Cloudfront is terrible for DDOS protection though, given that there is a per request pricing (and no, AWS WAF doesn't help as it just imposes additional pricing

Cloudfront is terrible for DDOS protection though, given that there is a per request pricing (and no, AWS WAF doesn't help as it just imposes additional pricing on top, the only thing it does is to prevent Cloudfront from processing those requests.) However, if your statement is generally about CDNs such as Cloudflare or Bunny.net that don't have per request pricing, it makes sense.