Amazon CloudFront
AWS's global CDN, sold pay-as-you-go per GB and per request or as flat-rate monthly plans.
- Headquarters
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Parent jurisdiction
- 🇺🇸 United States (parent: Amazon)
- EU self-serve plan
- No / not documented
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Provider type
- Edge platform. A CDN inside a larger platform: WAF and bot management, edge compute and enterprise support contracts.
- Billing
- payg
- Free tier
- Always free tier with 1 TB data transfer out and 10M HTTP(S) requests per month.
- Open source
- No
- Website
- aws.amazon.com
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-06
- Pricing evidence
- Published rates
Pricing
Calculated from the listed vendor rates; exclusions still apply. How to read these estimates.
| Bandwidth / GB | 10k requests |
|---|---|
| $0.085 | $0.01 |
Allowances, plan limits & calculation details
Rates are shown at their recorded precision. A zero means no charge in this calculation; the vendor may charge for things we leave out. See the notes for usage assumptions and currency conversions.
- Base fee / month
- $0
- Minimum bill / month
- $0
- Included bandwidth / month (GB)
- 1,024
- Bandwidth / GB
- $0.085
- 10k requests
- $0.01
Pay-as-you-go, US/Canada/Mexico and Europe: first 1 TB free, then $0.085/GB for the next 9 TB, $0.080 for the next 40 TB, $0.060 for the next 100 TB, down to $0.020 above 5 PB. HTTPS requests $0.0100 per 10k in the US and $0.0120 in Europe, after 10M free per month. Commits of about 10 TB/month get discounted private pricing. Flat-rate plans (aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/) bundle WAF, DNS and TLS with no overages: Free $0/mo, Pro $15/mo, Business $200/mo, Premium $1,000/mo. Origin fetches from AWS are free. CloudFront is not yet in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.
What companies report paying
What other customers have paid for Amazon CloudFront, with sources. Their usage, features and discounts may differ from yours; these are not quotes.
- $24,000/yr · Annualized from a $2k/month committed spend that bought a CloudFront bandwidth discount of more than 90% off list; 'super small' company; no TB stated
“we (who are super small) got a massive discount on cloudfront bandwidth by just committing to a $2k/month spend - a discount that was more than 90% off of list.”
Hacker News, May 2024
Managed alternatives
At 20,000 GB egress / month, 500M requests / month. Adjust usage and requirements.
Amazon CloudFront: $25,356/yr estimated.
- Cloudflare: $240/yr estimated · $25,116/yr bill differencePublished ratesPer-domain website proxy pricing; not a general-purpose unlimited media CDN. Check content terms and multiply by the domains that need Pro.
- BelugaCDN: $1,920/yr estimated · $23,436/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Bunny CDN: $2,400/yr estimated · $22,956/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Gcore CDN: $2,554/yr estimated · $22,802/yr bill differencePublished rates
- KeyCDN: $9,600/yr estimated · $15,756/yr bill differencePublished rates
No cheaper managed estimate matches your filters. Adjust your usage or compare with your actual contract bill.
The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you’d need to replace.
Self-hosted options
Operating cost is not estimated. These options are not counted as savings against managed services.
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