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> you pay the much cheaper CloudFront outbound bandwidth costs, instead of the S3 outbound bandwidth costs.

What? CloudFront bandwidth costs are, at best, the same as S3 outbound costs, and at worse much more expensive.

S3 outbound costs are 12 cents per GB worldwide. [1]

CloudFont outbound costs are 12-25 cents per GB, depending on the region. [2]

Not only that, but your cost-per-request on CloudFront way more than S3 ($0.004 per 10,000 requests on S3 vs $0.0075-$0.0160 per 10,000 requests on CloudFront)

[1] http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ [2] http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/




Doh, I feel stupid now. I only looked at bandwidth costs, not the request prices. That's what I get for editing my post late at night based on reading, instead of based on personal experience.

For low bandwidth, you're absolutely right, the costs are at best the same. For high bandwidth however (once you get above 10TB), CloudFront works out cheaper (by about $0.010/GB, depending on region). But that wasn't taking into account the request cost, which as you point out, is more expensive on CloudFront, which can negate the savings from above depending on your usage pattern.

I'll update my post accordingly, thanks for pointing this error out!


You do have to pay for S3 to CloudFront traffic, so really you're paying twice. (Although the S3 to CF traffic might be cheaper than S3 to Internet, according to the Origin Server section on the Cloudfront pricing page.) http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/

Also, S3 buckets cannot scale infinitely. They have to have their key names managed appropriately to do it. http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/03/amazon-s3-performance-tip...

Finally :) I like SSH. But I'm the founder of Userify! http://userify.com




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