CloudFront costs with CDN

  • Hi,

    It was suggested to me that me fees for the origin pull CDN I have set up with CloudFront did quite fit my low profile website.

    It’s a text blog: I do not serve videos. Occasional photos. About 12,000 unique visits/month.

    My costs are about $10 to $14/month.

    For the US only, last month I got 221,411 Requests, for 45GB of data transfer.

    This seems huge to me. I was wondering if anyone has any idea how to troubleshoot this? Maybe something in my settings?

    Thanks a lot,

    P.

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  • Someone may have linked your photo elsewhere an pulled the CDN image. e.g. if they linked it to Reddit or something. That could easily skyrocket your traffic. You should set up an access log though to see where it’s coming from via the Cloudfront distribution panel.

    Thread Starter Prx

    (@parneix)

    That’s interesting. Thank you for your input.

    (For others interested in this thread: enabling access log in CloudFront can be done when creating the distribution. If the distribution is already created, logging can be enabled by editing the distribution options. If one uses a custom origin (say for origin pull distribution), then one will need to provide a valid S3 bucket for the logs to be dumped in.)

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