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Amazon CloudFront

190Judge labels
5First choices
46Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
4Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
5% in CDN for mid-market buyers
Rank 4 of 49 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 22% of its 68 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Amazon CloudFront →
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business6 of 44
0%51 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market4 of 49
5%68 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise5 of 45
4%67 labels
accepted challenger
In cdn · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Amazon CloudFront for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Content delivery networksNetwork and edge5%4 of 4922%68accepted challenger▲+6Since September 2026: 0% → 6%, +6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Bot managementNetwork and edge0%28 of 830%1under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare Bot Management at 56%
Load balancersNetwork and edge0%80 of 94100%1under 10 labels · led by HAProxy at 29%
Web application firewallsNetwork and edge0%50 of 820%1under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare WAF at 69%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

Movement

Since September 2026, Amazon CloudFront held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · CDN · by segment

Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 7 → 6 of 43
Mid-market▲+6Since September 2026: 0% → 6%, +6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
6%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 5 pointsRank 5 → 4 of 44
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 5% → 5%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
5%from 5% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 4 → 5 of 43

All categories · Mid-market

CategorySeptember 2026NowChangeReadingRank
CDN0%6%▲+6Since September 2026: 0% → 6%, +6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Within noiseRank 5 → 4 of 49
Bot management0%0%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.New this editionRank 28 of 83, unchanged
WAF0%0%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.New this editionRank 50 of 82, unchanged

Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.

The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions

By model

How each model treated Amazon CloudFront across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.512216
GPT-5.4 mini04004
Gemini 3.5 Flash04127
Perplexity Sonar03003
Grok 4.2003126
Mistral Small11215
DeepSeek V4 Flash03126
Llama 4 Maverick00112
Qwen 3.7 Flash04004
Kimi K203126
GLM 4.7 FlashX14016
MiniMax M2.503115
GPT-6 Luna04105
Muse Glimmer 30B03036

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct28 labels1
Paraphrase30 labels2
Comparative40 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained33 labels1
Scale-constrained25 labels1
Negative34 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative190 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 7 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“1. Amazon CloudFront - Best for companies already using AWS... If you're on AWS, go with CloudFront.” Mistral Small · CDN · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“For mid-market B2B specifically, CDN77 and CloudFront emerge as particularly well-suited options” Claude Haiku 4.5 · CDN · direct prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend evaluating Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, and CloudFront first” GLM 4.7 FlashX · CDN · scale prompt · first choice
“Excellent if you are already deeply embedded in AWS/Azure ... However, they generally lack the advanced edge compute, rapid purging, and dedicated security features” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CDN · scale prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“CloudFront is not suitable for non-HTTP/HTTPS protocols; it's designed for content delivery only.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Load balancers · negative prompt · hard negative
“It's best to avoid unless you have strict cost controls and predictable traffic patterns.” Mistral Small · CDN · negative prompt · hard negative
“At 500 TB a month, Amazon CloudFront's North America list pricing works out to roughly $24,600 before request fees... The same bytes on a volume-tier CDN cost between $1,500 and $2,500.” Muse Glimmer 30B · CDN · scale prompt · soft negative
“Lambda@Edge is generally slower and more expensive to execute than Cloudflare Workers or Fastly's Compute@Edge, and AWS data transfer pricing can become complex and costly at scale” Claude Haiku 4.5 · CDN · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Amazon CloudFront, over the 190 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Amazon CloudFront was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Cloudflare174 of 190110Compare →
Fastly147 of 1905Compare →
Akamai123 of 19024Compare →
Bunny.net93 of 1907Compare →
Google Cloud CDN52 of 1900Not among the top eight
KeyCDN47 of 1901Compare →
Azure Front Door30 of 1900Not among the top eight
Azure CDN26 of 1900Not among the top eight
CDN7714 of 1900Not among the top eight
BlazingCDN13 of 1904Not among the top eight
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Amazon CloudFront. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 162 of the 190 answers that named Amazon CloudFront and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

blog.blazingcdn.com114
fastly.com75
cdnetworks.com46
broadbandnow.com42
edgenext.com41
linkedin.com40
cloudflare.com33
affmaven.com30
g2.com27
myrasecurity.com27

475 of the 475 domain citations in answers naming Amazon CloudFront came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

blog.blazingcdn.com/en-us/top-cdn-providers-2025-an-expert-guide-to-types-technologies-and53
broadbandnow.com/guides/CDN-Providers42
cdnetworks.com/blog/web-performance/best-cdn-providers41
blog.blazingcdn.com/en-us/top-cdn-providers-2025-an-expert-guide-to-types-technologies-and39
edgenext.com/resources/blog/best-cdn-providers-2026-top-global-content-delivery-networks-c36
linkedin.com/pulse/choosing-best-cdn-top-content-delivery-networks-2026-rajesh-kumar-ua4ac33
affmaven.com/cdn-providers30
fastly.com/blog/best-cdn-providers27

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

aws.amazon.com ranks 3 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Amazon CloudFront takes 5% of first choices and Cloudflare takes 68%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “cdn”
3
Position for “cdns”
5
Searches for its name, Google
5,400 a month (“amazon cloudfront”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
73 a month
Organic visits to its site
about 9,238,321 a month
Searches its site ranks for
150,884 · 37,235 in the top three
Sites linking to it
282,981
Paid Google search
22 searches its ads show for, about 942 clicks and $20,476 a month (estimate)
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
5%
rank 4 of 49 in CDN
Segment leader
68%
Cloudflare
First choices
5 across its categories
Named in
190 answers
Its own site cited
in 162 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on aws.amazon.com
280,316
subdomains included
Content
42,799
counted in the table below
Documentation
2,345
Product · Integration
3,213 · 49,021
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Blog27,117undatedAPI gateways, ETL
Glossary or explainer6,521undatedETL, MFA
Case study2,47602019-03-01WAF, Observability
Webinar or virtual event2,057162026-07-01Streaming, API gateways
Comparison1,52102025-09-01Object storage, ETL
Conference or event1,48202025-11-01Vector databases
Report or ebook1,090162026-09-01WAF, NoSQL
Podcast or video351undatedETL
Template or tool15002025-05-01
News or press34undated

Most recent

Events in person

Last twelve months

As the event pages on aws.amazon.com state them, read September 28, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page aws.amazon.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name ETL (168); 63 name its categories the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 28, 2026.

Names read as Amazon CloudFront

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Amazon CloudFront; a claim can dispute any of them.
AWS CloudFront 28CloudFront 9AWS WAF / CloudFront 1CloudFront (AWS) 1

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  • where Amazon CloudFront is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
  • the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
  • who was chosen in the answers that did not name Amazon CloudFront, and every reason the record gives;
  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
  • one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
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