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So why is it so expensive?

• anderiv 13y ago
  What is what so expensive?
• eli 13y ago
  Why is it so expensive to add SSL with a custom domain to Amazon CloudFront? Because Amazon actually needs to acquire hundreds of individual certificates on your behalf and distribute them to its edge servers.
  • Kudos 13y ago
    No they don't, you provide them with a single cert and they use that on every edge node.
• chris 13y ago
  SSL requires additional CPU resources, and is often coupled with hardware acceleration. All of this equates to higher hosting costs.