🆚 Amazon CloudFront vs. Fastly

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.

Fastly is a global content delivery network provider that delivers cached and dynamic web content via edge servers deployed around the world.

It operates a network of over 120 points of presence with more than 460 Tbps of connected global capacity, and offers built-in DDoS and web application firewall protection, origin shielding to reduce backend load, instant purging of cached content, and fine-grained API control over HTTP headers and caching rules.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

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 ✔️
Usage$50/month + usage price
Basic$1,500/month
Starter$6,000/month
UltimateOn request

Categories

CDN › Rank #2
CDN › Rank #3

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Amazon CloudFront CDN is 2.4 times more popular than Fastly.
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 Fastly is more popular in Malta, French Polynesia, and Mali.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Brazil
Germany
Australia
France
Canada
India
Netherlands

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Amazon CloudFront is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Fastly is more commonly used on technical, business forums, restaurants, and games sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Sports
Entertainment
Fashion/Beauty
Software/Hardware
General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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Rank
#12
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See also

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