Amazon CloudFront vs CDN

Head-to-head comparison · Networking

At a glance

Only Amazon CloudFront offers a free tier.

Amazon CloudFront is AWS’s global content delivery network. It accelerates content delivery by caching data closer to users. The service handles requests efficiently across a worldwide edge network. You pay based on usag…

CATEGORY Networking

PRICING Pay-as-you-go

FREE TIER Available

TIER free

Free trial available

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Alibaba Cloud’s CDN service accelerates file distribution to end-users by caching content closer to them. It falls under the Networking category and operates on a pay-as-you-go pricing model. This setup allows developers…

CATEGORY Networking

PRICING Pay-as-you-go

FREE TIER None

TIER pay-as-you-go

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Pricing Tiers

AMAZON CLOUDFRONT

Data Transfer $0.0850/GB

Free Tier Free/month

HTTPS Requests $1.00/1M requests

On-Demand $50.01/1M GB-seconds

On-Demand $0.6000/1M requests

On-Demand $0.7500/1M requests

CDN

On-Demand $0.0640/hour

On-Demand $0.1050/hour

On-Demand $0.0700/hour