Best Cloud CDN Alternatives (2026): 10+ options compared

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.

• Better at: Has a free plan (Cloud CDN does not)
• Better at: Higher Customization score (9/10 vs 7/10)
• Better at: Higher Integration score (9/10 vs 8/10)

Northflank

Northflank is a Kubernetes-based developer platform for deploying services, jobs, databases and GPU workloads on its managed cloud or on customers' own cloud accounts.

• Better at: Has a free plan (Cloud CDN does not)
• Better at: Higher Ease of Use score (8/10 vs 4/10)
• Gives up: Higher Integration score (8/10 vs 7/10)

AWS Amplify is a pay-as-you-go platform from Amazon Web Services for hosting web apps from Git and building full-stack backends on AWS.

• Better at: Has a free plan (Cloud CDN does not)
• Better at: Higher Cost score (7/10 vs 5/10)
• Better at: Higher Integration score (9/10 vs 8/10)

Cloudflare

Cloudflare is a global edge network. It offers CDN, DNS, DDoS protection and a WAF, plus serverless compute and storage (Workers, R2, D1) for developers and businesses.

• Better at: Has a free plan (Cloud CDN does not)
• Better at: Higher Cost score (9/10 vs 5/10)
• Gives up: Higher Support score (5/10 vs 4/10)

Cloudinary

Cloudinary is a cloud media platform that stores, transforms, optimizes and delivers images and video through a CDN for developers and marketing teams.

• Better at: Has a free plan (Cloud CDN does not)
• Better at: Higher Ease of Use score (7/10 vs 4/10)
• Gives up: Higher Cost score (5/10 vs 4/10)

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon's public cloud platform, with over 200 pay-as-you-go services for compute, storage, databases, networking and AI, used by startups through large enterprises and governments.

• Better at: Has a free plan (Cloud CDN does not)
• Better at: Higher Customization score (10/10 vs 7/10)
• Better at: Higher Integration score (10/10 vs 8/10)

Google Cloud

Google's public cloud platform providing pay-as-you-go virtual machines, Kubernetes, serverless, databases, storage, networking, data analytics and AI services for businesses of every size.

• Better at: Has a free plan (Cloud CDN does not)
• Better at: Higher Analytics score (9/10 vs 6/10)
• Better at: Higher Customization score (9/10 vs 7/10)

Amazon EC2 is AWS's on-demand virtual server service, offering resizable compute instances billed per second for businesses of any size.

• Better at: Has a free plan (Cloud CDN does not)
• Better at: Higher Customization score (10/10 vs 7/10)
• Gives up: Higher Cost score (5/10 vs 4/10)

Amazon Elastic Container Service is AWS's fully managed container orchestrator. Teams use it to run Docker workloads on EC2, serverless Fargate, or their own on-premises hardware.

• Better at: Higher Ease of Use score (7/10 vs 4/10)
• Better at: Higher Support score (6/10 vs 5/10)
• Gives up: Higher Customization score (7/10 vs 6/10)

Amazon S3 is AWS's pay-as-you-go object storage service. Businesses use it to store files, backups, data lakes and static website assets at almost any scale.

• Better at: Higher Integration score (10/10 vs 8/10)
• Better at: Higher Analytics score (8/10 vs 6/10)

AWS Lambda is Amazon's serverless compute service. It runs event-driven code without servers to manage and charges per request and per GB-second of compute.

• Better at: Has a free plan (Cloud CDN does not)
• Better at: Higher Cost score (7/10 vs 5/10)
• Better at: Higher Ease of Use score (6/10 vs 4/10)

Managed object storage from Google Cloud for unstructured data, offering several storage classes, multi-region replication and pay-per-use pricing for developers and enterprises.

• Better at: Has a free plan (Cloud CDN does not)
• Better at: Higher Ease of Use score (6/10 vs 4/10)
• Better at: Higher Analytics score (8/10 vs 6/10)

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service is AWS's managed Kubernetes service. It runs the cluster control plane for teams that deploy containers on EC2, Fargate, or their own hardware.

• Better at: Higher Customization score (9/10 vs 7/10)
• Better at: Higher Integration score (9/10 vs 8/10)
• Gives up: Higher Cost score (5/10 vs 4/10)

Google Cloud's fully managed serverless platform for running containers, functions, batch jobs, and GPU workloads, scaling automatically and billed by usage.

• Better at: Has a free plan (Cloud CDN does not)
• Better at: Higher Ease of Use score (7/10 vs 4/10)
• Better at: Higher Cost score (7/10 vs 5/10)

Baseten

Baseten is an AI inference platform that lets engineering teams serve, scale and train open-weight and custom models on managed multi-cloud GPUs, billed per minute.

• Better at: Higher Ease of Use score (6/10 vs 4/10)
• Better at: Higher Support score (6/10 vs 5/10)
• Gives up: Higher Integration score (8/10 vs 6/10)