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CloudFront Pricing Calculator

Estimate Amazon CloudFront bandwidth pricing by region and volume tier, with the 1 TB free tier, and compare it with Cloud CDN, Front Door and Cloudflare.

Updated · By Niraj Kumar · 14 sources

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Traffic to users

GB / month

Everything your servers, storage and CDN send to users and other services on the internet.

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No CDNAll of it

Each provider's own CDN: CloudFront, Cloud CDN, Front Door, Cloudflare or Spaces CDN.

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Misses are fetched from your servers. Google bills that cache fill per GB; AWS and Azure do not.

Traffic inside the cloud

GB / month

Replication, backups and calls to services in a different region.

GB / month

Service-to-service calls, load balancing and database replicas in other zones of the same region.

NAT and servers

GB / month

Outbound calls, package and image pulls from private subnets.

Usually one per availability zone.

Sets pooled transfer allowances and Cloud NAT's per-VM fee.

Monthly data transfer on AWS$4,060$48,722 a year
CDN delivery
$4,060
Price rank
8th cheapest of 8
Cheapest cloud with servers
Hetzner Cloud
$54.56 a month, $4,006 less
Every provider on this traffic, per month, North AmericaHover or focus a row for its line items.
  1. 1Cloudflarebandwidth only$0.00
  2. 2Hetzner Cloud$54.56Hetzner has no self-service CDN, so the cached share is priced as origin egress.
  3. 3Akamai Cloud (Linode)$216Linode has no self-service CDN, so the cached share is priced as origin egress.
  4. 4Oracle Cloud$348Oracle has no self-service CDN, so the cached share is priced as origin egress.
  5. 5DigitalOcean$507
  6. 6Google Cloud$3,113
  7. 7Microsoft Azure$3,527
  8. 8AWS$4,060
Line by line, per month
ProviderInternet egressCDN deliveryCDN origin fetchTotal
Cloudflare–––$0.00
Hetzner Cloud$54.56––$54.56
Akamai Cloud (Linode)$216––$216
Oracle Cloud$348––$348
DigitalOcean–$507–$507
Google Cloud–$3,072$40.96$3,113
Microsoft Azure–$3,527–$3,527
AWS–$4,060–$4,060

How is cloud data transfer billed?

monthly = tiered(internet egress) + CDN delivery + misses × origin fetch + inter-region GB × rate + cross-AZ GB × rate + NAT gateways × hourly × 730 + NAT GB × processing rate

This page uses the same method as the Cloud Egress Cost Calculator, which explains each term and assumption in full.

Worked example

A site delivering 50 TB a month to North American and European users entirely through CloudFront, with a 92% cache hit ratio and EC2 origins.

  1. 1CDN delivery: $4,060
  2. 2Total: $4,060 a month

$4,060 a month on AWS, $48,722 a year. The cheapest cloud listed that runs servers, Hetzner Cloud, would cost $54.56 a month.

Frequently asked questions

How much does CloudFront cost per GB?

In the US, Canada, Mexico and Europe, CloudFront bills $0.085 per GB for the first 10 TB a month, $0.08 to 50 TB, $0.06 to 150 TB, $0.04 to 500 TB, then down to $0.02 above 5 PB. The first 1 TB and 10 million requests each month are free. South America starts at $0.11 and much of Asia at $0.12. Requests are billed separately and are not included here.

Does CloudFront charge to fetch from my S3 bucket or EC2 origin?

No. Data transferred from AWS origins such as S3, EC2 and load balancers to CloudFront is free, so a cache miss costs only the request to the origin. That makes CloudFront cheaper than serving the same traffic straight from EC2, where it would cost $0.09 per GB for the first 10 TB.

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