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Amazon CloudFront vs jsDelivr: What are the differences?
Amazon CloudFront: Content delivery with low latency and high data transfer speeds. 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; jsDelivr: A free Open Source CDN for webmasters and developers. Unlike the competition, jsDelivr uses multiple CDN providers, resulting in the best possible uptime and performance. We currently use MaxCDN, CloudFlare, and KeyCDN.
Amazon CloudFront and jsDelivr can be categorized as "Content Delivery Network" tools.
Some of the features offered by Amazon CloudFront are:
- 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.
On the other hand, jsDelivr provides the following key features:
- Open Source
- Multi-CDN
- Smart Load Balancing
"Fast" is the top reason why over 245 developers like Amazon CloudFront, while over 7 developers mention "Its fast" as the leading cause for choosing jsDelivr.
jsDelivr is an open source tool with 2.69K GitHub stars and 1.9K GitHub forks. Here's a link to jsDelivr's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Amazon CloudFront has a broader approval, being mentioned in 3387 company stacks & 621 developers stacks; compared to jsDelivr, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.
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
Pros of Amazon CloudFront
- Fast245
- Cdn166
- Compatible with other aws services157
- Simple125
- Global108
- Cheap41
- Cost-effective36
- Reliable27
- One stop solution19
- Elastic9
- Object store1
- HTTP/2 Support1
Pros of jsDelivr
- Its fast9
- Diverse POPs and support8
- Free8
- Many packages available7
- Load multiple files with single HTTP request6
- Auto-minification by changing url extension to .min.js3
- View pkg download statistics per week/month/year3
- Can add OSS packages I use3
- Worked in China2
- Easy setup, great cdn1
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Cons of Amazon CloudFront
- UI could use some work3
- Invalidations take so long1
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