26/04/2025
Why we migrated JamByte.io from AWS Amplify to Cloudflare 🚀
Amplify (backed by AWS CloudFront) and Cloudflare are content delivery networks (CDNs). When you build a website it has to run somewhere, in the past this would mean buying a computer that would be on 24/7 running the code responsible for your website.
Now in 2025, you can pay a Cloud provider to run this code for you. These costs are negligible for small websites and scale with growth.
Why we switched:
1. 🔒 Reduced Vendor Lock-in - Moving away from Amplify’s authentication system gives us more flexibility to adopt better solutions in the future
2. ⚡ Performance - Cloudflare is 3x faster than CloudFront (that Amplify uses under the hood)
3. 💰 Cost Efficiency - Cloudflare’s generous free tier means we pay £0 for the service
Bonus: Cloudflare has been really easy to setup and manage, this will reduce future time spent on deployments.
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