🆚 Amazon CloudFront vs. Rackspace CDN

📈 Amazon CloudFront is much more popular than Rackspace CDN.
🌍 Amazon CloudFront is more popular in all countries.
⭐ Rackspace CDN is particularly popular in the United States.

Statistics based on 3.9M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Amazon CloudFront

Rackspace CDN

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.

Rackspace CDN is a content delivery network service powered by the Akamai network that accelerates website content and media delivery by caching assets on over 200 edge nodes.

It provides origin-pull acceleration for entire sites, pre-fetching for dynamic content, origin protection against DDoS, multiple origin support including non-Rackspace servers, and selective subdomain caching.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/

docs.rackspace.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 ❌

Custom

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Amazon CloudFront CDN is 156 times more popular than Rackspace CDN.

Total websites

Market share

CDN

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Amazon CloudFront is more popular than Rackspace CDN in all countries.

United States

Japan

United Kingdom

Brazil

Germany

Australia

Canada

France

India

Netherlands

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Japan in the CDN category.
🥇 Most popular in Korea 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.

🔥 18th most popular in the United States in the CDN category.
🔥 18th most popular in the United Kingdom in the CDN category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

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

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Internet Services

Sports

Education/Reference

Fashion/Beauty

Entertainment

Travel

Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#19

#65

#67

#70

#72

Name

Rank

#185

#307

#449

#854

#1,376