NetDNA vs Amazon CloudFront

CloudFront is the AWS-native origin-pull CDN. NetDNA is independent of a single cloud and white-labels for hosts. Stay on CloudFront inside AWS; use NetDNA when you sell CDN to your own customers.

NetDNA advantages for this comparison

• Dedicated pull, push, VOD and live zones rather than a single proxy.
• EdgeCaching for Platforms and CDNManager if you resell CDN.
• EdgeSSL, EdgeRules, EdgeSecurity and EdgeReporting as named products.
• REST API with OAuth, PHP/Ruby/Python/Perl SDKs and CMS plugins.
• Published 2013 bandwidth table starting at $800/month.

When Amazon CloudFront is the better default

Stay on Amazon CloudFront if your team already operates that stack, your contract is locked, or you need a feature NetDNA did not ship in 2013 (for example Cloudflare Workers or CloudFront Functions). NetDNA is the better fit when you want a CDN, not a full edge compute platform.

Next: read the full comparison hub, EdgeCaching, or request a quote.

Cloud lock-in

CloudFront is the right default when origin, IAM and logs already live in AWS. NetDNA is independent of a single cloud. EdgeCaching for Platforms exists because hosts cannot give every tenant an AWS account.