Amazon CloudFront vs Shakti Cloud Comparison
Compare Amazon CloudFront vs Shakti 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.
Shakti Cloud
6.1/10
Shakti Cloud is Yotta Data Services' sovereign GPU cloud in India. It offers H100, L40S and B200 virtual machines, bare metal, clusters and serverless inference for AI teams.
Feature-by-Feature Comparison
| Feature | A Amazon CloudFront | |
|---|---|---|
| Scores | ||
| Overall Rating | 7.9/10 | 6.1/10 |
| Integration | 9/10 | 6/10 |
| Support | 6/10 | 5/10 |
| Cost | 6/10 | 5/10 |
| Customization | 9/10 | 7/10 |
| Security | 9/10 | 7/10 |
| Reliability | 9/10 | 7/10 |
| Ease of Use | 5/10 | 5/10 |
| Analytics | 7/10 | 4/10 |
| Scalability | 10/10 | 8/10 |
| Pricing | ||
| Free plan | Yes | No |
| Cheapest paid plan | $15/mo Pro (flat-rate) | ₹197,000/mo AI Lab (1x H100 80GB workstation) |
| Estimated cost for 10 users | Free Free (flat-rate) | ₹197,000/mo AI Lab (1x H100 80GB workstation) |
| Features | ||
| Dedicated Servers | ||
| API and CLI | ||
| Multiple Regions | ||
| Serverless Functions | ||
| Cloud Compute | Not listed | |
| Content Delivery Network | Not listed | |
| DDoS Protection | Not listed | |
| Free SSL Certificates | Not listed | |
| Managed Kubernetes | Not listed | |
| Managed WordPress | Not listed | |
| Shared Hosting | Not listed | |
| Uptime SLA | Not listed | |
Amazon CloudFront vs Shakti Cloud cost by team size
| Team size | Amazon CloudFront | Shakti Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| 1 user | FreeFree (flat-rate) | ₹197,000/moAI Lab (1x H100 80GB workstation) |
| 5 users | FreeFree (flat-rate) | ₹197,000/moAI Lab (1x H100 80GB workstation) |
| 10 users | FreeFree (flat-rate) | ₹197,000/moAI Lab (1x H100 80GB workstation) |
| 25 users | FreeFree (flat-rate) | ₹197,000/moAI Lab (1x H100 80GB workstation) |
| 50 users | FreeFree (flat-rate) | ₹197,000/moAI Lab (1x H100 80GB workstation) |
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 (Shakti Cloud does not)
- Higher Integration score (9/10 vs 6/10)
- Higher Analytics score (7/10 vs 4/10)
- Better fit for developers (9/10 vs 6/10)
Why choose Shakti Cloud
- Includes Dedicated Servers, which Amazon CloudFront lacks
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.
Shakti Cloud
Pros
- It publishes INR prices for VMs, bare metal and clusters, so Indian buyers avoid exchange-rate risk and can estimate costs without a sales call.
- Data centres in Navi Mumbai and Greater Noida keep data in India for DPDP Act compliance.
- It covers the full range from hourly single-GPU VMs to 256-plus-GPU H100 clusters over InfiniBand, as one of NVIDIA's Cloud Partners.
- Unlimited ingress and egress are included on VMs, and data transfer is included on bare metal and clusters.
- It bundles NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NIM, plus OpenAI-compatible serverless endpoints for hosted open models.
Cons
- The on-demand H100 VM, at 356 rupees per hour, costs more than Cyfuture AI (329) and JarvisLabs (about 330), according to a comparison article.
- It is limited to GPU and AI workloads. It has no general web hosting, managed databases, object storage pricing or CDN.
- InfiniBand and the Kubernetes control plane cost extra, and term discounts are not published.
- Independent user reviews are scarce, and sources disagree on whether access is self-serve or quote-based.
Not sold on either?
Frequently Asked Questions
Amazon CloudFront scores higher on our Hosting & Infrastructure criteria: 7.9/10 against 6.1/10 for Shakti Cloud. The largest gap is in Analytics: 7/10 for Amazon CloudFront and 4/10 for Shakti Cloud.
Amazon CloudFront has a free plan; Shakti Cloud does not list one.
Amazon CloudFront is the better fit for developers: we rate it 9/10 for them, against 6/10 for Shakti Cloud.
Shakti Cloud has Dedicated Servers, which Amazon CloudFront lacks.
