AWS CloudFront pricing

Amazon's CDN, priced per gigabyte with regional tiers and steep volume discounts that only apply once you are moving petabytes. The permanent 1 TB free tier makes it effectively free for small sites.

List prices checked

By Amazon Web Services · CDN & edge delivery

Rate card

What Amazon Web Services charges, by billing axis.

AxisPriceApplies to
Data transfer out$0.085/GB1 TB included, then metered
Free tierYes1 TB egress and 10M requests per month, always free

Source: Amazon Web Services pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.

What it costs per month

AWS CloudFront billed against three workload profiles, using the rates above. Every line shows its arithmetic.

Side project

A personal site or small app with modest traffic, a few gigabytes of assets, and one small always-on process.

$0/mo

  • 100 GB used, 1 TB included, 0 GB billable at $0.085/GB$0

Growing SaaS

A funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers.

$0/mo

  • 1 TB used, 1 TB included, 0 GB billable at $0.085/GB$0

Media-heavy site

A publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought.

$765/mo

  • 10 TB used, 1 TB included, 9 TB billable at $0.085/GB$765

AWS CloudFront vs the alternatives

The closest CDN providers on price, with the difference on cdn & edge delivery's headline axis.

ServiceEgressvs AWS CloudFrontCompare
Akamai CDN$0.085—Head to head
Azure Front Door$0.0811× cheaperHead to head
Google Cloud CDN$0.0801.1× cheaperHead to head
Fastly$0.1201.4× dearerHead to head
Gcore CDN$0.0402.1× cheaperHead to head
KeyCDN$0.0402.1× cheaperHead to head

Questions about pricing

How much does AWS CloudFront cost in 2026?
AWS CloudFront charges $0.085 per GB for data transfer out, per Amazon Web Services's published pricing page. There is also a free tier: 1 TB egress and 10M requests per month, always free. The tables above break the rate card down by axis and model it against three concrete workloads.
Does AWS CloudFront have a free tier?
Yes — 1 TB egress and 10M requests per month, always free. Check whether it is permanent or a trial before you build a budget around it; the two are often presented identically.
What does AWS CloudFront charge for egress?
$0.085 per GB, after 1 TB included in the plan. Egress is where providers in this category differ most, so it is worth checking against the alternatives before committing.
Are these AWS CloudFront prices current?
They were checked against Amazon Web Services's official pricing page and stamped with that date, which is shown at the top of this page and next to every table. Vendors change list prices without notice — the source link is there so you can confirm before you commit.

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