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 :
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AP: Hong Kong, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore (Asia Pacific)
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AU: Australia
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CA: Canada
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EU: Europe and Israel
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IN: India
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JP: Japan
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ME: Middle East
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SA: South America
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US: United States
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ZA: South Africa
For more information about pricing by region, see
Amazon CloudFront Pricing
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 |
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Total bytes served from CloudFront edge locations in |
|
Total bytes transferred from CloudFront edge locations to your origin in response
to
|
Total bytes transferred via HTTP from CloudFront edge locations to your origin in
response to
Total bytes transferred via HTTPS from CloudFront edge locations to your origin in
response to
|
Number of HTTP |
Number of HTTP
Number of HTTP |
Number of HTTPS |
Number of HTTPS
Number of HTTPS |
Number of HTTP |
Same as the corresponding item in your CloudFront bill |
Number of HTTPS |
Same as the corresponding item in your CloudFront bill |
Number of HTTPS |
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 |