The good parts of AWS: a visual summary

Re:The good parts of AWS: a visual summary by ckcheng on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @06:15PM (#22611141)

Do you know what the cost difference is between CloudFront and S3 in terms of serving big files like video files?

For convenience and other reasons, I use S3 to publish some videos for a small group (~30) I teach. Wondering if serving that thru CloudFront would be cheaper.

This is especially important to me now as I'm doing this while everyone here is under voluntary self-isolation so I'm relying on video more.

Not that S3 was ever that expensive for me but if CloudFront is cheaper...

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Re:The good parts of AWS: a visual summary by nostrebored on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @06:25PM (#22611235)

CloudFront will likely help you save costs if there is a benefit to caching the content. For example, if all of those 30 download the same file, from a similar geographic area around the same time, you should see some cost reduction.

Otherwise, it might not be worth the cost of the distribution!

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Re:The good parts of AWS: a visual summary by ckcheng on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @07:49PM (#22611960)

Thanks. Yeah, same files and geographic area.

I'm paying for either S3 or CloudFront for distribution regardless, and either way their transfer out to internet pricing looks similar:

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

Transferring from S3 to CloudFront looks free, so I might give it a try. Already have S3, just have to set up CLoudFront.

I hope I didn't miss something on pricing... really can't afford bill shock!

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Re:The good parts of AWS: a visual summary by lappet on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @06:21PM (#22611196)

Sorry, I don't know the answer to that specific question. I do want to point out that CloudFront is just a CDN, you would use it in conjunction with something like S3.

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Re:The good parts of AWS: a visual summary by ckcheng on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @07:50PM (#22611973)

Thanks. Yeah, I have S3. Just wondering if CF would save costs in this simple scenario.

S3 transfer to CF is free I think so might be worth my giving it a try.

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