AWS CloudFront vs Heroku

AWS CloudFront is used by more websites in our catalog: 23,983 use AWS CloudFront and 219 use Heroku.

AWS CloudFront sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (AWS CloudFront: 54, Heroku: 2).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, AWS CloudFront went from 3.5% to 2.7% of all tracked sites, while Heroku went from 0.03% to 0.02%. Heroku is gaining ground faster in our index.

1 websites in our catalog use both AWS CloudFront and Heroku.

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.