Company
CloudFront is the CDN of AWS (Amazon Web Services), the world's largest cloud services provider. CloudFront offers a mature set of content delivery products and has a big network of POPs on many continents. Solid documentation and APIs make CloudFront a developer-friendly CDN.
CloudFront website
Products
View the table below for more insight into CloudFront products.
Hover over/touch the product to view a short description.
= Yes
= Sort of/partially
= No
= Unknown
| Product | |
|---|---|
| Dynamic content delivery | Dynamic Content Delivery |
| Small file delivery | |
| Large file delivery | |
| Live video | Streaming Media |
| Video on demand | |
| Image Optimization | |
| DNS | AWS Route53 |
| WAF | AWS WAF |
| Anti-DDoS | AWS Shield |
| Private CDN | |
| Edge Compute | [email protected] |
Network
CloudFront has POPs on almost all continents including a good presence in Asia and even mainland China (4 POPs).
CloudFront network map
Click the country flag icon to navigate to a page showing all CDNs with POP(s) in that country.
Locations marked with * are not active yet but on the CDN's roadmap.
| Region | POPs | Locations |
|---|---|---|
| North America | 24 |  Ashburn - Atlanta - Boston - Chicago - Dallas - Denver - Hayward - Hillsboro - Houston - Jacksonville - Los Angeles - Miami - Minneapolis - New York - Newark - Palo Alto - Philadelphia - Phoenix - Salt Lake City - San Jose - Seattle - South Bend Montreal - Toronto |
| Latin America | 6 |  Buenos Aires Rio de Janeiro - São Paulo Santiago Bogotá Querétaro |
| Europe | 26 |  Vienna Sofia Zurich Prague Berlin - Frankfurt - Hamburg - Munich Copenhagen Madrid Helsinki Marseille - Paris London - Manchester Athens Budapest Dublin Milan - Palermo - Rome Amsterdam Oslo Warsaw Bucharest Stockholm |
| Russia & CIS | 0 | |
| Asia excl. China | 15 |  Hong Kong Osaka - Tokyo Bangalore - Chennai - Hyderabad - Kolkata - Mumbai - New Delhi Kuala Lumpur Seoul Manila Singapore Bangkok Taipei |
| China | 4 |  Beijing - Shenzhen - Shanghai - Zhongwei |
| Oceania | 4 |  Melbourne - Perth - Sydney Auckland |
| Middle-East | 4 |  Dubai - Fujairah Manama Tel Aviv |
| Africa | 3 |  Nairobi Johannesburg - Cape Town |
Pricing
CloudFront is Pay As You Go with tiered pricing. Discounted rates are available based on a commit in an annual contract. With CloudFront, you can lower the prices you pay to deliver content out of Amazon CloudFront by selecting a non-default Price Class (not all POPs turned on). Customer cert HTTPS is free (SNI) or $600/m if you need non-SNI.
CloudFront pricing
| Pricing & contract duration | |
|---|---|
| Minimum contract term | None |
| Minimum monthly costs | None |
| Requests costs | $0.0075 - $0.022 per 10k requests |
| Ingress costs | $0.02 - $0.16 per GB (free if origin is AWS) |
| NA/EU traffic (low volume) | $0.085 per GB |
| APAC traffic (low volume) | $0.14 per GB (India: $0.17) |
| LATAM traffic (low volume) | $0.11 per GB |
Features
View the tables below for more insight into the features CloudFront supports.
Hover over/touch the feature name to view a short description.
- = Yes
- = Sort of/partially
- = No
= Extra costs- = Unknown
| Web acceleration | |
|---|---|
| Instant setup | |
| Change propagation delay | ~10 minutes |
Apex/root domain OK  |
Only if used together with AWS Route53 |
| HTTP/2 | HTTP/2 announcement (Sep 2016) |
| IPv6 | IPv6 support announcement (Oct 2016) |
| Compression |
Resend from origin, or compress on edge
|
| Origin pull - protocol | HTTP and HTTPS |
| Origin pull - Host header | Can't configure specific other Host header |
| Origin Shield |
Origin Shield docs |
| Push / upload | |
| Cache control - CDN caching | |
| Cache control - client caching | |
| Serve Stale |
No Cache-Control extensions support |
| Purge |
1 minute or faster |
| Purge - capabilities | Purge all and by directory/file type (wildcards) |
| Analytics | Amazon CloudFront Reports & Analytics |
| Log files | Only delivered to S3
|
| API | Purge, analytics, configuration |
| HTTPS & Content Protection | |
|---|---|
| CDN domain HTTPS | Free (not SNI) |
| Customer domain HTTPS | |
| Customer cert HTTPS | Free (SNI) or $600/m for non-SNI |
| Token authentication | Serving Private Content through CloudFront |
| Geo blocking | Restricting the Geographic Distribution of Your Content |
| Hotlink protection | Use AWS WAF for Referer Checking |
| Basic authentication | |
| IP white/blacklisting | Use AWS WAF to Block IP Addresses |
Support
| Customer support | |
|---|---|
| Documentation | Yes, public. API docs |
| Humans | Community support is free. Email and phone support (AWS Support) available at extra costs |