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Your traffic

Choose a workload. We’ll estimate traffic and requests for you.

Estimated monthly costs

USD per month, before tax. Load balancing and unpriced extras are excluded.

What’s included?

Estimates cover cacheable content. Origin and optional services are added only when you enter their rates. Plans differ in features and coverage; check their terms before buying.

Advanced settings
Split traffic between regions

Percentages must total 100%. The same split applies to bytes and requests. CloudFront charges by serving edge location; this is an approximation. Shared free allowances are allocated proportionally.

Origin and optional services

Paid tiers start with this workload; estimates do not include other account traffic. Enter your own effective rates after origin allowances. Reads use request misses; egress uses byte fill. Functions assume one invocation per viewer request. Zero leaves an extra out of the estimate; it does not mean your origin is free.

Compare a quote you received

This is your quote, not a published provider price. Use an effective rate for the selected traffic mix; tiers, included usage and commitments need to be reflected in your inputs. Sharing a scenario includes your quote details.

Presets are starting assumptions, not measured traffic. Video assumes one rendition and segment GETs; playlists, retries and extra audio tracks add requests. Fill is a byte ratio, not a request cache-hit rate. GB = 1 billion bytes; Google bills GiB = 1,073,741,824 bytes; CloudFront estimates use binary GB as a billing assumption.

Overview

CloudFront delivers web content and media using AWS edge infrastructure, with AWS or external origins. Choose between usage-based pricing and flat-rate distribution plans.

Delivery, security and edge features depend on the selected plan. A bundle can simplify billing, while pay-as-you-go keeps individual services separately configurable.

Network

  • 750+ PoPs in 100+ cities across 50+ countries, plus 15 regional edge caches. The PoP-city map excludes individual facilities.
  • 1,140+ embedded PoPs sit inside ISP networks across 300+ cities. These form a separate footprint and are not plotted as conventional PoPs.
  • Routing, price class, plan conditions and the request type affect the infrastructure used. Regional caches and Origin Shield have different roles; test performance from your audience networks.
CloudFront PoP cities

Published PoP cities at approximate city centers. Embedded ISP locations, country-only entries and individual facilities are not plotted. One marker can represent multiple PoPs.

CalgaryMontrealTorontoVancouverMexico CityAtlantaBostonChicagoDallasDenverHoustonLos AngelesMiamiMinneapolisNashvilleNewarkNew YorkPhiladelphiaPhoenixPittsburghSalt Lake CitySan FranciscoSeattleTampaWashington D. C.Buenos AiresFortalezaSao PauloRio de JaneiroSantiagoBogotaLimaViennaBrusselsSofiaZagrebPragueHelsinkiMarseilleParisBerlinDusseldorfFrankfurtHamburgMunichAthensBudapestDublinMilanRomeAmsterdamOsloWarsawLisbonBucharestBarcelonaMadridStockholmZurichLondonManchesterTel AvivJeddahRiyadhMuscatDohaIstanbulDubaiCairoNairobiLagosCape TownJohannesburgBrisbaneMelbournePerthSydneyChennaiKolkataMumbaiNew DelhiJakartaTokyoOsakaKuala LumpurAucklandManilaSingaporeSeoulTaipeiBangkokHanoiSaigonBengaluruHong KongCopenhagen
Cities

Calgary, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Mexico City, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Nashville, Newark, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa, Washington D. C., Buenos Aires, Fortaleza, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Bogota, Lima, Vienna, Brussels, Sofia, Zagreb, Prague, Helsinki, Marseille, Paris, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Athens, Budapest, Dublin, Milan, Rome, Amsterdam, Oslo, Warsaw, Lisbon, Bucharest, Barcelona, Madrid, Stockholm, Zurich, London, Manchester, Tel Aviv, Jeddah, Riyadh, Muscat, Doha, Istanbul, Dubai, Cairo, Nairobi, Lagos, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi, Jakarta, Tokyo, Osaka, Kuala Lumpur, Auckland, Manila, Singapore, Seoul, Taipei, Bangkok, Hanoi, Saigon, Bengaluru, Hong Kong, Copenhagen

Listed without a marker: Columbus (US), Kansas City (US), Portland (US).

Features

FeatureSupported
Web application firewall✓ Supported
Bot protection◐ Partial
DDoS protection✓ Supported
Rate limiting✓ Supported
HTTP/3 (QUIC)✓ Supported
TLS 1.3✓ Supported
Tiered caching✓ Supported
Origin shield✓ Supported
Instant cache purge◐ Partial
Serve stale while refreshing✓ Supported
Serve stale on origin errors✓ Supported
Image optimization◐ Partial
On-demand video✓ Supported
Live video✓ Supported
Digital rights management◐ Partial
HLS / DASH packaging◐ Partial
WebSockets✓ Supported
Signed URLs✓ Supported
Edge compute✓ Supported
Edge functions✓ Supported
Key-value storage✓ Supported
Configuration API✓ Supported
Real-time logs✓ Supported
Log export✓ Supported
Terraform provider✓ Supported

✓ Supported · Partial: limited or separate-product support · ✗ Not supported · Not listed: unconfirmed. Some features need a separate product or plan.

  • Caching and access: signed URLs/cookies, configurable TTLs, stale-while-revalidate and stale-if-error. Regional caches and optional Origin Shield reduce origin fetches.
  • Protocols: HTTP/3, TLS 1.3 and WebSockets. Match your distribution and security policy to the client workload.
  • Edge code: CloudFront Functions handles lightweight request logic; Lambda@Edge supports broader customization. KeyValueStore supplies lookup data to Functions on JavaScript runtime 2.0.
  • Security: WAF, managed rules, rate controls and DDoS protection integrate with delivery. Included bot and security features vary by plan.
  • Images and video: deploy Dynamic Image Transformation for image processing. MediaLive and MediaPackage handle encoding, packaging and DRM before CloudFront delivery; these are separate services.
  • Operations: invalidations normally take minutes. Real-time request logs go to Kinesis on a best-effort basis; CloudWatch metrics and optional browser RUM serve different purposes.

Pricing

  • Pay-as-you-go: destination-based delivery and request fees, with an always-free monthly allowance. It is not restricted to the first year.
  • Flat-rate: Free, Pro, Business and Premium distribution plans bundle services for a monthly price.
  • Bundles have usage allowances and feature restrictions. Sustained excess can change delivery performance; check eligibility and included features before choosing a plan.

Developer tools

  • Configure distributions through the API, AWS CLI, language SDKs, CloudFormation or the HashiCorp AWS Terraform provider.
  • Use CloudFront staging distributions and continuous deployment to test configuration changes before shifting traffic.
  • Send real-time request logs to Kinesis Data Streams. Standard logs, CloudWatch distribution metrics and edge-function logs have separate destinations and timing.
  • S3 transfer acceleration is an S3 upload feature; it is not a CDN migration tool. Choose and test origin failover separately.

When it fits

  • Websites, downloads and HTTP media with AWS or external origins.
  • AWS teams that want delivery, IAM-controlled configuration, security and edge logic in one ecosystem.
  • Workloads that can compare both PAYG regional meters and the eligibility/allowances of a flat-rate plan.

Before you choose

  • Workloads requiring features excluded from the selected flat-rate tier.
  • Sustained usage above a bundle’s allowance without a plan upgrade or agreed capacity.
  • Teams that need a CDN independent of AWS account and distribution configuration.
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