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In my opinion they're doing that on purpose to discourage people from using S3 as both a storage and a transfer method. Storage and Delivery should be consider
by tedivm 13y ago
In my opinion they're doing that on purpose to discourage people from using S3 as both a storage and a transfer method.
Storage and Delivery should be considered separate, as there are benefits to it being a separate service. If you throw a CDN between your customers and S3 you'll not only get a significantly lower cost, you'll also give your customers much better performance.
- Kudos 13y agoIn that case, where's the price drop on Cloudfront?
- tedivm 13y agoPersonally I would not use the Amazon CDN. It's not as cost effective as others, and CDN services are basically commodified at this point.
- Rifu 13y agoWould you happen to have recommendations for other CDN services?
- toomuchtodo 13y agoAkamai on the high end, Fastly for a startup or mid-sized business.
- thinkindie 13y agolooks like that fastly and cloudfront pricing is not that much different, they apply pretty much the same prices for traffic and requests in each of their zones. http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/ http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/ https://www.fastly.com/pricing https://www.fastly.com/pricing
- giovannibajo1 13y agoWe use cdn77 and are happy with the service. They're cheap and they properly route Google DNS users (lots of them), since they support edns-client-subnet.
- janson0 13y agoI just did some price comparison. It looks like cloudfront is actually the same price as data transfer out of S3, but in addition you have to tack on a $.02/GB fee to get the data to your cloudfront edge nodes. If I am wrong about this (and I hope I am), where can I find more information about that? Thanks!
- MichaelApproved 13y agoNo, you're right. I use cloud front and you have to pay for the day at to go from S3 to cloud front servers where it gets cached. Then the costs are $0.14/gb in the cheapest region. If your cache gets deleted or expired, you'll have to pay to move the data (at s3 rates) to the CDN again when someone requests it.
- res0nat0r 13y agoCloudfront actually becomes cheaper than S3 once you start scaling up to large amounts of data, plus you get the added speed benefit.
- rpedela 13y agoThe bandwidth cost from AWS to the internet is the same for EC2 and S3. They aren't discriminating as far as I can see.