Comparison of the Amazon Cloudfront and Fastly CDNs

In the tables below you can easily compare Amazon Cloudfront and Fastly 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	Fastly
POPs in North-America	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	4
POPs in Europe	7European edge locations are in Amsterdam, Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Stockholm and Milan.	3
POPs in Asia (not China)	5Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Osaka and Seoul.	Not Available
POPs in China	0	Not Available
POPs in Australia	1Sydney	Not Available
POPs in South-America	1Sao Paulo.	Not Available
POPs in Middle-East	0	Not Available
POPs in Africa	0	Not Available

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	Fastly
Price US/EU traffic - low volume	$0.12 per GB	$0.12 per GB
Price US/EU traffic - high volume	$0.02 per GB, at 5000 TB per month	$0.02 per GB, at 5000 TB per month
Extra charge for APAC region traffic	58%$0.19 / GB for Hong Kong & Singapore and $0.201 / GB for Japan	733%Negotiable
Storage	FreeS3 storage charges may apply for S3 backed distributions.
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	Fastly
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	Cloudfront charges $0.005 per file purged. 1,000 purges are free per month.	Purging can only done by API.
Purge All		Purging can only done by API.
Gzip	Only if origin server does Gzip	Only if origin server does GzipFastly will soon be able to handle the gzipping on the edge servers, which means it can send compressed content even when the origin server does not.
Persistent connections
Honors all origin server headers
Can override origin server headers		Fastly supports surrogate-control, which allows users to send different cache directives to the Fastly edge servers than what is sent to the user.
Set caching headers for pushed files
Custom CNAMEs	There is a limit of 10 CNAMEs per distribution.
HTTPS		Fastly charges $500 setup plus $100/month for custom SSL domain.
Control Panel & statistics
Access Logs	Access logs can be optionally written to a S3 bucket.	Raw log files can be streamed via socket.io or rsyslog. Fastly can also periodically dump them to Amazon S3 buckets.
API
Support	By default aws only provides a forum for community support. Premium support is available at extra charges.

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