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Which CDN do you would recommend for a wordpress site: Cloudflare or Aws Cloudfront?

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Hi Community,

my question is already in the subject :- ). Or would you recommend both? When this is possible.

nice regards sebastian

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Hi,

To best evaluate AWS CloudFront, I would recommend you to read this page about its key features

One of the aspects, I like most is Lambda@Edge (search for it in the page above): it is a very useful feature when you need to process input request or output response at edge to customize, reinforce security, do custom processing, etc. based on requester location.

Have a look at https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/edge/

Also, security is very advanced: (from key features above)

Protection against network and application layer attacks
Amazon CloudFront, AWS Shield, AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF), and Amazon Route 53 work 
seamlessly together to create a flexible, layered security perimeter against multiple types of attacks 
including network and application layer DDoS attacks. All of these services co-reside at the AWS edge 
and provide a scalable, reliable, and high-performance security perimeter for applications and content.
 With CloudFront as the “front door” to an application and infrastructure, the primary attack surface is 
moved away from critical content, data, code and infrastructure. Learn more about AWS Best Practices
 for DDoS Resiliency.

Best,

Didier

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  • Thank you very much :). I just have tried to set up cloudfront. It is a bit complicated. I use cloudflare and when my business is biger I change to cloudfront. It is interesting to see all the different features. nice regards sebastian

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Hello.

The following blog compares CloudFront and CloudFlare.
CloudFront seems easier to set up for simple cache control.
https://www.missioncloud.com/blog/amazon-cloudfront-vs-cloudflare
https://www.freewebstack.com/cloudflare-vs-cloudfront-what-exactly-are-the-differences-between-them/

Also, this is just my personal opinion, but if your website is hosted using EC2, Lightsail, ALB, etc., you can use AWS standard IaC services to manage your infrastructure.
Therefore, if you want to complete everything within AWS, I think it is better to configure it with CloudFront.

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  • Thank you for the comment. I will compare this one :). nice regards sebastian

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