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Amazon CloudFront pricing and limits

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aws.amazon.com/cloudfront · CDN
SEPT 2026 audit

AWS's CDN, sold in flat-rate monthly plans bundling CloudFront with other AWS services rather than metered bandwidth alone.

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Entry paid planPro plan: $15/month.
RegionsGlobal edge network: PoPs in 100+ cities across 50+ countries, plus 15 regional edge caches (RECs) sited within AWS Regions.
Free tierYes

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 19 criteria comparedSources last checked

Amazon CloudFront pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
Pro plan: $15/month source ↗
Pricing model
Flat-rate monthly plans bundling CloudFront with multiple AWS services and features, with no overage charges within plan limits source ↗
Egress over allowance
No overage charges on the flat-rate plans; past the monthly allowance AWS may adjust delivery instead of billing - for example serving… source ↗

First line of each sourced value. The full text is in Amazon CloudFront pricing below. How this free offer stacks up: cloud free tiers compared.

01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

Teams already on AWS that want CDN bundled with other AWS services under one flat monthly price rather than itemized per-GB billing.

Consider something else if…

Traffic profile is unusual or very high volume — the flat-rate plans bundle a fixed allowance, and a metered pay-as-you-go CDN may price better outside that shape.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

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Amazon CloudFront pricing

5 criteria
Free tierYes
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Kind of free offerFree tier
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  • Amazon CloudFront Pricing ↗

    “Start with the $0/month Free plan and upgrade to access more capabilities and larger usage allowances. [...] Monthly price per distribution $0/month No overage charges [...] Requests 1M 10M 125M 500M”

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Entry paid planPro plan: $15/month.
Sources (1) →
Pricing modelFlat-rate monthly plans bundling CloudFront with multiple AWS services and features, with no overage charges within plan limits.
Sources (1) →
Egress over allowanceNo overage charges on the flat-rate plans; past the monthly allowance AWS may adjust delivery instead of billing - for example serving traffic from fewer or more distant edge locations. Data transfer allowance: 100 GB Free, 50 TB Pro/Business/Premium, Premium configurable up to 600 TB.
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Infrastructure

2 criteria
RegionsGlobal edge network: PoPs in 100+ cities across 50+ countries, plus 15 regional edge caches (RECs) sited within AWS Regions.
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Uptime SLA99.9% monthly uptime, one figure with no configuration split.
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CDN

2 criteria
Points of presenceHundreds of edge locations (exact count not published on the pricing page).
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Image optimizationDynamic Image Transformation for Amazon CloudFront (formerly Serverless Image Handler): an AWS Solution you deploy into your own account for real-time image processing through the CloudFront CDN.
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  • Dynamic Image Transformation for Amazon CloudFront ↗

    “Dynamic Image Transformation for Amazon CloudFront (formerly Serverless Image Handler) enables real-time image processing through the global content delivery network (CDN) of Amazon CloudFront. [...] This AWS Solution helps you automatically optimize visual content delivery”

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Compliance

10 criteria
SOC 2Listed as SOC-compliant on AWS's own compliance scope page. — Excludes content delivery through CloudFront Embedded Points of Presence.
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  • AWS Services in Scope — SOC ↗

    “This webpage provides a list of AWS Services in Scope of AWS assurance programs. [...] Amazon CloudFront [excludes content delivery through Amazon CloudFront Embedded Point of”

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ISO 27001Covered under AWS's account-wide ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification — not scoped per-service the way SOC, HIPAA and PCI DSS are on AWS's own site.
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HIPAAListed as a HIPAA-eligible service on AWS's own reference page. — Excludes content delivery through CloudFront Embedded Points of Presence.
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  • HIPAA Eligible Services Reference — AWS ↗

    “The services listed below are eligible to create, receive, process, maintain, or transmit electronic protected health information (ePHI). [...] Amazon CloudFront [excludes content delivery through Amazon CloudFront Embedded Point of”

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GDPR / data residencyAWS customers can process personal data on all AWS services in compliance with GDPR, and choose the storage type and geographic region for their data.
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  • GDPR — Amazon Web Services ↗

    “AWS customers can use all AWS services to process personal data [...] in compliance with the GDPR. [...] Customers have control of their customer data. With AWS, customers can: Determine where their customer data will be stored, including the type of storage and geographic region of that storage.”

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PCI DSSListed as PCI DSS-compliant on AWS's own compliance scope page. — Excludes content delivery through CloudFront Embedded Points of Presence.
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Encryption at restCloudFront Functions code and configuration is always stored in an encrypted format on the edge location PoPs and in CloudFront's other storage locations.
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Customer-managed keysField-level encryption uses an RSA public key you supply: CloudFront encrypts the named POST fields at the edge and only your private key can decrypt them.
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Role-based access controlIAM managed policies CloudFrontReadOnlyAccess and CloudFrontFullAccess attach to users, groups and roles, alongside custom identity-based policies.
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Private networking / VPCVPC origins: CloudFront serves ALBs, NLBs and EC2 instances in private subnets over a private connection, with no public access to the origin. Listed as "Private Origins Within VPC" from the Business flat-rate plan upward on the CloudFront pricing page.
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  • Restrict access with VPC origins - Amazon CloudFront ↗

    “You can use CloudFront to deliver content from applications that are hosted in your virtual private cloud (VPC) private subnets. [...] You can use Application Load Balancers (ALBs), Network Load Balancers (NLBs), and EC2 instances in private subnets as VPC origins. [...] User requests go from CloudFront to the VPC origins over a private, secure connection”

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Dedicated infrastructureDedicated IP custom SSL costs $600/month per certificate; Anycast Static IPs provide a dedicated set of static IP addresses for distributions.
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  • Amazon CloudFront pay-as-you-go pricing ↗

    “You pay $600 per month for each custom SSL certificate associated with one or more CloudFront distributions using the Dedicated IP version of custom SSL certificate support. [...] Amazon CloudFront Anycast Static IPs provide a dedicated set of static IP addresses for your CloudFront distributions.”

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Amazon CloudFront pricing questions

How much does Amazon CloudFront cost?

Pro plan: $15/month.

Amazon CloudFront Pricing · read

How does Amazon CloudFront charge?

Flat-rate monthly plans bundling CloudFront with multiple AWS services and features, with no overage charges within plan limits.

Amazon CloudFront Pricing · read

Does Amazon CloudFront have a free tier?

Yes.

Amazon CloudFront Pricing · read

How much does Amazon CloudFront charge for egress?

No overage charges on the flat-rate plans; past the monthly allowance AWS may adjust delivery instead of billing - for example serving traffic from fewer or more distant edge locations. Data transfer allowance: 100 GB Free, 50 TB Pro/Business/Premium, Premium configurable up to 600 TB.

CloudFront flat-rate pricing plans - Amazon CloudFront · read

What uptime does Amazon CloudFront guarantee?

99.9% monthly uptime, one figure with no configuration split.

Amazon CloudFront Service Level Agreement · read

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