Interpreting Your AWS Bill and the AWS Usage Report for CloudFront

Your AWS bill for CloudFront service includes codes and abbreviations that might not be immediately obvious. The first column in the following table lists items that appear in your bill and explains what each means.

In addition, you can get an AWS usage report for CloudFront that contains more detail than the AWS bill for CloudFront. The second column in the table lists items that appear in the usage report and shows the correlation between bill items and usage report items.

Most codes in both columns include a two-letter abbreviation that indicates the location of the activity. In the following table, region in a code is replaced in your AWS bill and in the usage report by one of the following two-letter abbreviations :

• AP: Hong Kong, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore (Asia Pacific)

• AU: Australia

• CA: Canada

• EU: Europe and Israel

• IN: India

• JP: Japan

• ME: Middle East

• SA: South America

• US: United States

• ZA: South Africa

For more information about pricing by region, see Amazon CloudFront Pricing.

Note

This table doesn't include charges for transferring your objects from an Amazon S3 bucket to CloudFront edge locations. These charges, if any, appear in the AWS Data Transfer portion of your AWS bill.

Items in Your CloudFront Bill	Values in the Usage Type Column in the CloudFront Usage Report
region-DataTransfer-Out-Bytes Total bytes served from CloudFront edge locations in region in response to user GET and HEAD requests	region-Out-Bytes-HTTP-Static: Bytes served via HTTP for objects with TTL ≥ 3600 seconds region-Out-Bytes-HTTPS-Static: Bytes served via HTTPS for objects with TTL ≥ 3600 seconds region-Out-Bytes-HTTP-Dynamic: Bytes served via HTTP for objects with TTL < 3600 seconds region-Out-Bytes-HTTPS-Dynamic: Bytes served via HTTPS for objects with TTL < 3600 seconds region-Out-Bytes-HTTP-Proxy: Bytes returned from CloudFront to viewers via HTTP in response to DELETE, OPTIONS, PATCH, POST, and PUT requests. region-Out-Bytes-HTTPS-Proxy: Bytes returned from CloudFront to viewers via HTTPS in response to DELETE, OPTIONS, PATCH, POST, and PUT requests.
region-DataTransfer-Out-OBytes Total bytes transferred from CloudFront edge locations to your origin in response to DELETE, OPTIONS, PATCH, POST, and PUT requests. The charges include data transfer for WebSocket data from client to server.	region-Out-OBytes-HTTP-Proxy Total bytes transferred via HTTP from CloudFront edge locations to your origin in response to DELETE, OPTIONS, PATCH, POST, and PUT requests. region-Out-OBytes-HTTPS-Proxy Total bytes transferred via HTTPS from CloudFront edge locations to your origin in response to DELETE, OPTIONS, PATCH, POST, and PUT requests.
region-Requests-Tier1 Number of HTTP GET and HEAD requests	region-Requests-HTTP-Static Number of HTTP GET and HEAD requests served for objects with TTL ≥ 3600 seconds region-Requests-HTTP-Dynamic Number of HTTP GET and HEAD requests served for objects with TTL < 3600 seconds
region-Requests-Tier2-HTTPS Number of HTTPS GET and HEAD requests	region-Requests-HTTPS-Static Number of HTTPS GET and HEAD requests served for objects with TTL ≥ 3600 seconds region-Requests-HTTPS-Dynamic Number of HTTPS GET and HEAD requests served for objects with TTL < 3600 seconds
region-Requests-HTTP-Proxy Number of HTTP DELETE, OPTIONS, PATCH, POST, and PUT requests that CloudFront forwards to your origin	region-Requests-HTTP-Proxy Same as the corresponding item in your CloudFront bill
region-Requests-HTTPS-Proxy Number of HTTPS DELETE, OPTIONS, PATCH, POST, and PUT requests that CloudFront forwards to your origin	region-Requests-HTTPS-Proxy Same as the corresponding item in your CloudFront bill
region-Requests-HTTPS-Proxy-FLE Number of HTTPS DELETE, OPTIONS, PATCH, and POST requests that CloudFront forwards to your origin which were processed with field-level encryption.	region-Requests-HTTPS-Proxy-FLE Same as the corresponding item in your CloudFront bill
Invalidations The charge for invalidating objects (removing the objects from CloudFront edge locations); for more information, see Paying for File Invalidation.	Invalidations Same as the corresponding item in your CloudFront bill
SSL-Cert-Custom The charge for using an SSL certificate with a CloudFront alternate domain name such as example.com instead of using the default CloudFront SSL certificate and the domain name that CloudFront assigned to your distribution.	SSL-Cert-Custom Same as the corresponding item in your CloudFront bill