Amazon CloudFront vs Cloud4C (2026): Pricing, Features & Verdict
Amazon CloudFront is our pick, scoring 7.9/10 against 6.6/10 for Cloud4C on our Hosting & Infrastructure criteria. Its biggest advantage: higher Cost score (6/10 vs 3/10). Only Amazon CloudFront has a free plan.
Last updated: November 2026
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Amazon CloudFront
7.9/10
Amazon CloudFront is the AWS content delivery network. It caches and serves websites, APIs and media from more than 750 edge locations, and includes DDoS protection, WAF and edge compute.
Cloud4C
6.6/10
Cloud4C is a Capgemini-owned managed cloud provider. It runs private, sovereign, hybrid and public cloud estates, including SAP hosting and RISE with SAP, for large enterprises in regulated industries.
Feature-by-Feature Comparison
| Feature | A Amazon CloudFront | |
|---|---|---|
| Scores | ||
| Overall Rating | 7.9/10 | 6.6/10 |
| Integration | 9/10 | 7/10 |
| Support | 6/10 | 7/10 |
| Cost | 6/10 | 3/10 |
| Customization | 9/10 | 8/10 |
| Security | 9/10 | 8/10 |
| Reliability | 9/10 | 8/10 |
| Ease of Use | 5/10 | 5/10 |
| Analytics | 7/10 | 6/10 |
| Scalability | 10/10 | 7/10 |
| Pricing | ||
| Free plan | Yes | No |
| Cheapest paid plan | $15/mo Pro (flat-rate) | Contact for pricing |
| Estimated cost for 10 users | Free Free (flat-rate) | Contact for pricing |
| Features | ||
| Multiple Regions | ||
| Uptime SLA | ||
| API and CLI | Not listed | |
| Automatic Backups | Not listed | |
| Content Delivery Network | Not listed | |
| DDoS Protection | Not listed | |
| Dedicated Servers | Not listed | |
| Free SSL Certificates | Not listed | |
| Managed Databases | Not listed | |
| Managed Kubernetes | Not listed | |
| Managed WordPress | Not listed | |
| Serverless Functions | Not listed | |
| Shared Hosting | Not listed | |
Amazon CloudFront vs Cloud4C cost by team size
| Team size | Amazon CloudFront | Cloud4C |
|---|---|---|
| 1 user | FreeFree (flat-rate) | Contact for pricing |
| 5 users | FreeFree (flat-rate) | Contact for pricing |
| 10 users | FreeFree (flat-rate) | Contact for pricing |
| 25 users | FreeFree (flat-rate) | Contact for pricing |
| 50 users | FreeFree (flat-rate) | Contact for pricing |
The plan that fits each team size, billed monthly, before add-ons and usage charges. Each cost opens that tool's pricing calculator for the team size.
Who Amazon CloudFront and Cloud4C suit
Amazon CloudFront fits developers and startups better than Cloud4C.
| Audience | Amazon CloudFront | Cloud4C |
|---|---|---|
| Developers | 9/10It offers a full API, works with CloudFormation and the SDKs, and runs code at the edge, which suits engineers who want deep control. | 3/10It is a managed service operated by Cloud4C staff rather than a developer platform with self-service APIs. |
| Startups | 7/10The always-free tier and the $15 Pro flat-rate plan keep early costs low. | 2/10There is no self-service signup, free tier or public pricing. |
| Enterprise | 8/10It holds PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC and FedRAMP Moderate compliance, offers custom pricing, and runs on a very large edge network. | 9/10Cloud4C reports 2,500+ enterprise customers, including 50 Global Fortune 1000 companies, and is built around single-SLA managed operations. |
| Financial Services | Not rated | 8/10It holds PCI DSS and several ISO certifications, offers sovereign cloud and data residency in 25 countries, and sells compliance-as-a-service. |
| Government | Not rated | 7/10Sovereign cloud options and in-country data residency across many regions suit public-sector data rules. |
| IT Teams | Not rated | 7/10It takes over infrastructure, DR, security and SAP Basis work, with SHOP providing monitoring and auto-remediation. |
| Manufacturing | Not rated | 7/10Its SAP hosting and RISE with SAP focus suits manufacturers that run SAP ERP. |
| Mid-Market | Not rated | 6/10Fully managed operations can stand in for an in-house infrastructure team, but quote-only enterprise contracts may be heavy for smaller firms. |
| SaaS Companies | 8/10It integrates natively with AWS origins and supports blue/green continuous deployment, a good fit for SaaS products hosted on AWS. | Not rated |
| Small Business | 5/10Reviewers cite configuration complexity and costs as hurdles for smaller teams that are not technical. | Not rated |
Which One Should You Choose?
AWhy choose Amazon CloudFront
- Has a free plan (Cloud4C does not)
- Higher Cost score (6/10 vs 3/10)
- Higher Scalability score (10/10 vs 7/10)
- Better fit for developers (9/10 vs 3/10)
- Better fit for startups (7/10 vs 2/10)
Why choose Cloud4C
- Higher Support score (7/10 vs 6/10)
Pros & Cons
AAmazon CloudFront
Pros
- The network is very large, with more than 750 PoPs plus over 1,140 PoPs embedded inside ISP networks.
- Data transfer from AWS origins such as S3 and EC2 to CloudFront costs nothing, which lowers costs for workloads hosted on AWS.
- Flat-rate plans start at $15 a month with no overage charges, which makes bills predictable.
- It has strong compliance coverage, including PCI-DSS Level 1, HIPAA, SOC, ISO and FedRAMP Moderate.
- Two tiers of edge compute are available: CloudFront Functions at $0.10 per million invocations and Lambda@Edge for heavier code.
Cons
- G2 and Capterra reviewers report complex configuration and a steep learning curve for people new to AWS.
- Capterra-network reviewers rate customer support poorly, around 3.4 out of 5.
- Flat-rate plans lack some features, such as real-time logs, dedicated IP SSL and continuous deployment, and going over the allowance reduces performance.
- Dedicated IP SSL at $600 a month and Anycast Static IPs at $3,000 a month are expensive extras.
- Users on AWS re:Post and GitHub report cache invalidations that occasionally hang for hours or time out during deploys.
Cloud4C
Pros
- One provider is accountable for uptime from infrastructure up to application login. Most published SLAs are 99.9%, above SAP's own 99.5% standard production SLA.
- Data residency in 25 countries through 59 cloud PODs suits regulated buyers with sovereignty requirements.
- A broad managed stack under one contract covers private and public cloud, SAP Basis and database administration, DR, air-gapped backups and a managed SOC.
- Holds ISO 27001, 27017, 27018, 27701, 22301 and 20000-1 plus PCI DSS certifications.
- Its SHOP platform adds AIOps anomaly prediction, auto-remediation and no-code API connectors across AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle and its private cloud.
- Gartner Peer Insights reviewers rate it about 4.4 out of 5, praising migration and managed-services delivery.
Cons
- No public pricing or rate card. Every engagement needs a sales-led quote, and RFP.wiki rates its pricing as its weakest area.
- Little independent review evidence: G2, Clutch and PeerSpot show no reviews, and Gartner has only about 21 to 32.
- Reviewers mention process delays and documentation gaps during transitions.
- SLA figures differ across its own pages (99.9%, 99.95% and 99.994%), and credits and exclusions are set only in each contract.
- There is no self-service console, free tier or public API for provisioning, so it does not suit developers or small businesses.
- After Capgemini's acquisition in November 2025, buyers should confirm which entity they contract with and how support will be handled.
Not sold on either?
Frequently Asked Questions
Amazon CloudFront scores higher on our Hosting & Infrastructure criteria: 7.9/10 against 6.6/10 for Cloud4C. The largest gap is in Cost: 6/10 for Amazon CloudFront and 3/10 for Cloud4C.
Amazon CloudFront has a free plan; Cloud4C does not list one.
Amazon CloudFront is the better fit for developers: we rate it 9/10 for them, against 3/10 for Cloud4C.
