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Amazon CloudFront. The Amazon CDN front end for S3 has launched. Traffic is 2 cents per GB more than S3. I’d like to see a price comparison with existing CDNs; I have a hunch it’s an order of magnitude less expensive.

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4 comments

  1. Depends which CDN you're comparing it to. Premium CDNs (e.g Akamai), yes - it's a *lot* cheaper, but the service is far inferior.

    When compared to cheaper CDN offerings (Cachefly, SimpleCDN) it's pretty similar.

    I think most of their customers will be people already using S3 and are underwhelmed by it's performance (like me).

    Jason - 18th November 2008 14:57 - #

  2. I agree with Jason, it has a lot to do with performance. If enterprises start to utilize cloud storage for their branch offices, it will be so that their end users can view a 10 page scanned document in 10 seconds, not 2 minutes, like they are seeing.

    Melissa
    http://ContentWorkSpace.com

    Melissa - 18th November 2008 16:29 - #

  3. At least one of the CDNs, Panther is already targeting Amazon. On using S3 as a "poor man's CDN" they say:

    "You wouldn't drive a nail with a screwdriver, so don't use a storage solution to deliver your content"

    They also claim this comes at lower rates than S3, even though their prices aren't public (often a sign of higher prices).

    Lode - 18th November 2008 20:07 - #

  4. Hi I posted a price comparison between CloudFront and an (unfortunately unnameable) CDN in my blog. Its in german but you should be able to get the gist of the table:
    http://www.managingtech.de/2008/12/16/amazon-cloud front-ist-kein-guenstiges-content-delivery-network -cdn/

    Jan - 16th December 2008 20:52 - #

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