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Index › IT › Products › Amazon CloudFront · November 2026 Edition
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Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network from AWS · aws.amazon.com ↗

#4Best rank (enterprise)
14/14Models named it
1First choices
40Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inContent delivery networks #4 enterpriseLoad balancers #44Web application firewalls #33
What AI models recommend in CDN

Read the same way at every company size.

The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.

Small business
Asked for a small B2B company
#6 of 44 named for small business
Share of first picks0%

Cloudflare is first at 91%.

Mid-market
Asked for a mid-market B2B company
#3 of 60 named for mid-market
Share of first picks0%

Cloudflare is first at 93%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.

Enterprise
Asked for an enterprise B2B company
#4 of 59 named for enterprise
Share of first picks2%

Cloudflare is first at 69%.

Why models recommend it

“Choose CloudFront, Google Cloud CDN, or Azure Front Door when the application is primarily hosted on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
“If your B2B application is hosted entirely on one cloud provider ... sticking with that provider's native CDN is often the logical choice.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Direct question · alternative
“Choose AWS CloudFront / Google Cloud CDN / Azure Front Door if your infrastructure is already hosted in one of those cloud environments”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“AWS CloudFront: The default choice for most AWS users. Hard to beat if you are already deep in the AWS ecosystem”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Scale-constrained question · alternative

What gives them pause

“all 14 major CDNs they tested (including Cloudflare, Azure, Amazon, and Fastly) had security issues in their back-end CDN-to-origin connections”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“14 leading CDNs (including Cloudflare, Microsoft Azure, Amazon, and Fastly)... back-end TLS connections are vulnerable to security issues”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“their default bandwidth and egress pricing can be significantly higher compared to standalone CDN specialists”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Reliable, but tied to AWS; caution on costs, complexity, and if you're concerned about Amazon's data practices.”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as Amazon CloudFront, over the 194 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

ProductNamed togetherPicked instead
Cloudflare
183129View →
Fastly
1523View →
Akamai
12619View →
Bunny.net
998View →
Google Cloud CDN
560View →
KeyCDN
431View →
Azure Front Door
280View →
CDNetworks
240View →
Azure CDN
180View →
CDN77
180View →

What the models named instead of Amazon CloudFront →

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

At a glance

Stated on Amazon CloudFront's own site, not checked by Gane.

Also from Amazon
Amazon API Gateway, Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs, Amazon AppStream 2.0, Amazon Athena, Amazon Athena Federated Query, Amazon Aurora and 48 more
Visit aws.amazon.com ↗

How this is measured

Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.

Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.

Read the method →

Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named Amazon CloudFront came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 153 of the 194 answers that named Amazon CloudFront and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

fastly.com74
blog.blazingcdn.com63
cdnetworks.com61
cloudflare.com50
edgeone.ai42
ioriver.io32
linkedin.com25
aws.amazon.comIts own site24
github.com23
affmaven.com20

390 of the 414 domain citations in answers naming Amazon CloudFront came from a third party's page.

Pages cited

cdnetworks.com/blog/web-performance/best-cdn-providers56
edgeone.ai/blog/details/best-cdn-for-enterprise26
fastly.com/blog/cdns-with-the-best-uptime-and-performance26
fastly.com/blog/best-cdn-providers23
fastly.com/blog/fastest-cdn-providers-performance-speed-and-core-web-vitals23
affmaven.com/cdn-providers20
linkedin.com/pulse/choosing-best-cdn-top-content-delivery-networks-2026-rajesh-kumar-ua4ac17
broadbandnow.com/guides/CDN-Providers16

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on Amazon CloudFront across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500404
GPT-5.4 mini03003
Gemini 3.5 Flash05117
Perplexity Sonar04105
Grok 4.2004026
Mistral Small01001
DeepSeek V4 Flash03126
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash04116
Kimi K204116
GLM 4.7 FlashX03003
MiniMax M2.502114
GPT-6 Luna04105
Muse Glimmer 30B03025

What it publishes

Addresses on aws.amazon.com
280,316
subdomains included
Content
42,799
counted in the table below
Documentation
2,345
Product · Integration
3,213 · 49,021
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Blog27,117undatedAPI gateways, ETL
Glossary or explainer6,521undatedETL, MFA
Case study2,47602019-03-01WAF, Observability
Webinar or virtual event2,057162026-07-01Streaming, API gateways
Comparison1,52102025-09-01Object storage, ETL
Conference or event1,48202025-11-01Vector databases
Report or ebook1,090162026-09-01WAF, NoSQL
Podcast or video351undatedETL
Template or tool15002025-05-01
News or press34undated

Most recent

Events in person

The twelve months before September 28, 2026

As the event pages on aws.amazon.com state them, read September 28, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page aws.amazon.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name ETL (168); 63 name its categories the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 28, 2026.