🆚 Amazon CloudFront vs. Cloudinary

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

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

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.

Cloudinary is a cloud-based image and video API platform that provides tools for uploading, managing, transforming, optimizing, and delivering digital media assets.

It offers automatic image and video optimization, on-the-fly transformations through URL parameters, AI-based features such as background removal and object detection, adaptive bitrate streaming, a media library with asset versioning and access control, and global CDN delivery.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States

Santa Clara, California, United States

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/

cloudinary.com #1,359

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 ✔️

Plus$99/month

Advanced$249/month

Categories

CDN › Rank #2

CDN › Rank #11

Image Optimization › Rank #4

DAM › Rank #1

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Amazon CloudFront CDN is 21 times more popular than Cloudinary.

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 Cloudinary is more popular in Indonesia.

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.

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the DAM category.
🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Image Optimization category.
🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the DAM category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the DAM category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the DAM category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Amazon CloudFront is more popular than Cloudinary 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

#18

#162

#177

#326

#522

Compare alternatives

Technologies with similar characteristics.

See also

Cloudinary technology profile

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Statistics were last calculated on March 30, 2026.
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