Amazon CloudFront vs OVHcloud Comparison

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Why choose Amazon CloudFront

• Has a free plan (OVHcloud does not)
• Lower estimated cost for 10 users: Free vs $5/mo
• Higher Reliability score (9/10 vs 6/10)
• Higher Scalability score (10/10 vs 7/10)
• Better fit for enterprise (8/10 vs 6/10)

Why choose OVHcloud

• Higher Cost score (9/10 vs 6/10)
• Better fit for small business (7/10 vs 5/10)
• Includes Dedicated Servers, which Amazon CloudFront lacks
• Includes Shared Hosting, 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.

OVHcloud

Pros

• Entry prices are very low, with VPS from about 4.54 USD a month and unlimited traffic.
• Public cloud prices include API calls and network traffic, and Savings Plans cut up to 30 percent.
• The range is broad, from shared hosting to bare metal, GPUs, Managed Kubernetes and managed databases.
• Infrastructure can be automated through the OVHcloud API, a CLI, Terraform and OpenStack.
• Anti-DDoS protection is included on VPS and hosting plans.

Cons

• Support is the most common complaint in G2 and Trustpilot reviews, with tickets going unanswered.
• Reviewers find the control panel confusing to navigate.
• Web hosting renewal prices are several times the introductory rate.
• The 2021 Strasbourg data center fire destroyed customer data and backups, which damaged trust in its reliability.