AWS CloudFront Flat Rate Pricing

Tired of volatile CloudFront charges in your AWS bill?

Before this new CloudFront Flat Rate Pricing tier, you could spin up CloudFront to act as a CDN serving up your binary assets fast and efficiently, but you might have overlooked WAF(Web Application Firewall), an essential tool for fending off bot attacks.

Then you start seeing spikes in your CDN bill from DDoS attacks or even legitimate bot traffic.

At that point, you could spend months going down the deep rabbit hole of WAF or…

You could just let AWS handle all of that for you by electing for their flat rate pricing.

By taking several complex services and giving them a set of optimized presets, then packaging them into a single product, AWS takes a lot of the complexity out of getting started.

Take that a step further by removing risk from the customer’s plate and charging a premium for absorbing the volatility.

Should you use CloudFront Flat Rate Pricing? It depends.

If you have an internal team with the skills and time to set up and manage these products independently, then you might want to opt out of the flat pricing.

But if engineering hours are better spent building new features, or you lack the depth of skill required to finely tune these services, then the flat tier might just be for you.

If you need help making this decision lets set up a time to chat.