Comparison of the Amazon Cloudfront and NetDNA CDNs

In the tables below you can easily compare Amazon Cloudfront and NetDNA for POP locations, pricing and features & support. We hope this helps you better understand the similarities and differences between these Content Delivery Networks.

POP locations	Amazon Cloudfront	NetDNA
POPs in North-America	14	8
POPs in Europe	7	2
POPs in Asia (not China)	5	2
POPs in China	0	0
POPs in Australia	1	0
POPs in South-America	1	0
POPs in Middle-East	0	0
POPs in Africa	0	0

A POP is a Point Of Presence, an access point to the Internet. It is a physical, strategically placed location that houses multiple CDN servers.

Pricing	Amazon Cloudfront	NetDNA
Price US/EU traffic – low volume	$0.12 per GB	$0.06 per GB
Price US/EU traffic – high volume	$0.02 per GB, at 5000 TB per month	$0.01 per GB, at 5000 TB per month
Extra charge for APAC region traffic	58%	67%
Storage	Free	No extra charge.
Resellers		Turbobytes

Note: custom price plans are very common in the CDN market, especially for large volume customers. We recommend you always talk to the CDN provider about your needs and requirements and work with them to get a best-fit deal.

Features & Support	Amazon Cloudfront	NetDNA
Origin-Pull
Push (upload to CDN servers)
Purge
Purge All
Gzip	Only if origin server does Gzip	The CDN handles the gzipping
Persistent connections
Honors all origin server headers
Can override origin server headers
Set caching headers for pushed files
Custom CNAMEs
HTTPS
Control Panel & statistics
Access Logs
API
Support

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