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If anyone has experiences (good or bad) about S3 vs CloudFront I'd really appreciate you sharing them.

• lyime 16y ago
  Cloudfront is the CDN on top of S3. S3 is not a CDN, just a storage solution. Check out my other comment.
  • michaelbuckbee 16y ago
    Thanks for sharing your setup regarding asset packaging for your rails app (very helpful). I understand the relationship between CloudFront and S3 and should have been more clear with what I was asking: what is the quantitative difference you've seen in using CloudFront for asset delivery (js+css) versus just using S3? Your pages loading 100ms faster, but at a cost of X dollars more per gigabyte? Certain regions not being able to hit S3? This sort of bleeds into the "when should I use a CDN?" question. There are lots of recommendations for people using Rackspace Cloud Servers, Slicehost, Linode etc. here on HN. With those hosting providers, I think most people would start off hosting on their local VPS and then at some point say: "I've got to get some of this on a CDN". What was the trigger for your app?
    • jeff18 16y ago
      CloudFront is actually cheaper than S3 for data transfer. You should almost always use it for static assets instead of raw S3.