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We built a website for a film festival using a static site generator, deploying to AWS S3 + CloudFront Content Delivery Network. A few months later, the client asked about shutting it down to save money. Turns out it cost $0.05 for the month it was active, and $0.01 in the previous month.

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How much traffic did it handle for that $0.05?

Static, with S3 below and Clouflare on top? Tons...

CloudFront != Cloudflare

Hmm, yes. But then again, same difference "Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network".

For almost everybody it is == just not ===

It was a new AWS account for the client, which includes 50gb of CloudFront as part of the AWS Free Tier, so I guess it used that. I didn’t look into it a lot. As I joked with the client, it is cheaper to leave it running than pay us to turn it off.

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