Amazon CloudFront vs CloudFlare vs KeyCDN

Overview

Amazon CloudFront

Stacks21.5K

Followers10.8K

Votes935

CloudFlare

Stacks77.6K

Followers23.1K

Votes1.8K

KeyCDN

Stacks141

Followers141

Votes279

Advice on Amazon CloudFront, CloudFlare, KeyCDN

Francesco

CTO at ORDR.menu

Dec 1, 2021

Decided

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	CloudFlare	KeyCDN
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.	Cloudflare speeds up and protects millions of websites, APIs, SaaS services, and other properties connected to the Internet.	KeyCDN offers super fast and secure content delivery for minimal loading time. In addition to the CDN, it also offers advanced image processing and many other features such as live logs and Let's Encrypt SSL.
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.	CDN;WAF (Web Application Firewall);DDOS Protection;	Powerful image processing;HTTP/2 support;Free automated Let's Encrypt SSL;Pay-as-you-go pricing;No commitment / No subscription / No package;Push and Pull Functionality;Shared and Custom SSL;Restful API;Live streaming and video on demand (VOD);Raw log files available;Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS);GZip compression;Force downloads; Real-time logs; Origin-Shield; HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)
Statistics
Stacks 21.5K	Stacks 77.6K	Stacks 141
Followers 10.8K	Followers 23.1K	Followers 141
Votes 935	Votes 1.8K	Votes 279
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 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	Pros 40 Pay-as-you-go 38 Cheapest cdn pricing ever 27 Easy setup 27 No subscription 23 Free shared ssl
Integrations
No integrations available	CodeGuard Google Analytics GoSquared Clicky UserVoice SnapEngage Blitz Pingdom	CakePHP Logentries Amazon S3 Zend Framework gulp WordPress Laravel Drupal Django Magento

What are some alternatives to Amazon CloudFront, CloudFlare, KeyCDN?

Fastly

Fastly's real-time content delivery network gives you total control over your content, unprecedented access to performance analytics, and the ability to instantly update content in 150 milliseconds.

MaxCDN

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.

jsDelivr

jsDelivr is a free CDN for open source developers, with advanced features for javascript projects with access to NPM and Github It uses multiple CDN providers, resulting in the best possible uptime and performance.

Moovweb XDN

All-in-one platform to develop, deploy, preview, experiment on, monitor, and run your frontend.

Limelight CDN

Whether it’s your website, mobile applications, videos, music, software, games, or APIs, your content needs to reach customers quickly, reliably, and securely. It provides the capacity, coverage, and performance to cost-effectively deliver a better experience for you and your customers.

cdnjs

Everyone loves the Google CDN? Even Microsoft runs their own CDN. The problem is, they only host the most popular libraries. We host it all - JavaScript, CSS, SWF, images, etc! Powered by CloudFlare.

Statically

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

Incapsula

Through an application-aware, global content delivery network (CDN), Incapsula provides any website and web application with best-of-breed security, DDoS protection, load balancing and failover solutions.

Cloudflare CDN

A CDN is a distributed network of servers that provides several advantages for a web site: Cached content: By caching web site content, It helps improve page load speeds, reduce bandwidth usage, and reduce CPU usage on the server.