🆚 Amazon CloudFront vs. Cloudflare

📈 Cloudflare is five times more popular than Amazon CloudFront.
🌎 Cloudflare is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 Amazon CloudFront is more popular in Japan.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Amazon CloudFront

Cloudflare

Type

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.

Cloudflare CDN is a global content delivery network designed for enterprise-grade speed and built-in DDoS protection.

It has 330+ points of presence in 120+ countries, supports more than 405 Tbps of network capacity for DDoS mitigation, and typically places edge nodes within 50 ms of 95% of internet-connected users.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/

cloudflare.com #20

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 ✔️

Pro$25/month

Business$250/month

EnterpriseCustom

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Cloudflare CDN is 5 times more popular than Amazon CloudFront.

Total websites

Market share

CDN

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Cloudflare is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Amazon CloudFront is more popular in Japan.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Brazil

Germany

France

Canada

India

Japan

Indonesia

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.

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the CDN category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the CDN category.
🥇 Most popular in Australia in the CDN category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the CDN category.
🥇 Most popular in Canada in the CDN category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Cloudflare is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Amazon CloudFront is more commonly used on sports and fashion and beauty sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Blogs/Wiki

Internet Services

Education/Reference

Entertainment

Travel

Health

Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#12

#23

#32

#40

#44