It's a bad comparison. If you're going to serve static assets, you're better off using CloudFront which has better delivery and lets you set proper cache heade

It's a bad comparison. If you're going to serve static assets, you're better off using CloudFront which has better delivery and lets you set proper cache headers so you won't have to use as much bandwidth. Aside from serving assets efficiently, being able to store them in a permanently cacheable scheme is a huge benefit. We used Cloudfront Asset Host to build this solution at PatientsLikeMe: http://github.com/wpeterson/cloudfront_asset_host http://github.com/wpeterson/cloudfront_asset_host