🆚 Amazon CloudFront vs. Azure Front Door

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

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

Amazon CloudFront

Azure Front Door

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 Front Door is is a cloud content delivery network service that offers Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities.

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 ❌

Standard$35/month

Premium$330/month

Outbound data transfers (first 10TB)$0.083/GB

10–50 TB$0.066/GB

50–150 TB$0.057/GB

Categories

CDN › Rank #2

CDN › Rank #12

Load Balancers › Rank #8

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Amazon CloudFront CDN is 21 times more popular than Azure Front Door.

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 Front Door is more popular in Vatican.

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.

🥉 Third most popular in Denmark in the Load Balancers category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Malta in the CDN category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Malta in the Load Balancers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Load Balancers category.
⭐ 6th most popular in the Netherlands in the Load Balancers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

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

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Internet Services

Education/Reference

Sports

Fashion/Beauty

Entertainment

Travel

General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#12

#16

#23

#32

#40

Name

Rank

#3

#7

#88

cloud.microsoft

#91

#333

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Statistics were last calculated on March 30, 2026.
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