🆚 Amazon CloudFront vs. Azure CDN

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Amazon CloudFront is much more popular than Azure CDN.
🌎 Amazon CloudFront is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
🌍 Azure CDN is more popular in Andorra.

Amazon CloudFront

Type

Content delivery network

Content delivery network

About

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.

Azure Content Delivery Network is a global solution for delivering high-bandwidth content by caching it at strategically placed physical nodes across the world.

Azure CDN Standard (classic) will be retired on September 30, 2027, and Microsoft advises migrating to Azure Front Door.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States

Redmond, Washington, United States

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/

azure.microsoft.com

Pricing

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

Free version ✔️First 30 days

Outbound data transfers (first 10TB)$0.081/GB

10–50 TB$0.075/GB

50–150 TB$0.056/GB

Categories

CDN › Rank #2

CDN › Rank #6

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Amazon CloudFront CDN is 11 times more popular than Azure 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, the United Kingdom, and Japan, while Azure CDN is more popular in Andorra.

United States

United Kingdom

Japan

Brazil

Germany

Australia

France

Canada

India

Netherlands

Awards

🥇 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.

⭐ 4th most popular in Denmark in the CDN category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Turkey in the CDN category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Norway in the CDN category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Ireland in the CDN category.
⭐ 5th most popular in the Netherlands in the CDN category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

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

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Internet Services

Education/Reference

Fashion/Beauty

Sports

Entertainment

Travel

General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#12

#16

#23

#32

#40

Name

Rank

#88

#333

#342

#474

nesine.com

#662

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Statistics were last calculated on March 30, 2026.
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