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CloudFront is one of the worst CDNs out there, so this isn't really a good point. Any CDN can be stood up in front of a small fleet of dedicated hosts, and you
by pbarnes_1 9y ago
CloudFront is one of the worst CDNs out there, so this isn't really a good point.
Any CDN can be stood up in front of a small fleet of dedicated hosts, and you'd still be saving 80%.
- vacri 9y agoIt was just a simple example that AWS is more than compute cores and disk space.
- vidarh 9y agoIn fact, if you are using AWS you really ought to put a proper caching CDN in front, given the crazy high bandwidth prices at AWS. The bandwidth prices are high enough that I at one point mulled over setting up an "S3 compatible" storage service using S3 as the backend for durability, but storing a single local copy to most-of-the-time avoid hitting S3. S3 bandwidth prices are high enough that there are huge cost savings to be had if objects are retrieved reasonably regularly.