Is switching to Amazon CloudFront with a 25% discount worth it for non-AWS-heavy projects?
I made the jump to CloudFront a while back, even though my project wasn’t deeply integrated with AWS. Honestly, the global CDN coverage made page loads noticeably faster for users outside my local region. With the Amazon CloudFront Discount, the cost became easier to justify, especially since I could scale without worrying about bandwidth spikes. It’s not the simplest setup, but the performance boost is real if you have traffic from multiple regions.
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Sometimes I notice that even if you don’t go full-on AWS, just having a reliable edge network can prevent latency issues and reduce bounce rates. For smaller teams, the trick is balancing cost with convenience—CloudFront gives a lot of features that can save headaches if your audience is global, even if you’re not using EC2 or S3 heavily.