Amazon CloudFront

Fantastic CDN for platform level delivery accelleration

What do you like best? Incredibly easy to setup, absolutely brilliant technology, it just works and works well. You can quickly deploy your S3 content to endpoints around the world, secure them with an SSL provided by AWS, and do virtually no extra work from a development standpoint. What do you dislike? The cache invalidation can be tricky if you work in an environment where assets are updated. I would highly recommend versioning the files rather than updating them. Recommendations to ...

Awesome experience

What do you like best? What i really enjoyed is the free tier in the first year. This made me go for it instead of other options, so i can try it in a proper way. That way i can Analyse performance , costs, etc I've also read a lot about them against competition and most of the reviews were awesome. I also liked that i could "easily" install my WordPress website, without much hassle. What do you dislike? Not really intuitive for beginners, but got used to in a short time after ...

Another Amazing product from Amazon

What do you like best? I have been big fan of amazon cloud technologies and this is one of the best thing you can get under the hood of amazon. The best thing is that using Amazon CloudFront your video is automatically distributed to servers across the world and due to that the live stream flows really smoothly. What do you dislike? The tool is bit difficult to use as it has really rick features it is bit difficult to find the features which you want to use. It takes bit long to ...

CloudFront is very fast and easy to use

What do you like best? Cloudfront is very easy to use for things like caching static assets for rails applications. Its simple to configure, very fast and supports SSL. If you use rails in particular, it only takes a couple of steps of configuration to make it deliver asset-pipeline assets for you (JS, CSS, images. Dramatically improves performance, particularly for large payloads. What do you dislike? If you want to use it for something not automatic, like Rails, it requires a bit of ...

Performance and Features

What do you like best? Initially though cloudfront seemed something simple to grasp on and deploy quickly. What might appear to be a daunting task is done pretty quickly by it. The documentation, AWS support along with AWS CLI is incredible combination for all our needs, being a developer or sys-admin. What do you dislike? Sometimes the speed lacks way more than other competitors like those based on Akamai. Particularly for India, we sometimes do not get a competitive enough speed on ...

CloudFront clean and simple.

What do you like best? It's pricing, simplicity and range of settings. It allows you to configure almost everything but you're not forced into doing so and can easily change the settings later. The pricing is the most straight forward of any other tool (other than Free cloudfront. What do you dislike? Asset ejection/expiration after 24 hours. Some settings are a bit magical and the docs lack detailed information. Stackoverflow is often necessary to figure out some hidden details such as ...

CloudFront: A fast path to solve content delivery requirements.

What do you like best? - Well designed administrative interface. - Intuitive UI. - Integrates easily with other Amazon services, (S3, Route, etc.. - Mainly for static media content. - The right amount of features for each kind of media supported. - What do you dislike? As sysadmin, sometimes we like to optimize and change some things under the hood of our infrastructure; but that can't be done with Amazon services directly without spend some effort. But there is a lot of ...

CloudFront is effective for providing access to media across the globe

What do you like best? I've used CloudFront before for providing access to media across multiple AWS regions, and it has improved latency for end users. What do you dislike? Can't find anything I don't like about CloudFront at all. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Improving network latency for media downloads

a great tool but it can improve

What do you like best? easy to set up, efficient cdn, easier enforcement of https What do you dislike? modifying a distribution takes up to 1 hour to take effect without any feedback Recommendations to others considering the product be patient and always test your cdn changes first What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? cdn to static apps, or react frontends

Cloudfront review

What do you like best? It is very easy to set up, especially if your source is in S3. What do you dislike? A single file is limited to 20GB, which in today's day and age, is insufficient. Recommendations to others considering the product Increase document size support to at least 500GB per file. Multimedia files are large, noise files are larger. There is no need to limit it to 20GB if S3 can support unlimited object size. What business problems are you solving with the product? What ...