Amazon CloudFront Premium flat-rate pricing plan now supports higher, configurable usage allowances

Running an internet-facing application means estimating and managing costs across many services and features: content delivery, web application firewall (WAF), DNS, logging, and DDoS protection. Each has its own pricing model, its own metering, its own line item on the bill. Traffic from successful launches, organic growth, and AI bots can spike without warning, increasing costs across all of them. In November 2025, we launched flat-rate pricing plans on Amazon CloudFront to solve this: one monthly price covering global content delivery, WAF, DDoS, DNS, logging, and edge compute, with no overage charges regardless of traffic spikes or attacks. CloudFront delivers your web application to users, whether your application runs on AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB), Amazon API Gateway, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), or other web servers. If you deliver internet-facing web applications, CloudFront flat-rate pricing plans are designed for you.

Today, we’re extending flat-rate plans so customers can scale their plan’s monthly usage allowance on the Premium tier up to 6 billion requests and 600 TB of data transfer per month.

Flat-rate pricing plans: One price, everything included

Flat-rate pricing plans combine the following essential features and services for application delivery and security into one simple monthly price:

• CloudFront CDN
• AWS WAF and DDoS protection
• Bot management and analytics
• Amazon Route 53 DNS
• Amazon CloudWatch logs ingestion
• Serverless edge compute
• Monthly Amazon S3 storage credits

Data transfer from AWS applications running on services such as Amazon S3, ALB, or API Gateway to CloudFront continues to be free. When you serve your AWS applications through CloudFront instead of directly to the internet, your flat-rate plan covers the data transfer costs between your applications and your viewers for a simple monthly price without the worry of overages.

Beyond pricing, plans simplify operations. You get one line item on your bill instead of tracking spend across CloudFront, WAF, Route 53, and CloudWatch separately. Security is included by default. The services are configured to work together out of the box. You know your price before the month starts instead of when your bill posts at the end of the month.

Each flat-rate pricing plan covers one CloudFront distribution with up to one apex (root) domain. Plans are available in Free ($0/month), Pro ($15/month), Business ($200/month), and Premium ($1,000/month) tiers. Each tier offers different features and is designed for different levels of traffic. You can upgrade any time, and no annual commitment is required. For a full overview of flat-rate pricing plans, see Introducing flat-rate pricing plans with no overages and Amazon CloudFront flat-rate pricing plans: new features and expanded capabilities.

Premium plans now scale to 6 billion requests and 600 TB per month

Starting today, Premium plan customers can scale their usage allowance by choosing from a range of higher usage levels, up to 6 billion requests and 600 TB of data transfer per month per distribution. You choose your usage level in the CloudFront console and see your new monthly, flat-rate price instantly, as shown in the following screenshot.

Every usage level includes the full set of features available on the Premium plan, including Origin Shield, automatic origin failover, advanced DDoS protection, bot management and analytics (and AI bots), VPC origins, mutual TLS, and more. You’re adjusting your usage allowance and price—the features and services covered by your plan stay the same.

As with other flat-rate plans, these are usage allowances, not hard limits. The same no-overage model applies at every usage level. Your first spike, up to three times your monthly allowance, is fully accommodated that month. Beyond that, excess usage is evaluated over multiple months. You will not incur overage charges. You can upgrade to a higher usage level at any time. For the full details on how usage allowances work, see Monthly usage allowances.

Why we’re extending Premium flat-rate pricing

Since launching flat-rate plans, we’ve heard a consistent message from customers: they love the model and want to take it further.

Customers already on Premium plans told us they need room to grow. They chose flat-rate pricing for its predictability and simplicity, and they want to keep those benefits as their applications scale. Previously, the Premium plan supported a single usage level, and customers who outgrew it needed to contact us to discuss custom pricing options. Today, the Premium plan offers a range of self-service monthly usage levels ranging from 500 million to 6 billion requests, and 50 TB to 600 TB, so customers can scale within the plan as their applications grow.

We also heard from enterprises and mid-sized businesses with baseline traffic levels that exceeded the Premium tier’s usage allowance of 500 million requests and 50 TB per month. They wanted the same flat-rate pricing, combined services and features, and operational simplicity, but their baseline usage made them ineligible for flat-rate plans. With today’s launch, these customers can now adopt the flat-rate Premium plan at a usage level that fits their applications.

Getting started

Whether you’re building new applications or already running on AWS, you can get started with flat-rate plans today. Visit the CloudFront console to subscribe a new or existing distribution to a plan. Premium plan customers can choose their usage level when they subscribe and adjust it at any time. You can mix flat-rate plans and pay-as-you-go pricing across different distributions, giving you the flexibility to choose the right pricing model for each application.

Refer to CloudFront plans and pricing or see CloudFront flat-rate pricing plans to learn more.

About the author

Cristian Graziano

Cristian Graziano is a Principal Product Manager with Amazon CloudFront based out of Seattle. He works across product, engineering, and UX to help first-time and experienced AWS customers of all sizes quickly onboard, configure, and manage Amazon CloudFront and related AWS services.