Fastly vs. AWS CloudFront: How Do the CDNs Stack Up?

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/fastly-vs-aws-cloudfront-how-do-the-cdns-stack-up/

by mcone • 3 years ago

19 6 3 years ago

manv13• 3 years ago

When it comes to cost, the article is wrong. What you do is get a quote from all the CDNs (akamai, fastly, cloudfront) and talk to your AM in the CDN you want about matching the other guy(s).

Our CF cost is .02/GB, no region delta, no request costs, for like a $2k commitment a month.

LunaSea2• 3 years ago

That's still one order of magnitude to high for video content.

manv13• 3 years ago

It depends on what you charge your customers. But with higher commitments come lower costs. We will be dropping our cost down to .007 per GB when we hit a higher tier, but we can't do that commitment quite yet.

rescbr• 3 years ago

It always boils down to where your customer is. If you're targeting a specific geo, it always pays to check what CDN provider has better peering/transit to the majority of the customers. There's also lots of regional players with way better connections compared to global CDN providers.

Price-wise, public prices are just for checking out the provider, one-off engagements or for using it as a secondary/backup-only CDN. Every CDN provider have private pricing and when there's a baseline usage it's always worthy reaching out. A small commitment can really drop the data transfer prices.

Fastly vs. AWS CloudFront: How Do the CDNs Stack Up?

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