Amazon CloudFront vs NVIDIA DGX Cloud Comparison
Compare Amazon CloudFront vs NVIDIA DGX Cloud features, pricing, and more.
Last updated: November 2026
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.
NVIDIA DGX Cloud
6.5/10
A managed AI training and inference platform on NVIDIA GPU clusters hosted with major clouds and NVIDIA Cloud Partners. It is aimed at enterprises and AI developers.
Feature-by-Feature Comparison
| Feature | A Amazon CloudFront | |
|---|---|---|
| Scores | ||
| Overall Rating | 7.9/10 | 6.5/10 |
| Integration | 9/10 | 7/10 |
| Support | 6/10 | 8/10 |
| Cost | 6/10 | 3/10 |
| Customization | 9/10 | 6/10 |
| Security | 9/10 | 7/10 |
| Reliability | 9/10 | 7/10 |
| Ease of Use | 5/10 | 5/10 |
| Analytics | 7/10 | 5/10 |
| Scalability | 10/10 | 9/10 |
| 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 | ||
| API and CLI | ||
| Multiple Regions | ||
| Serverless Functions | ||
| Cloud Compute | Not listed | |
| Content Delivery Network | Not listed | |
| DDoS Protection | Not listed | |
| Dedicated Servers | Not listed | |
| Free SSL Certificates | Not listed | |
| Managed WordPress | Not listed | |
| Shared Hosting | Not listed | |
| Uptime SLA | Not listed | |
Amazon CloudFront vs NVIDIA DGX Cloud cost by team size
| Team size | Amazon CloudFront | NVIDIA DGX Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
Which One Should You Choose?
AWhy choose Amazon CloudFront
- Has a free plan (NVIDIA DGX Cloud does not)
- Higher Cost score (6/10 vs 3/10)
- Higher Customization score (9/10 vs 6/10)
- Better fit for developers (9/10 vs 7/10)
- Better fit for startups (7/10 vs 5/10)
Why choose NVIDIA DGX Cloud
- Higher Support score (8/10 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.
NVIDIA DGX Cloud
Pros
- Clusters are co-engineered with each major cloud (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, OCI) and come with NVIDIA's full software stack.
- Customers get access to NVIDIA experts, which is rare among GPU cloud providers.
- Lepton gives a single workflow across many GPU providers, with region choice for data sovereignty.
- Through build.nvidia.com, developers can use prebuilt NIM microservices and serverless endpoints without managing clusters.
Cons
- NVIDIA publishes no prices, and the core service requires a negotiated private offer.
- Review-site summaries repeatedly describe the pricing as expensive.
- Press reports say NVIDIA has scaled back DGX Cloud as a hyperscaler rival, so its direction is uncertain.
- Lepton access requires an application, and NVIDIA controls the allocation layer between you and the partner providers.
Not sold on either?
Frequently Asked Questions
Amazon CloudFront scores higher on our Hosting & Infrastructure criteria: 7.9/10 against 6.5/10 for NVIDIA DGX Cloud. The largest gap is in Cost: 6/10 for Amazon CloudFront and 3/10 for NVIDIA DGX Cloud.
Amazon CloudFront has a free plan; NVIDIA DGX Cloud does not list one.
Amazon CloudFront is the better fit for developers: we rate it 9/10 for them, against 7/10 for NVIDIA DGX Cloud.
