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Amazon CloudFront vs CloudFlare vs MaxCDN

Overview

Amazon CloudFront

Stacks21.5K

Followers10.8K

Votes935

MaxCDN

Stacks1.6K

Followers553

Votes100

CloudFlare

Stacks77.6K

Followers23.1K

Votes1.8K

Advice on Amazon CloudFront, MaxCDN, CloudFlare

Francesco

CTO at ORDR.menu

Dec 1, 2021

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I don't think I have registered a domain in the last 10 years that hasn't been linked to CloudFlare within the first 2 hours from registration.

The benefits you get from even the free version of CloudFlare are amazing. From day 0: - 30/80% of bandwidth savings thanks to their CDN - Origin IP address protection - Managed SSL

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Detailed Comparison

Amazon CloudFront	MaxCDN	CloudFlare
Amazon CloudFront can be used to deliver your entire website, including dynamic, static, streaming, and interactive content using a global network of edge locations. Requests for your content are automatically routed to the nearest edge location, so content is delivered with the best possible performance.	The MaxCDN Content Delivery Network efficiently delivers your site’s static file through hundreds of servers instead of slogging through a single host. This "smart route" technology distributes your content to your visitors via the city closest to them.	Cloudflare speeds up and protects millions of websites, APIs, SaaS services, and other properties connected to the Internet.
Fast- Using a network of edge locations around the world, Amazon CloudFront caches copies of your static content close to viewers, lowering latency when they download your objects and giving you the high, sustained data transfer rates needed to deliver large popular objects to end users at scale.;Simple- A single API call lets you get started distributing content from your Amazon S3 bucket or Amazon EC2 instance or other origin server through the Amazon CloudFront network.;Designed for use with other Amazon Web Services Amazon CloudFront is designed for use with other Amazon Web Services, including Amazon S3, where you can durably store the definitive versions of your static files, and Amazon EC2, where you can run your application server for dynamically generated content.;Cost-Effective- Amazon CloudFront passes on the benefits of Amazon’s scale to you. You pay only for the content that you deliver through the network, without minimum commitments or up-front fees.;Elastic- With Amazon CloudFront, you don’t need to worry about maintaining expensive web-server capacity to meet the demand from potential traffic spikes for your content. The service automatically responds as demand increases or decreases without any intervention from you.;Reliable- Amazon CloudFront is built using Amazon’s highly reliable infrastructure. The distributed nature of edge locations used by Amazon CloudFront automatically routes end users to the closest available location as required by network conditions.;Global- Amazon CloudFront uses a global network of edge locations, located near your end users in the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America.	We Make You Fast- With our fast-growing network of multiple PoP locations in all parts of the globe, we mirror your content and deliver it to the neared location to your visitors. It isn't just our network that is fast, but with our state-of-art hardware, fast RAM and SSD storage, content is served at lightning fast speeds.;We Have Your Back- To ensure that you do not have any downtime, we have deployed redundant networks and intelligent routing that ensures selecting an alternative route if a network pathway is down.;We Help You Rank- Using MaxCDN will help you improve your website speed, and since this is now a ranking factor used by Google and other search engines for deciding search results, deploying MaxCDN will help you rank better, giving you more traffic.;We Help You Track- Our flexible and configurable reporting tool will allow you to track bandwidth usage, cache hits and multiple other parameters on an overall as well as per zone-basis.;HTTP Referrer Protection to prevent hot-linking, customizable caching of query strings, and the ability to use a custom robot.txt are supported.;MaxCDN also supports SSL with instant SSL setup of shared, custom, as well as wildcard SSL and other SSL-related features	CDN;WAF (Web Application Firewall);DDOS Protection;
Statistics
Stacks 21.5K	Stacks 1.6K	Stacks 77.6K
Followers 10.8K	Followers 553	Followers 23.1K
Votes 935	Votes 100	Votes 1.8K
Pros & Cons
Pros 245 Fast 166 Cdn 157 Compatible with other aws services 125 Simple 108 Global Cons 3 UI could use some work 1 Invalidations take so long	Pros 47 Easy setup 33 Speed to my clients 15 Great service & Customer Support 5 Shared and Affordable SSL	Pros 426 Easy setup, great cdn 278 Free ssl 200 Easy setup 191 Security 181 Ssl Cons 2 No support for SSHFP records 2 Expensive when you exceed their fair usage limits
Integrations
No integrations available	WordPress New Relic	CodeGuard Google Analytics GoSquared Clicky UserVoice SnapEngage Blitz Pingdom

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KeyCDN

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Fastly

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Limelight CDN

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cdnjs

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Statically

A free, fast, & modern CDN for open source projects, WordPress, images, and any static assets.

Incapsula

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Cloudflare CDN

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