Amazon CloudFront pricing

Get CloudFront's global CDN, WAF, DDoS protection, DNS, TLS certificate, logging, and serverless edge compute in one plan for a monthly price. Plus receive monthly S3 Standard storage credits. Start delivering content without calculating costs across multiple AWS services. Security features are enabled by default, and additional configurations are simple to set up.

There are no additional overage charges or usage calculations, even during traffic spikes or attacks.

AWS infrastructure does the heavy lifting of absorbing and blocking attacks before they reach your infrastructure. Reserve your compute, database, and infrastructure only for legitimate traffic. Blocked DDoS attacks and requests blocked by AWS WAF never count against your usage allowance.

Data transfer between CloudFront and your AWS origins is automatically waived when serving traffic through CloudFront, giving you a monthly price for both CloudFront delivery and your AWS origin’s data transfer costs to CloudFront. When cached content is served from CloudFront edge locations or regional edge caches, duplicate requests are collapsed, and unwanted traffic is blocked, you'll see fewer requests hitting your origin servers, databases, and other AWS services that charge based on usage—reducing your costs.

CloudFront is a content distribution network that serves as a single point of entry for your application globally. Viewers anywhere in the world connect to one of CloudFront’s hundreds of edge locations nearest to them: CloudFront either responds directly from its cache or forwards the request to your application. Because traffic is spread across CloudFront’s edge locations, you can leverage CloudFront’s network architecture to deliver low latency applications that can withstand large bursts of traffic or sustained traffic as compared to web applications served from single locations. This makes CloudFront the ideal place to protect against DDoS and other application attacks.

Consider CloudFront for any publicly accessible web application where you need performance, security, and availability. Your web application can be hosted on AWS—like S3, AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB), or Amazon API Gateway, or on any publicly accessible URL. Your content can be static, dynamically generated and cacheable, or non-cacheable content — all three will benefit from improved performance, security, and availability.

CloudFront delivers fast experiences by shortening and eliminating costly round trips to establish connections in region, including for dynamic, uncacheable workloads like APIs. CloudFront terminates TLS close to viewers from distributed edge locations, maintains persistent connections to your origin, collapses requests to reduce load on origin servers and decrease response times, and carries traffic to your AWS application over AWS’ private global network rather than the public internet.

Additionally, if you have content that is cacheable such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or images, CloudFront stores a copy of that content and serves responses from global edge locations located near your viewers, eliminating the time it would take for that request to otherwise reach your application.

CloudFront flat-rate pricing plans combine the CloudFront CDN with multiple AWS services and features into a monthly price with no overage charges. Plans include CDN, WAF, DDoS protection, DNS, TLS certificate, logging, and serverless edge compute. Plus receive monthly S3 Standard storage credits.

You can select different plans for different applications based on your needs, giving you the flexibility to scale your applications without worrying about usage calculations or unexpected costs from traffic spikes or DDoS attacks.

Flat-rate plans and pay-as-you-go pricing offer different advantages based on your needs. With flat-rate plans, you pay one price that includes multiple AWS services like CloudFront, WAF, Route 53, S3, and CloudWatch Logs and never face overage charges, even during traffic spikes or attacks.

With pay-as-you-go pricing, you're billed separately for each service based on your actual usage. While this provides complete flexibility in service selection and configuration, your costs can vary month to month based on traffic patterns, and you'll need to monitor usage across multiple services to manage costs.

Flat-rate plans are ideal if you want combined monthly billing, simplified service configuration, and built-in security features without worrying about overage charges. Pay-as-you-go pricing is a better choice if you need complete control over individual service features, custom configurations, access to features not available in flat-rate plans, or if you expect to handle large, predictable traffic spikes.

Amazon CloudFront flat-rate pricing plans may not be combined with any other offers, promotions, or discounts.

Select a flat-rate plan when creating a new CloudFront distribution or switch an existing distribution from pay-as-you-go pricing. Choose a plan based on your application's needs, with options starting at $0/month. Plans can be configured through the CloudFront Console.