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4 self-hosted Amazon CloudFront alternatives

A global content delivery network (CDN) that caches and serves static and dynamic web assets, APIs and streaming media from edge locations to reduce latency. Integrates with AWS origins, TLS, DDoS protection and edge compute capabilities.

Alternatives to Amazon CloudFront

BunkerWeb is an open-source WAF and NGINX-based reverse proxy to protect web apps and APIs with HTTPS automation, security policies, and extensible plugins.

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10.9k stars640 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

HAProxy is a fast, reliable reverse proxy and load balancer for TCP and HTTP applications, providing high availability, TLS termination, health checks, and traffic routing.

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6.8k stars964 forkslast commit Actively maintained

Varnish Cache is a high-performance HTTP reverse proxy cache for accelerating web applications and APIs with flexible caching rules and detailed request logging.

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4k stars394 forkslast commit Slowing down

Squid is a high-performance caching proxy that accelerates web delivery, reduces bandwidth usage, and provides extensive access controls for proxy and reverse-proxy setups.

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What replacing Amazon CloudFront actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 2 of 4 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: AGPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

Browse everything in Edge & Traffic (Reverse Proxy, Load Balancing, Web Servers).

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