Comparison of the Bitgravity and Amazon Cloudfront CDNs

In the tables below you can easily compare Bitgravity and Amazon Cloudfront 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	Bitgravity	Amazon Cloudfront
POPs in North-America	6Ashburn, Miami, Dallas, Chicago, San Jose, Los Angeles.	14US edge locations are in Ashburn, VA; Dallas/Fort Worth, TX; Jacksonville, FL; Los Angeles, CA (2); Miami, FL; New York, NY (2); Newark, NJ; Palo Alto, CA; San Jose, CA; Seattle, WA, South Bend, IN and St. Louis, MO
POPs in Europe	3London, Paris, Frankfurt.	7European edge locations are in Amsterdam, Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Stockholm and Milan.
POPs in Asia (not China)	8Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, India (Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai).	5Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Osaka and Seoul.
POPs in China	0	0
POPs in Australia	2Perth, Adelaide.	1Sydney
POPs in South-America	0	1Sao Paulo.
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	Bitgravity	Amazon Cloudfront
Price US/EU traffic - low volume	$0.15 per GB, at 2 TB per month1 million GET requests included.	$0.12 per GB
Price US/EU traffic - high volume	$0.07 per GB, at 15 TB per month5 million GET requests included.	$0.02 per GB, at 5000 TB per month
Extra charge for APAC region traffic	67%The Starter plan is $500 for 2 TB and includes 1 million GET requests.	58%$0.19 / GB for Hong Kong & Singapore and $0.201 / GB for Japan
Storage		FreeS3 storage charges may apply for S3 backed distributions.

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	Bitgravity	Amazon Cloudfront
Origin-Pull		Origin pull is called "Custom Origin" when creating a new Cloudfront distribution.
Push (upload to CDN servers)		To use push, set the Cloudfront distribution to use "Amazon S3 Origin" as the source.
Purge	Customers can purge files from the Bitgravity edge servers per file, per directory and do a purge of all files.	Cloudfront charges $0.005 per file purged. 1,000 purges are free per month.
Purge All
Gzip	Only if origin server does Gzip	Only if origin server does Gzip
Persistent connections
Honors all origin server headers
Can override origin server headers
Set caching headers for pushed files	Bitgravity supports the HTTP/1.1 RFC and can support any parameters for query strings. Futhermore, Bitgravity can configure based on most customer use cases, so at the customer, host, MIME type, or URL level.
Custom CNAMEs		There is a limit of 10 CNAMEs per distribution.
HTTPS	Bitgravity provides HTTPS delivery with their own shared certificates but they will be rolling out the capability of hosting third party certs by mid February 2013.
Control Panel & statistics	Access logs are available for an additional fee.
Access Logs	Access logs are available for an additional fee.	Access logs can be optionally written to a S3 bucket.
API	The API can be used to do Push and Purge.
Support	24/7/365 phone and email support included.	By default aws only provides a forum for community support. Premium support is available at extra charges.

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