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Amazon CloudFront vs KeyCDN: 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; KeyCDN: A CDN crafted with ease and simplicity in mind - speed up your website. KeyCDN is a superfast Content Delivery Network with best prices on the market. This CDN allows you to accelerate any kind of content.
Amazon CloudFront and KeyCDN can be primarily classified 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, KeyCDN provides the following key features:
- HTTP/2 support
- Free automated Let's Encrypt SSL
- Pay-as-you-go pricing
"Fast" is the top reason why over 245 developers like Amazon CloudFront, while over 39 developers mention "Pay-as-you-go" as the leading cause for choosing KeyCDN.
According to the StackShare community, Amazon CloudFront has a broader approval, being mentioned in 3387 company stacks & 621 developers stacks; compared to KeyCDN, which is listed in 34 company stacks and 12 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 KeyCDN
- Pay-as-you-go40
- Cheapest cdn pricing ever38
- Easy setup27
- No subscription27
- Free shared ssl23
- Fastest cdn i've ever used21
- Cheap17
- Ssd-optimized edge servers16
- Great support15
- Quick support14
- Free Custom SSL7
- Supports HTTP/2 and available globally5
- No time limit for spending credit4
- Build for developers3
- Support Let's Encrypt3
- Supports SPDY2
- Server from Turkey2
- 5 zones included2
- Easy as pie to setup2
- Brotli Support2
- No credit card required for free trial2
- Real-time Log Forwarding2
- Fastest CDN1
- Easy to setup & improve website loading speed1
- Haven't had much time to tinker, but YES1
- Its very reliable and easy to use1
- Great customer support, easy setup1
- A very capable CDN with an affordable price tag0
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Cons of Amazon CloudFront
- UI could use some work3
- Invalidations take so long1