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AWS CloudFront costs Free to $1K per month as of November 2026, with 5 plans available including a free tier. Plans: Free (free), Pro at $15/month, Business at $200/month, and Premium at $1K/month. Custom pricing is available on request. Pricing depends on your chosen tier, contract length, and negotiated discounts.

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  • Free tier: Yes

AWS CloudFront offers 5 pricing tiers: Free, Pro, Business, Premium, Custom pricing. A free plan is available. Paid plans include Pro at $15/month, Business at $200/month, Premium at $1K/month. The Pro plan is small websites, blogs, and applications needing generous cdn allowance with built-in security.

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AWS CloudFront lists $0-$1000/month, but hidden costs like implementation and support add to the total as of November 2026. Key hidden costs: flat-rate plans are per distribution, not per account; multiple distributions multiply the monthly cost (e.g., 2 business distributions = $400/month), lambda@edge is not supported on flat-rate plans; distributions using lambda@edge must stay on pay-as-you-go pricing with separate compute charges, pay-as-you-go free tier (1 tb) expires after 12 months; flat-rate free plan is permanent but limited to 100 gb/month. Verified from 3 sources by CostBench.

Hidden Costs Breakdown

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Flat-rate plans are per distribution, not per account; multiple distributions multiply the monthly cost (e.g., 2 Business distributions = $400/month)

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Lambda@Edge is not supported on flat-rate plans; distributions using Lambda@Edge must stay on pay-as-you-go pricing with separate compute charges

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Pay-as-you-go free tier (1 TB) expires after 12 months; flat-rate Free plan is permanent but limited to 100 GB/month

4

HTTPS requests cost ~25% more than HTTP on pay-as-you-go, and most modern sites serve 100% HTTPS traffic

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Regional pricing varies significantly: on pay-as-you-go, per-GB rates in regions such as India are higher than in the US, impacting sites with global audiences

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Real-time log delivery is charged per million log lines on top of destination costs (Kinesis, S3), which can add noticeably to the bill for high-traffic sites

7

AWS Support plans are billed separately (Developer, Business, Enterprise), and a paid plan is generally needed for a production support SLA

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