Amazon CloudFront is AWS's content delivery network for distributing content with low latency, tightly integrated with other AWS services. It serves from 600+ points of presence on a global anycast network using usage-based per-GB pricing, with an always-free allowance of 1 TB of monthly data transfer out. DDoS protection is included via AWS Shield Standard, while AWS WAF is available as a separate service. Founded in 2008, CloudFront carries a broad compliance set including SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and FedRAMP. It is well suited to teams already delivering content from the AWS ecosystem.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2008
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
CDN
- Edge locations
- 600+ PoPs
- Free tier
- AWS Free Tier: 1 TB/mo data transfer out (always-free)
- Starting price
- Usage / bandwidth-based
- DDoS protection
- Yes
- WAF included
- No
- Global anycast
- Yes
- Bandwidth model
- Usage based