Amazon CloudFront vs Beget Comparison

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Why choose Amazon CloudFront

• Higher Reliability score (9/10 vs 3/10)
• Higher Security score (9/10 vs 4/10)
• Better fit for enterprise (8/10 vs 3/10)
• Better fit for developers (9/10 vs 7/10)

Why choose Beget

• Higher Cost score (8/10 vs 6/10)
• Higher Ease of Use score (7/10 vs 5/10)
• Better fit for small business (8/10 vs 5/10)
• Includes Dedicated Servers, which Amazon CloudFront lacks
• Includes Shared Hosting, which Amazon CloudFront lacks

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Amazon CloudFront

Pros

• The network is very large, with more than 750 PoPs plus over 1,140 PoPs embedded inside ISP networks.
• Data transfer from AWS origins such as S3 and EC2 to CloudFront costs nothing, which lowers costs for workloads hosted on AWS.
• Flat-rate plans start at $15 a month with no overage charges, which makes bills predictable.
• It has strong compliance coverage, including PCI-DSS Level 1, HIPAA, SOC, ISO and FedRAMP Moderate.
• Two tiers of edge compute are available: CloudFront Functions at $0.10 per million invocations and Lambda@Edge for heavier code.

Cons

• G2 and Capterra reviewers report complex configuration and a steep learning curve for people new to AWS.
• Capterra-network reviewers rate customer support poorly, around 3.4 out of 5.
• Flat-rate plans lack some features, such as real-time logs, dedicated IP SSL and continuous deployment, and going over the allowance reduces performance.
• Dedicated IP SSL at $600 a month and Anycast Static IPs at $3,000 a month are expensive extras.
• Users on AWS re:Post and GitHub report cache invalidations that occasionally hang for hours or time out during deploys.

Beget

Pros

• Very low entry prices, including a free plan and shared plans from a few hundred rubles a month
• A broad cloud catalogue: VPS, managed MySQL and PostgreSQL, S3 storage, Kubernetes, CDN and an AI gateway
• A Terraform provider and public API let developers manage VPS and S3 storage as code
• A 30-day trial on shared hosting and free automatic backups on VPS
• Support around the clock by ticket, phone and Telegram, and a user review praised the support

Cons

• A cyberattack on 2 November 2026 caused a long multi-day outage, with only part of hosting restored by 5 November
• Regions are concentrated in Russia and nearby countries, which limits global latency and compliance options
• Prices are in rubles, and the main audience and documentation are Russian-language
• Automatic VPS backups run only every few days, not daily
• The load balancer, GPU VPS and bare metal products were still listed as in development