it. For instance, in order to maintain our A/B test stack on CloudFront, we need to maintain three … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cloudflare Cost-efficient and easy to use. Developer-friendly, unlike Fastly which is very complex to use. Several products combined in the same offering making it a single tool to solve several problems like CDN, Image Management, DDOS Prevention, Smart Network Routing. Incentivized Helpful? vinoth kumar Sr system administrator in Information Technology at Inoryasoft Pvt ltd (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Cloudflare Cloud flare is very easy to setup and use. It does come along with multiple security features which makes it to stand out of the crowd. The pricing is well suited for our usage. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cloudflare Cloudflare proved to be the winning choice over its competitors because it was the only solution that's so complete. The other solutions we analyzed were convincing for the caching/CDN aspect but had gaps in other aspects such as security or DDoS protection. Cloudflare also … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cloudflare Cloudflare was 4x cheaper to use as our image CDN over Cloudfront for the same content in our AWS S3 bucket. Incentivized Helpful? Ryan Hoyt Marketing Director in Marketing at 77HAUS (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Cloudflare We use CloudFront in combination with Cloudflare on some of our sites where the content is stored on AWS servers. It works well together as long as the records are set up properly. Ultimately we use Cloudflare as an easier solution to integrate with and one that is bulletproof … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cloudflare Cloudflare is a full DNS and load balancing system. AWS CloudFront handles load balancing and DDoS prevention, but on its own requires other services to handle DNS and various other features that are baked directly into Cloudflare. If you're hosting on AWS already, using the … Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Gardner Director of Customer Experience at RouteThis (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Cloudflare We used to use Cloud front as our CDN but the pricing was leagues higher than Cloudflare's. Similar reliability and ease of use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cloudflare Cloudflare and CloudFront are both great tools. I would recommend Cloudflare for sites that are not hosted on Amazon, and CloudFront for sites using Amazon Web Services. The pricing and features are comparable. Overall, Cloudflare's free tier offers more services, which gives … Incentivized Helpful? Joshua Dickson Director of Engineering in Engineering at NorthOut (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Cloudflare CloudFlare shines in a situation where you need a low-cost solution that can be un-integrated with other aspects of your deployment. For websites that have larger DDoS risk, their DDoS solutions are also attractive. Up-market, their enterprise offerings are on par with services … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cloudflare Cloudflare outperforms in majority of the categories such as Ease of Use, Pricing Transparency, Security & Edge computing capabilities with global network reach. Cloudflare is known for providing a seamless onboarding experience for users of varying technical expertise in … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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TrustRadius Insights
	Amazon CloudFront	Cloudflare
Highlights	Research Team Insight Published September 24, 2020 Amazon CloudFront and Cloudflare are both content delivery networks. Cloudflare is a comprehensive product that includes DDoS protection and web firewall along with a CDN. CloudFront is the CDN portion of Amazon Web Services, and works as an add-on for those who already use AWS. As a single product with many features, Cloudflare is most popular with smaller businesses looking for a single solution for all their website security and performance needs, while Amazon CloudFront is favored by large businesses that need multiple, fully-featured products that work together. Features Though Amazon CloudFront and Cloudflare have similar offerings, there are some significant differences between them. CloudFront is an umbrella product that, depending on your pricing tier, includes DDoS attack mitigation, web firewall, mobile optimization, cache analysis and more, in addition to its CDN which is a standard feature at every tier. Each pricing tier includes guaranteed support via chat or email, and the free tier is robust enough that many small businesses never have to move to a paid plan. The DNS manager makes it fast and simple to move websites to different nameservers. Amazon CloudFront is the CDN portion of Amazon Web Services. Businesses who already use other parts of AWS find that CloudFront integrates seamlessly with their other AWS services. Like Cloudflare, CloudFront has a free tier, but CloudFront pricing tiers are separated by usage, not services offered. Those with relatively low usage on their sites may find this pricing structure to their liking. Limitations Both products have drawbacks that are unique to them. Cloudflare can cache aggressively, leaving users confused as to why no new content is available.Additionally, support at the free tier is hit or miss, and the user interface is a bit clunky. Amazon CloudFront works well for large businesses that already use AWS, but for small businesses without AWS it may not make sense to commit to several different services under the AWS umbrella when one will suffice. Additionally, usage-based pricing may result in a large bill when there is an unexpected traffic spike. CloudFront can be difficult to set up and use for folks who are new to CDN. Pricing As mentioned above, Cloudflare and CloudFront are priced quite differently. Cloudflare’s pricing is service based: above the free tier they have Pro at $20 per month and Business at $200 per month, and the Enterprise tier is custom priced. CloudFront has a free tier, and pricing above that tier is based on usage. They also offer custom bundled pricing for customers who are willing to make certain minimum traffic commitments.

User Ratings
	Amazon CloudFront	Cloudflare
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (17 ratings)	9.2 (173 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (4 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (1 ratings)	8.6 (8 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (2 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	7.0 (4 ratings)	9.0 (141 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.6 (2 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)