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Re:CloudFront vs. Cloudflare, and how to reduce response tim... by rafaelturk on Thursday October 20, 2022 @04:13PM (#33280083)
IMO Perfomance wise CloudFront and Cloudfront are quite similar.

I've migrated from CloudFront+AWS WAF to just CloudFlare given Cloudflare's superior (100x better) WAF/Firewall/DDOS protection at a lower cost

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Re:CloudFront vs. Cloudflare, and how to reduce response tim... by zoover2020 on Thursday October 20, 2022 @05:34PM (#33281105)
Out of curiosity, what makes Clousflare's WAF so much better?
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Re:CloudFront vs. Cloudflare, and how to reduce response tim... by jedifans on Thursday October 20, 2022 @05:44PM (#33281222)
The ability to scan the whole of a request body rather than just the first 8kB.
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Re:CloudFront vs. Cloudflare, and how to reduce response tim... by rafaelturk on Thursday October 20, 2022 @09:30PM (#33283154)
CF have more options, filters, settings, realtime reports, rules and statistics..

Additionally CF ofers a good set of system managed WAF rules that you can simply active and CF will manage it for you.

With AWS you're basically on your own. More or less is a bare bones WAF tool.

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Re:CloudFront vs. Cloudflare, and how to reduce response tim... by aynsof on Friday October 21, 2022 @05:26AM (#33286188)
This isn't accurate. AWS added Managed Rulesets several years ago: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/solutions/security/waf-ma...
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Re:CloudFront vs. Cloudflare, and how to reduce response tim... by mkasu on Friday October 21, 2022 @02:13AM (#33285063)
> IMO Perfomance wise CloudFront and Cloudfront are quite similar.

Yes I don't think the capitalization has too much impact.

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Re:CloudFront vs. Cloudflare, and how to reduce response tim... by tux2bsd on Friday October 21, 2022 @05:09AM (#33286100)
He made a typo.

> Yes I don't think the capitalization has too much impact.

You missed a comma.

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