Amazon CloudFront vs Hivelocity Comparison

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Why choose Amazon CloudFront

• Has a free plan (Hivelocity does not)
• Lower estimated cost for 10 users: Free vs $10/mo
• Higher Analytics score (7/10 vs 4/10)
• Higher Integration score (9/10 vs 6/10)
• Better fit for developers (9/10 vs 7/10)

Why choose Hivelocity

• Higher Cost score (7/10 vs 6/10)
• Includes Dedicated Servers, which Amazon CloudFront lacks

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Amazon 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.

Hivelocity

Pros

• DDoS mitigation for Layer 3 and 4 attacks is built into every bandwidth-enabled service at no extra cost.
• Every VPS and dedicated server includes at least 10TB of outbound transfer, and inbound and private traffic are free.
• Custom builds scale to four processors, 1TB of RAM and 100 drives, and GPU options are available.
• Provisioning can be automated through a REST API and a Terraform provider, and VLANs are self-service.
• Support is in-house, US-based and available 24/7, and phone reboots are free.

Cons

• VPS plans are billed monthly, with no hourly billing, and port 25 is blocked on VPS.
• No managed Kubernetes, serverless or managed database offering appeared on the pages reviewed.
• Some reviewers on G2 and Trustpilot complain of aggressive abuse handling, including instant terminations.
• Dedicated server fees are non-refundable and there is no standard money-back guarantee.
• According to VPSBenchmarks, reverse DNS changes require a support ticket and there is no built-in VPS firewall.