🆚 Alibaba Cloud CDN vs. Amazon CloudFront

📈 Amazon CloudFront is much more popular than Alibaba Cloud CDN.
🌎 Amazon CloudFront is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Alibaba Cloud CDN is more popular in China and Indonesia.

Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Alibaba Cloud CDN

Amazon CloudFront

Type

Content delivery network

About

Alibaba Cloud CDN is a globally distributed content delivery network service provided by Alibaba Cloud.

It operates a worldwide network of more than 3,200 points of presence, with over 2,300 located in mainland China, uses intelligent scheduling to route requests to optimal edge nodes, supports advanced routing and protocol optimizations, and provides APIs for automation and integration.

Amazon CloudFront is a highly scalable content delivery network service operated by Amazon Web Services.

It uses over 700 points of presence and 13 regional edge caches, integrates with services like S3, EC2, and Lambda@Edge, offers built-in DDoS protection via AWS Shield, and provides detailed real-time metrics through CloudWatch.

Headquarters

Hangzhou, China

Seattle, Washington, United States

Website

alibabacloud.com #2,130

aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/

Pricing

Downstream traffic, 0–50 TB$0.07/GB

50–100TB$0.06/GB

100TB-1PB$0.03/GB

Free tier ✔️1 TB of data transfer out per month

Data transfer out (per month)Next 9TB$0.085+/GB
Next 40TB$0.080+/GB
Next 100TB$0.060+/GB
Next 350TB$0.040+/GB

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Amazon CloudFront CDN is 19 times more popular than Alibaba Cloud CDN.

Total websites

Market share

CDN

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Amazon CloudFront is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom, while Alibaba Cloud CDN is more popular in China and Indonesia.

United States

Japan

United Kingdom

Brazil

Germany

Australia

China

France

Canada

India

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in China in the CDN category.
🥈 Second most popular in Indonesia in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in Hong Kong in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in Cambodia in the CDN category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Singapore in the CDN category.

🥇 Most popular in Japan in the CDN category.
🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the CDN category.
🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the CDN category.
🥈 Second most popular in Brazil in the CDN category.
🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the CDN category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Amazon CloudFront is more popular than Alibaba Cloud CDN in all market segments.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Internet Services

Education/Reference

Sports

Entertainment

Travel

General News

Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#85

#223

#450

#610

#1,124

Name

Rank

#12

#32

#40

#44

#46