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Amazon S3 Cookbook (n)

By : Naoya Hashimoto
Book Image

Amazon S3 Cookbook (n)

By: Naoya Hashimoto

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Amazon S3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

How to compare costs for data transfer between S3 and CloudFront


In Chapter 3, Calculating Cost with AWS Simple Monthly Calculator, you learned about the S3 pricing model and how to calculate S3 cost including Storage, Request, and Data Transfer pricing and CloudFront with the AWS calculator. This section looks into the details of the CloudFront pricing model by comparing costs for data transferring.

Getting ready

The CloudFront pricing model is composed of Regional Data Transfer Out to Internet, Regional Data Transfer Out to Origin, and Request Pricing for All HTTP methods. Let's see the details of each model one by one.

Tip

See the latest pricing table at http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/.

Regional data transfer out to the Internet (per GB)

The data volume transferred out of the Amazon CloudFront edge locations to the Internet is separately measured for each geographic region in GB. There is a volume discount shown in the table above as the data transferred increases.

Let's assume that...