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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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