Companies Using Amazon CloudFront

We detect Amazon CloudFront on 397,677 domains, including Amazon Literary Partnership, Accenture PLC, Siemens AG. A detection means the technology is present on that domain, which for large organisations is often a single storefront or subdomain rather than a company-wide deployment. Among domains we matched to a company with a resolved industry, the most common is Software Development (8.89%).

We detect 397,677 domains running Amazon CloudFront across our monthly crawl of live business domains. Company data could be matched for 194,030 of them (48.8%), and every company-size, industry and country breakdown on this page describes that matched subset rather than the full detected base. A further 33,743 domains carried a Amazon CloudFront detection previously and no longer do.

Amazon CloudFront holds 2.04% of the CDN category, ranking #9. This is a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category — not a share of all websites, and not a share of spending — so it is not directly comparable to figures published on other denominators.

Cloudflare is the main alternative and the only one taking meaningful share: our migration data shows 4,578 domains moving from CloudFront to Cloudflare against 2,619 returning. Fastly is level with CloudFront on migration and suits high-performance streaming and edge compute. Bunny and StackPath compete mainly on price. Google Cloud CDN's published domain count is not comparable, as most of it reflects Wix hosting rather than CDN customers.

The United States leads with 66,917 domains, 36.71% of the CloudFront footprint where we hold a country, followed by the United Kingdom on 18,197 (9.98%), Brazil on 11,197 (6.14%), India on 10,172 (5.58%) and Australia on 8,607 (4.72%). CloudFront is around ten points less US-concentrated than Amazon S3, which sits at 46.26%.

The most common company size is 1-10 employees, representing 52.41% of the Amazon CloudFront domains we could match to a company record and size — a subset of 194,030 matched companies, not of all 397,677 detected domains. This is followed by 11-50 employees (24.61%) and 51-200 employees (12.25%).

Among the Amazon CloudFront domains we could match to a company with a known founding date, the largest group was founded in the 2010s (38.45%), followed by the 2020s (24.78%). That matched subset is drawn from 194,030 companies and is not representative of all 397,677 detected domains. This suggests Amazon CloudFront is most popular among relatively young companies.

The ideal Amazon CloudFront customer is: Company Size: 1-10 employees, Location: US, UK, or Brazil, City: Mumbai, London, NYC, Founded: 2010-2019 — based on our analysis of 194,030 enriched companies at TechnologyChecker.io.

The biggest companies using Amazon CloudFront in our detections include Accenture, Siemens, Wells Fargo, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, PepsiCo, CVS Health, Samsung, AT&T, Allianz, Ericsson, HDFC Bank and the US Air Force. CloudFront is detected from each domain's own CNAME record and response headers, so these are configuration facts rather than inferences from an embedded third-party asset.

Amazon CloudFront offers a free tier with 1 TB of data transfer out per month, 10 million HTTP/HTTPS requests, and 2 million function invocations for the first 12 months. After that, pricing is pay-as-you-go based on data transfer, requests, and edge functions. AWS also introduced flat-rate plans: Pro at $15/month and Business at $200/month (AWS pricing).

As of May 2025, Amazon CloudFront operates from 1,600+ edge locations on every continent excluding Antarctica, according to Wikipedia (Wikipedia). AWS continues to expand this network annually, with additional regional edge caches that reduce origin load and improve cache hit ratios.

Yes, and it is the most common pairing we see. CloudFront integrates natively with Amazon S3 as an origin, and our crawl detects S3 on 43.61% of CloudFront domains and some AWS signal on 64.94% of them, measured across 194,030 enriched domains. The usual arrangement is objects stored in S3 and cached at CloudFront edge locations.

It depends on your needs. Amazon CloudFront wins on AWS ecosystem integration, global edge coverage, and pay-as-you-go flexibility for variable traffic. Cloudflare wins on pricing simplicity, real-time analytics, and unified security features. G2 reviewers rate CloudFront 4.4/5 stars, with the main criticism being pricing complexity. For AWS-centric teams, CloudFront is the natural choice. For multi-cloud or cost-sensitive teams, Cloudflare is often preferred.

Amazon CloudFront is used for accelerating content delivery via a global CDN. Common use cases include serving static website assets (images, CSS, JavaScript), streaming video and audio, accelerating API responses, securing applications with AWS WAF and Shield, and running edge logic through CloudFront Functions and Lambda@Edge.

Amazon CloudFront uses a pay-as-you-go model based on data transfer out, HTTP/HTTPS requests, and origin shield usage. Pricing varies by region. For example, data transfer out to the internet from US and European edge locations starts at $0.085 per GB for the first 10 TB per month. AWS also offers flat-rate plans: Pro at $15/month and Business at $200/month, which include WAF, DNS, and logs (AWS pricing).

Yes. Amazon CloudFront includes built-in DDoS protection through AWS Shield Standard at no extra cost. For advanced protection, AWS Shield Advanced provides 24/7 DDoS response team access, cost protection, and detailed attack diagnostics. CloudFront also integrates with AWS WAF for application-layer protection against SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and bot traffic.

Yes. CloudFront works with WordPress through plugins such as WP Offload Media, which copies media files to S3 and serves them via CloudFront, and many WordPress hosts running on AWS configure it by default. In practice most WordPress sites inherit whatever CDN their host bundles instead: Hostinger CDN alone appears on 486,918 domains in our CDN category, more than CloudFront's 397,677.

Amazon CloudFront is a full CDN with global edge caching, signed URLs, origin shields and Lambda@Edge. Serving straight from an S3 bucket is simpler static hosting with no edge caching, so requests travel to the bucket's region every time. The two are usually combined rather than chosen between: our crawl detects S3 on 43.61% of CloudFront domains, the standard pattern of S3 as origin behind a CloudFront distribution.