Amazon Cloudfront versus NetDNA

A comparison of two Content Delivery Networks.


Comparison of the Amazon Cloudfront and NetDNA CDNs

In the tables below you can easily compare Amazon Cloudfront and NetDNA for POP locations, pricing and features & support. We hope this helps you better understand the similarities and differences between these Content Delivery Networks.

POP locations Amazon Cloudfront NetDNA
POPs in North-America 14Help 8Help
POPs in Europe 7Help 2Help
POPs in Asia (not China) 5Help 2Help
POPs in China 0 0
POPs in Australia 1Help 0Help
POPs in South-America 1Help 0
POPs in Middle-East 0 0
POPs in Africa 0 0

A POP is a Point Of Presence, an access point to the Internet. It is a physical, strategically placed location that houses multiple CDN servers.

Pricing Amazon Cloudfront NetDNA
Price US/EU traffic – low volume $0.12 per GB $0.06 per GBHelp
Price US/EU traffic – high volume $0.02 per GB, at 5000 TB per month $0.01 per GB, at 5000 TB per monthHelp
Extra charge for APAC region traffic 58%Help 67%
Storage FreeHelp No extra charge.
Resellers Turbobytes

Note: custom price plans are very common in the CDN market, especially for large volume customers. We recommend you always talk to the CDN provider about your needs and requirements and work with them to get a best-fit deal.

Features & Support Amazon Cloudfront NetDNA
Origin-Pull YesHelp Yes
Push (upload to CDN servers) YesHelp Yes
Purge YesHelp Yes
Purge All No Yes
Gzip Only if origin server does Gzip The CDN handles the gzippingHelp
Persistent connections Yes Yes
Honors all origin server headers Yes Yes
Can override origin server headers No Yes
Set caching headers for pushed files Yes Yes
Custom CNAMEs YesHelp Yes
HTTPS Yes YesHelp
Control Panel & statistics No Yes
Access Logs YesHelp NoHelp
API Yes Yes
Support NoHelp YesHelp
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