Amazon CloudFront vs KeyCDN (2026): Pricing, Features & Verdict

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Why choose Amazon CloudFront

• Has a free plan (KeyCDN does not)
• Higher Security score (9/10 vs 5/10)
• Higher Integration score (9/10 vs 6/10)
• Better fit for enterprise (8/10 vs 4/10)

Why choose KeyCDN

• Higher Cost score (9/10 vs 6/10)
• Higher Ease of Use score (6/10 vs 5/10)
• Better fit for small business (7/10 vs 5/10)

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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.

KeyCDN

Pros

• Low per-GB rates: $0.04 per GB in North America and Europe, falling to $0.01 per GB above 100 TB, with no request fees.
• No contract and a low entry point: a $4 monthly minimum, and customers can terminate at any time.
• Instant purge, Origin Shield, HTTP/2, TLS 1.3, Brotli, Secure Token and free Let's Encrypt certificates are included at no extra cost.
• The vendor runs its own non-federated network rather than reselling another CDN.
• Ready-made integration guides for WordPress (CDN Enabler), Magento, Drupal, Joomla, PrestaShop, TYPO3 and Laravel.
• A documented REST API covers zones, purges and detailed reports, including cache hit and status-code statistics.

Cons

• The terms set a 99.99% availability target but give no service credits when it is missed.
• Standard support runs during business hours only, with 24x7 coverage limited to critical requests.
• Reviewers describe the DDoS protection as basic and say there is no WAF, so extra security layers are needed.
• Costs add up from extra Zones, Push storage, $1 per day log forwarding and image operations, and Asia, Africa and Latin America traffic costs two to four times more.
• Prepaid credits are nonrefundable, and reviewers note setup needs some technical knowledge.
• Push Zones lack a full-cache purge, and files over 100 MB require Push Zones.