We have an article on our blog about some of the differences. Typically you'll have to do quite a bit of work to get the same performance on S3+CloudFront as o

We have an article on our blog about some of the differences. Typically you'll have to do quite a bit of work to get the same performance on S3+CloudFront as out of the box with Netlify, and if you do set up things to be as fast there, you'll suffer from slower cache invalidation. https://www.netlify.com/blog/2015/03/06/comparing-netlify-and-s3 https://www.netlify.com/blog/2015/03/06/comparing-netlify-an...