Most school and office networks use "blacklist" filters that block specific domain names like roblox.com or fortnite.com . However, blocking cloudfront.net is much harder for IT administrators for several reasons:
Sometimes your school goes nuclear and blocks the entire cloudfront.net domain (rare, but it happens). Here are backups: cloudfront.net unblocked games
: These sites can handle thousands of concurrent players during peak school or work hours without crashing. Popular Games Hosted via CloudFront Most school and office networks use "blacklist" filters
Because CloudFront is a legitimate AWS service used by millions of businesses to serve legitimate content, it is much less likely to be blacklisted by filters. The result is that games hosted at a something.cloudfront.net address often slip right through, while "Miniclip.com" remains blocked. while "Miniclip.com" remains blocked.