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CloudFront is also a pretty inferior product in the CDN marketplace. Why do you think Amazon's retail business signed a huge contract with Fastly to be their primary CDN for all mission critical retail images? CloudFront sucks. Not competitive on price, features, performance or anything other than "we already pay AWS so might as well use it".

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One advantage of CloudFront is support for uploading large files (5GB+) to the origin server. CDNs tend to enforce a low size limit for uploads. It’s probably an uncommon use case, but the reduced client-side latency is nice for customers who are far away from the origin.

What is the best CDN offering right now in your opinion?

Cloudflare. Their performance, pricing, and Workers platform means you can build whatever you need.

If you want raw speed/features/reach, then Fastly or Akamai.

CloudFlare's CDN is competitive on features and price but it isn't a market leader in terms of raw speed.

Raw speed in what way?

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