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Amazon CloudFront vs MaxCDN: What are the differences?
What is 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.
What is MaxCDN? Our CDN makes your site load faster!. 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.
Amazon CloudFront and MaxCDN belong to "Content Delivery Network" category of the tech stack.
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, MaxCDN provides the following key features:
- 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.
"Fast" is the top reason why over 245 developers like Amazon CloudFront, while over 46 developers mention "Easy setup" as the leading cause for choosing MaxCDN.
Airbnb, Spotify, and Dropbox are some of the popular companies that use Amazon CloudFront, whereas MaxCDN is used by Stack Exchange, Disqus, and Accenture. Amazon CloudFront has a broader approval, being mentioned in 3387 company stacks & 621 developers stacks; compared to MaxCDN, which is listed in 887 company stacks and 109 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 MaxCDN
- Easy setup47
- Speed to my clients33
- Great service & Customer Support15
- Shared and Affordable SSL5
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Cons of Amazon CloudFront
- UI could use some work3
- Invalidations take so long1
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