Along those lines I found that CDNs (I only tried Cloudfront) are actually slower then my dedicated hardware for regions reasonably close to my server. I antici

Along those lines I found that CDNs (I only tried Cloudfront) are actually slower then my dedicated hardware for regions reasonably close to my server. I anticipated this for cold edge locations but unfortunately it is also true for cached files. Thus unless you have a global audience and/or performance issues because of traffic spikes CDNs might not be worth the trouble. Also the download speed from Cloudfront was only halve of the speed from S3 but latency was much better. edit: specify CDN used