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Amazon CloudFront Cost Breakdown

The following table shows the characteristics for Amazon CloudFront we have identified for this web application hosting architecture.

Characteristic Metric Description

Traffic Distribution

50% US

25% EU

10% HK

15% JP

Distribution of traffic across regions

Request Type

HTTP

Type of requests that customers make to the cached locations

Data Transfer Out

30.0 GB/month

1.0 MB x 30.5 days x 1,000 hits/day

The following image shows the cost breakdown for Amazon CloudFront in the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator.

The total monthly cost is the sum of the data transfer out plus the requests costs for each of the regions.

Variable Formula Calculation

Data Transfer Out for US

Monthly Volume (GB)

Traffic Distribution (%)

x Data Out Rate

--------------------------

30.00

0.50

x 0.12

------

$1.80

Data Transfer Out for EU

Monthly Volume (GB)

Traffic Distribution (%)

x Data Out Rate

--------------------------

30.00

0.25

x 0.12

------

$0.90

Data Transfer Out for HK/Singapore

Monthly Volume (GB)

Traffic Distribution (%)

x Data Out Rate

--------------------------

30.00

0.10

x 0.19

------

$0.57

Data Transfer Out for JP

Monthly Volume (GB)

Traffic Distribution (%)

x Data Out Rate

--------------------------

30.00

0.15

x 0.201

-------

$0.90

Requests for US

Request Rate

Traffic Distribution (%)

x (Monthly Volume/Object Size (per 10,000 requests))

----------------------------------------------------

$0.0075

0.50

x (30.00GB/50KB/10K)

--------------------

$0.24

Requests for EU

Request Rate

Traffic Distribution (%)

x (Monthly Volume/Object Size (per 10,000 requests))

----------------------------------------------------

$0.009

0.25

x (30.00GB/50KB/10K)

--------------------

$0.15

Requests for HK/Singapore

Request Rate

Traffic Distribution (%)

x (Monthly Volume/Object Size (per 10,000 requests))

----------------------------------------------------

$0.0075

0.10

x (30.00GB/50KB/10K)

--------------------

$0.05

Requests for JP

Request Rate

Traffic Distribution (%)

x (Monthly Volume/Object Size (per 10,000 requests))

----------------------------------------------------

$0.0095

0.15

x (30.00GB/50KB/10K)

--------------------

$0.09

We use the AWS Simple Monthly calculator to estimate this. With the calculator, the total cost for Amazon CloudFront is $4.70.