Amazon CloudFront VS Netlify

Amazon CloudFront Reviews

Netlify Reviews

1. Eleanor Bennett    

   Digital Marketing Specialist at Logit.io | almost 2 years ago
   Useful previews

   As someone who is often creating new pages, Netlify's preview makes the review process easier. You can also use the generated URL from Netlify's preview to run an SEO audit prior to going live. This is very useful for spotting bugs or broken redirects.

Amazon CloudFront mentions (67)

• How I - well, AWS WAF and CloudFront - saved the day for my client

  CloudFront is a managed Content-Delivery Network (CDN). That is to say, it makes it possible to serve cached content (or not) from locations close to clients. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

• A Ride Through Optimising Legacy Spring Boot Services For High Throughput

  Add cache and edge servers to avoid unnecessary service load when possible (e.g.: cloudfront). - Source: dev.to / 27 days ago

• Optimise your frontend APP in S3 by connecting with AWS Cloudfront [part 4]

  AWS CloudFront is a global content delivery network (CDN) that makes it easy to deliver websites, videos, apps, and APIs securely and at high speeds with low latency. You can use CloudFront to reduce latency by delivering data through 400+ globally dispersed Points of Presence (PoPs) and improve security with traffic encryption, access controls, and resiliency against DDoS attacks. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• How to improve page load speed and response times: A comprehensive guide

  When a user requests a webpage, the CDN delivers the content from the nearest server to the user. As a result, the loading times are faster since the data has to travel a shorter distance. CDNs offer endless benefits like reduced bandwidth usage, scalability, increased reliability, and more. Some well-known CDNs include Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, Akamai, and Fastly. They offer several features that help reduce... - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

  CloudFront - 1TB egress per month and 2M Function invocations per month. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

Netlify mentions (104)

• Replatforming from Gatsby to Zola!

  Wait as the Netlify CI/CD robots work their magic to build and push my updated blog site with the shiny new post to the open internet. - Source: dev.to / 18 days ago

• How to Use Google Drive to Host Your Website

  Forwarding: Forward or mask a domain to the Drive URL using services like netlify. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Building a (Virtual) Events Site

  The site is deployed to Netlify. There's really nothing special to share about that since Netlify makes the deployment super easy. A quirk of Hugo on Netlify means that I do need to specify the Hugo version as an environment variable but otherwise the deployment just works. One specific requirement of my site is to override the default Hugo build method to include the -F or --buildFuture flag because my events are... - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• My brother asked me to build a website for his new small business

  Cons are that it might be a bit heavy hitting for a simple website. You may find there to be a cost to host it, whereas using a static site generator will allow you to use the free tier on netlify.com. SSG's are easier to use and less work to do, including less security to worry about. Source: 7 months ago

• Introducing Sailhouse, the easiest way to send events ⛵️

  Sailhouse is being built by people with experience, and passion, for developer tooling. With experience at industry/category-defining developer-focused companies such as Netlify, we know how to build a strong offering. - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago