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AWS CloudFront costs Free to $1K per month as of July 2026, with 5 plans available including a free tier. Plans: Free (Flat-Rate) (free), Pro (Flat-Rate) at $15/month, Business (Flat-Rate) at $200/month, and Premium (Flat-Rate) at $1000/month. Enterprise pricing is available on request. Pricing depends on your chosen tier, contract length, and negotiated discounts.

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AWS CloudFront offers 5 pricing tiers: Free (Flat-Rate), Pro (Flat-Rate), Business (Flat-Rate), Premium (Flat-Rate), Custom Pricing. A free plan is available. Paid plans include Pro (Flat-Rate) at $15/month, Business (Flat-Rate) at $200/month, Premium (Flat-Rate) at $1000/month. The Pro (Flat-Rate) 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 July 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

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

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Dedicated IP custom SSL costs $600/month per certificate, required for older clients that don't support SNI

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Regional pricing varies significantly: India at $0.170/GB is 2x the US rate of $0.085/GB on pay-as-you-go, impacting sites with global audiences

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Real-time log delivery charges $0.01 per million log lines on top of destination costs (Kinesis, S3), adding $10-$100/month for high-traffic sites

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AWS Support plans are separate: Developer ($29/month), Business ($100/month minimum), Enterprise ($15,000/month minimum) required for production SLA

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