Amazon CloudFront vs Google Cloud CDN: What are the differences?

Developers describe Amazon CloudFront as " Content delivery with low latency and high data transfer speeds ". Amazon CloudFront can be used to deliver your entire website, including dynamic, static, streaming, and interactive content using a global network of edge locations. Requests for your content are automatically routed to the nearest edge location, so content is delivered with the best possible performance. On the other hand, Google Cloud CDN is detailed as " Low-latency, low-cost content delivery using Google's global network ". Google Cloud CDN leverages Google's globally distributed edge caches to accelerate content delivery for websites and applications served out of Google Compute Engine. Cloud CDN lowers network latency, offloads origins, and reduces serving costs. Once you've set up HTTP(S) Load Balancing, simply enable Cloud CDN with a single checkbox.

Amazon CloudFront and Google Cloud CDN can be categorized as "Content Delivery Network" tools.

Some of the features offered by Amazon CloudFront are:

• Fast- Using a network of edge locations around the world, Amazon CloudFront caches copies of your static content close to viewers, lowering latency when they download your objects and giving you the high, sustained data transfer rates needed to deliver large popular objects to end users at scale.
• Simple- A single API call lets you get started distributing content from your Amazon S3 bucket or Amazon EC2 instance or other origin server through the Amazon CloudFront network.
• Designed for use with other Amazon Web Services Amazon CloudFront is designed for use with other Amazon Web Services, including Amazon S3, where you can durably store the definitive versions of your static files, and Amazon EC2, where you can run your application server for dynamically generated content.

On the other hand, Google Cloud CDN provides the following key features:

• Anycast
• Invalidation
• HTTP/2

According to the StackShare community, Amazon CloudFront has a broader approval, being mentioned in 3358 company stacks & 599 developers stacks; compared to Google Cloud CDN, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.