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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon CloudFront

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/ACloudFront is the content delivery network (CDN) from Amazon Web Services.

    $0.02

    Cloudinary

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/ACloudinary is an image and video management tool enabling users to manage, optimize, and deliver images, videos and other media across every device and channel.

    $49

    per month

    Pricing
    Amazon CloudFrontCloudinary
    Editions & Modules
    Over 5PB
    $0.02
    Next 524TB
    $0.03
    Next 4PB
    $0.03
    Next 350TB
    $0.04
    Next 100TB
    $0.06
    Next 40TB
    $0.08
    First 10TB
    $0.09
    Media Optimizer - Scale
    $49
    per month
    Programmable Media - Plus
    $99
    per month
    Programmable Media - Advanced
    $249
    per month
    Programmable Media - Enterprise
    Custom Pricing
    Digital Asset Management
    Custom Pricing
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon CloudFrontCloudinary
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    90%
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Amazon CloudFrontCloudinary
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Amazon CloudFront and Cloudinary
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    Ratings
    Cloudinary
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    24% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Data exportability00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Content analytics00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    DAM Features
    Comparison of DAM Features features of Amazon CloudFront and Cloudinary
    Feature
    Amazon CloudFront
    -
    Ratings
    Cloudinary
    9.6
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Uploading assets00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Downloading assets00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Categories00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Asset storage00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Asset sharing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Asset search00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Tagging system00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Content editing00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Metadata00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    User access00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    DAM Integrations00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    DAM API00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Amazon CloudFrontCloudinary
    Small Businesses
    Google Cloud CDN
    Score7.5 out of 10
    Adobe Bridge
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Google Cloud CDN
    Score7.5 out of 10
    MediaValet
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Azure CDN
    Score7.1 out of 10
    MediaValet
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon CloudFrontCloudinary
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (17 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon CloudFrontCloudinary
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    Amazon CloudFront is the perfect solution for any type of company. If a company is small or medium size, CloudFront offers 1 TB monthly free bandwidth which is more than for any small and medium size companies. If we compare the speed of CloudFront with other CDN, CloudFront is way ahead of their competitors and with 1 TB free bandwidth. If someone is ready to invest time in CloudFront documentation then he/she definitely go for it.
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    Cloudinary
    Cloudinary handles pretty much anything you have related to images. From serving them up efficiently to adding transformations on the fly, there's really little this service doesn't do. Their pricing plans allow you to grow into the right levels and their website dashboards are very helpful. I would easily recommend this for all but the simplest of use cases.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • if a website’s static data are based in New York City, people in Boston will get the content faster than people in San Francisco or Tokyo. The farther away customers are from a company’s data center, the slower the website or application loads. This problem can be fixed with a content delivery network like Amazon CloudFront
    • When a visitor requests a file from your website, Amazon CloudFront automatically sends the request to a copy of the file at the nearest edge location. This results in faster download times.
    • You may have great hosting but it doesn’t have the capacity or scalability offered by Google, Microsoft or Yahoo. The better CDNs like Amazon CloudFront offer higher availability, lower network latency and lower packet loss.
    • Amazon CloudFront provides 24/7 email and phone support
    • Amazon CloudFront Free Tier allows you to free up to 50 GB of data transfer and 2,000,000 HTTP and HTTPS requests / month for one year.
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    Cloudinary
    • Cloudinary is the best in the market for photo and video transformations.
    • Cloudinary takes customer's requests for special features and implements them very quickly.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Kinda of costlier when compared to rivals providing the same service
    • The setup of Distribution is kinda little complicated, need good exposure before setting up the service
    • Sometimes we can go with S3 Delivery service rather than Cloudfront if the website is providing static content and its way cheaper
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    Cloudinary
    • Their API does require URLs that can get quite lengthy and not always easy to parse on sight.
    • Documentation on how transformations work and what they actually do to your image could be clearer (what does force_strip actually mean?).
    • Although a free tier exists and is quite generous, should you need to acquire a premium plan for your needs the pricing at scale can climb quickly.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    Easy way to integrate a CDN within the AWS infrastructure. It allows further customization based on company needs.
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    Cloudinary
    Cloudinary is very easy to use and offers fast way to upload your images, files and videos to their servers. Then they give you quick ways t implement those files or images onto your website using their API or just a normal URL. They also give you very fast ways to make edits to those files and include them in the url.
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    CloudFront is a good CDN solution. It can be a bit complicated to implement depending on your needs, but AWS tech support is great. You get to avoid a ton of upfront costs by going with CloudFront. It works best in conjunction with other AWS services in your infrastructure. Once you set it up, you won't need to do much to maintain it. It just works.
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    Cloudinary
    We rarely use their support. But when we need it they are always there. They provide great consultation and suggestions to help us manage our costs and resources better. In the last 8 years perhaps we have contacted them 3 or 4 times - which is really really great
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    Amazon has always been creative and leading, and I have been using its services for years. They are very reassuring and have fast and responsive support--you can call them from any time zone to respond quickly. High security on servers, open hands on changes, and increasing and decreasing server resources and features.
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    Cloudinary
    Cloudinary seemed to be the most sophisticated with the most documentation and platform support. Other solutions seemed to be a lot harder to implement, however, due to the good documentation and API samples on their GitHub we were able to implement it nicely. Additionally, they have a lot of really well-known brands using them like Wired, Sky News, and eBay which gave us a lot of confidence that this was a good robust solution to use and to help others with
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • RoI for using CloudFront is immense. You can use it for all your certificate management and static asset management of your websites using CloudFront.
    • It is as good or better than any other CDN provider with multi-region support across the world using AWS regions.
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    Cloudinary
    • Images are essential to our product and using Cloudinary has allowed us to serve them up in a cost-effective and efficient way. Not having to worry about your images frees you up to tackle the real challenges for your product.
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